Westminster Labour call for David Cameron to denounce slap-up dinner on the rates for Conservative Councillors who lost £17 million investing in now-failed Icelandic Banks. Labour Councillors in Westminster have blasted Westminster Conservatives for going ahead with a £23,000 Black-Tie Civic Dinner at Lancaster House, St James's on Sunday 22nd March. Labour Councillors say that sp...

Westminster Conservatives have axed 1,020 jobs over the past two years, following a 'Made in Westminster' financial disaster in 2009/10 which saw the Council's parking income fall by £20 million and a £60 million cuts programme instigated by the Council following the election of the Conservative-led Government in May 2010. So far the Council has been through five phases ...

Meanwhile, Conservatives claim they have no money but announce £40 million spending on seven West End road projects. Westminster Conservatives have axed a proposed new £9.2 million Adult Education Centre in Moxon Street, Marylebone claiming that they do not have the money yet, on the same day, they announced a new £40 million plan for seven road improvement schemes, including a n...

Shirley Porter's "Homes for Votes" scandal returns to haunt Westminster Conservatives Westminster Conservatives have spent over £14 million buying back nearly 60 former Council flats sold by the Council in the 1980's, including 8 flats sold by former Conservative Leader, Shirley Porter, as part of the Council's illegal Designated Sales "Homes for Votes" policy. The former Coun...

A £20 million hole in the Council budget, £17 million at risk in now-failed Icelandic banks, and 300 staff made redundant - but it is 'business as usual' for Westminster Conservatives as invitations go out to the 'great and the good' for the Annual Civic Dinner at the The Northumberland, in Northumberland Avenue, which is costing Westminster Council Tax payers &poun...

Westminster Council Tax payers will have to pay another £37,000 so that that Westminster Conservatives can hire top City accountants, KPMG, to tell them about all the mistakes that were made when the Council invested £17 million in now-failed Icelandic banks earlier this year. KPMG have been hired by Westminster City Council to review the Council's "investment strategy and interna...

Westminster Conservatives are increasing charges for meals on wheels by 10.6 percent and charges for home care for the elderly and vulnerable will increase by 6 percent in order to raise an extra £100,000 to plug the gap caused by the Council’s £17 million loss in now-failed Icelandic Banks. And similar increases are planned for the next two years as the Conservatives look for wa...

Despite Westminster Council losing £17 million on investments in now-failed Icelandic Banks, giving 300 staff the sack and struggling with a £20 million hole in the Council's finances, Westminster Conservatives have spent nearly £1 million on the Council's website since 2008. According to a Freedom of Information request by business internet marketplace PeoplePerHour.co...

Westminster City Council has resorted to selling old West End street signs on eBay for £10,000 in the Conservatives' latest attempt to fill the £17 million "black hole" in the Council's finances caused by investing Council Tax payers' money in now-failed Icelandic Banks. Last month, the Conservatives ordered staff to re-use old envelopes as a way of saving money at the r...

Labour Councillors have accused of Westminster Conservatives of attempting to 'buy' victory at the next General Election after 'The Independent' revealed that the Conservatives in Westminster North have received donations of more than £300,000 in the past two years, three times more than Labour. According to The Independent on 27th February: "The Tories in Westminster Nor...