At tonight’s council meeting, Conservative councillors will defend Merton’s academy schools against the Labour governments attempt to curtail their freedoms to innovate and drive-up academic standards.
We will also call for a new focus to be given to Morden regeneration, hold the Labour administration to account for their failure to control the deficit in SEND education, and ask what progress they have made in attracting new jobs and companies to Merton.
Additionally, we will stand with other political parties against Labour’s proposals to curtail democracy in Merton. Labour will have to choose whether the voices of local residents will be heard, or whether they will vote to silence democratic opposition to their mismanagement of the council.
Our remaining questions will call for improvements in local roads, improving street tree planting in wards around Wimbledon town centre where these are desperately needed, whether the administration will support a national inquiry into grooming gangs, and what support the council will offer to St Helier Hospital now that the Labour government has delayed the hospital’s refurbishment into the 2030’s.
