Agenda item

10.24pm – Councillor Bora Kwon moved, seconded by Councillor Nikos Souslous, the special motion in their names:

“The Council notes that over the last 12 year the Conservative government has caused immeasurable damage to the residents of Hammersmith and Fulham and the entire United Kingdom. This includes:

• The damaging programme of austerity that has left public services on their knees
• A catastrophic Brexit that has undermined trade, soured relations with our closest neighbours and reduced British influence globally
• A decline in support for the Union
• The muddled, mishandled response to the Covid pandemic, including placing covid-positive residents into care homes
• Degrading the office of Prime Minister through a series of scandals, including holding a flurry of parties at 10 Downing Street during Covid lockdowns and the failure to deal with improper conduct by senior Conservative MPs
• An acute housing crisis leaving millions in overcrowded conditions and younger generations unable to enter the housing market
• Surges in hospital, GP and ambulance waiting times alongside an increase in health inequality
• Record levels of sewage flowing into our oceans and rivers and suffocating restraints on the expansion of onshore wind power
• A justice system in crisis, with rising crime and fewer police, prosecutions and convictions
• Mismanagement of the economy, which has seen anaemic growth, real terms reductions in salaries, the devaluation of sterling, a cost-of-living crisis and spiralling mortgage and rental payments

The Conservative Party has seen four Prime Ministers since 2016, each presenting a different flavour of the same failed approaches.

The Council therefore calls on Councillors and MPs of all parties to put our country and our community first and demand a general election so this dying government can be retired before it does any more damage.”

Speeches on the motion were made by Councillors Kwon, Souslous, and Taylor (who made her maiden speech) (for the Administration).

The guillotine fell at 10.40pm.

Councillor Kwon then made a short speech winding up the debate before the motion was put to the vote.

FOR                        32

AGAINST                10

NOT VOTING         1

The motion was declared CARRIED.

10.42pm – RESOLVED

The Council notes that over the last 12 year the Conservative government has caused immeasurable damage to the residents of Hammersmith and Fulham and the entire United Kingdom. This includes:

• The damaging programme of austerity that has left public services on their knees
• A catastrophic Brexit that has undermined trade, soured relations with our closest neighbours and reduced British influence globally
• A decline in support for the Union
• The muddled, mishandled response to the Covid pandemic, including placing covid-positive residents into care homes
• Degrading the office of Prime Minister through a series of scandals, including holding a flurry of parties at 10 Downing Street during Covid lockdowns and the failure to deal with improper conduct by senior Conservative MPs
• An acute housing crisis leaving millions in overcrowded conditions and younger generations unable to enter the housing market
• Surges in hospital, GP and ambulance waiting times alongside an increase in health inequality
• Record levels of sewage flowing into our oceans and rivers and suffocating restraints on the expansion of onshore wind power
• A justice system in crisis, with rising crime and fewer police, prosecutions and convictions
• Mismanagement of the economy, which has seen anaemic growth, real terms reductions in salaries, the devaluation of sterling, a cost-of-living crisis and spiralling mortgage and rental payments

The Conservative Party has seen four Prime Ministers since 2016, each presenting a different flavour of the same failed approaches.

The Council therefore calls on Councillors and MPs of all parties to put our country and our community first and demand a general election so this dying government can be retired before it does any more damage.