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Bob Crowe (Supplementary) [21]

  • Question by: Bob Neill
  • Meeting date: 16 July 2002
Mr Crowe has made no bones of being perfectly open about the fact that he is a member of the Socialist Alliance. It is reported that your three closest advisors are members of the Socialist Alliance. How many more Marxists do you intend to appoint to key positions in London during the remaining two years of your mayoralty?

Bob Crowe (Supplementary) [20]

  • Question by: Bob Neill
  • Meeting date: 16 July 2002
Do you not think that you, as Mayor of London, have a slightly higher responsibility to speak up for Londoners, and to send a signal that it is unacceptable?

Bob Crowe (Supplementary) [19]

  • Question by: Bob Neill
  • Meeting date: 16 July 2002
You could very easily say, "If you cripple London with strikes in future, you will not have a place at the board table of Transport for London". What is the problem about that?

Bob Crowe (Supplementary) [18]

  • Question by: Bob Neill
  • Meeting date: 16 July 2002
According to the City Corporation, whose leader serves in your Advisory Cabinet, that strike cost business in London approximately £100 million. It also inconvenienced hundreds of thousands of decent, hard-working Londoners. Do you not think you should put them first before your militant friends?

Bob Crowe (Supplementary) [17]

  • Question by: Bob Neill
  • Meeting date: 16 July 2002
On Thursday, Bob Crowe said, "I think we will be laying down more dates for industrial action". In the light of that, do you intend to dismiss him from the Board of TfL?

Bob Crowe (Supplementary) [16]

  • Question by: Bob Neill
  • Meeting date: 16 July 2002
Why did you say that there should be no more strikes, Ken?

Bob Crowe (Supplementary) [15]

  • Question by: Bob Neill
  • Meeting date: 16 July 2002
Why, therefore, did you say in the Mayor's Question Time on 17 October 2001, "There should be no more strikes"?

Bob Crowe (Supplementary) [14]

  • Question by: Bob Neill
  • Meeting date: 16 July 2002
You said, in answer to Members on 8 November 2000, it was a requirement of all candidates to the TfL Board that they place the interest of passengers as their top priority. Do you think Mr Crowe placed the interest of passengers as his top priority on Wednesday and Thursday of last week, when he brought the Tube out on strike?

Bob Crowe (Supplementary) [13]

  • Question by: Bob Neill
  • Meeting date: 16 July 2002
And that, I take it, would be consistent with the view expressed by your economic adviser in 1974 when he called for armed workers militias? Is that the sort of people you surround yourself with, Ken?

Bob Crowe (Supplementary) [12]

  • Question by: Bob Neill
  • Meeting date: 16 July 2002
Is it perhaps because you need their political support that you have consistently, throughout your mayoralty, failed to condemn industrial disruption on the Tube?
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