Here’s the letter I wrote in response to Councillor De Souza’s letter about Highgate library. It’s been published in the Camden New Journal this week: Dear Editor I am loath to, once again, write in about Highgate Library for fear of sounding like a broken record. However, it appears that Councillor De Souza has misunderstood [...]

In response to Councillor Don Williams’ letter in the local papers, I have responded and clarified the level of funding that is being cut from Camden’s overall budget. You can read my letter here: Dear Editor It is no secret that local councillors are making extremely difficult decisions on the future of services in Camden. [...]

As you may know, I’ve been active in my horror at the scope and scale of the future Tory/Lib Dem cuts, and I was one of 130 labour councillors who signed a letter today to The Times on the subject. If you didn’t get hold of a copy of the paper, here’s the letter I [...]

Happy New Year to everyone! It’s been a while since I’ve posted here due to being insanely busy, but I have been keeping up my Tweets (Follow @tulipsiddiq)! Pick up today’s Evening Standard to see me fighting for Camden! If you missed the paper, you can read the article here: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23921760-our-share-of-games-cash-is-too-small-to-cover-costs-claims-eurostar-borough.do I hope you also [...]

Just days after the new Labour leader Ed Milliband called for an optimistic approach to politics, Sayeeda Warsi sinks to negative mudslinging and the best example of pessimistic politics we could hope for. Pessimistic politics preaches that things can’t be better, and that things can’t change. This breed of politics plays on fear and manipulates [...]