Labour is wasting your money and not addressing the crime problems on the streets of Westminster. We spoke with the Conservative Leader of Westminster City Council, Cllr Paul Swaddle, to find out more. Paul explained,
At Labour’s Westminster City Council budget last week, I made Westminster Labour answer for their reckless spending and weak action on rising crime and declining street standards.
Westminster Labour has wasted £27 million on a failed housing contractor, self-awarded senior Labour councillors pay rises of up to 62 per cent and are projected to hike your Council Tax by 75 per cent over the next four years.
While they have been distracted by their own financial recklessness, crime in Westminster has been left to spiral unchecked.
Labour's broken record on crime and enforcement:
- Crime rates, including phone snatching, shoplifting, public disorder, robbery and anti-social behaviour, have all gone up since Labour took control in 2022.
- Westminster Labour watched on as Labour Mayor Sadiq Khan cut the Met Police by up to 1,700 officers
- Parks Police dismantled and school officers removed
- Safer Neighbourhood officers routinely pulled from local duties
- Illegal short-term lets fuelling disorder with enforcement nowhere to be seen
- Dockless bikes: over £1 million in fines promised, barely £5,000 collected
Same Old Labour manages decline as our city becomes less safe. Westminster deserves a council that tackles it.
Westminster Conservatives' are building a Plan for Safe Streets.
- A Cabinet Member for Enforcement: the first in Westminster's history, with a clear mandate to take real action on crime and disorder.
- Champion neighbourhood policing: work with local police to target crime hotspots and push back against Labour and Sadiq Khan's cuts to the Met, the Parks Police and school officers.
- Firm consequences for antisocial behaviour: consistent enforcement, not endless tolerance. When rules go unenforced, lawbreaking becomes normal.
- Crack down on illegal short-term lets: tackle the illegal short-term let epidemic that is driving neighbourhood disorder.
- Real enforcement on dockless bikes: operators fined, bikes removed. No more empty threats from a council that has failed to deliver.
People in Westminster deserve to feel safe walking home at night, using their phones on the high street and enjoying our parks without intimidation.
That requires Conservative leadership that will deliver real action instead of Labour’s complacency and excuses.
If you want Safe Streets and a council that takes crime seriously, back our plan for safe streets below.
