"I am shocked and horrified by the events in Hackney.
"The thugs behind this need to be dealt with by the police.
"Hackney has seen such progress in the last decade. We must condemn the violence. Hackney is a commnunity of diversity and tolerance and we need to make sure that these are the characteristics Hackney is known by, not the actions of some mindless, violent thugs.
"If people have grievances we must use the democratic process to resolve them."
"I have spoken to the Borough Commander, Chief Superintendent Bending who I will be meeting urgently. I will also be meeting community leaders and business representatives later today to discuss the clean up and how we rebuild the community"
If you have any thoughts and suggestions about where we go from here after such awful events please let me know
Meg
We also want to add our voices of concern and support to those affected yesterday by the actions of a violent minority intent on causing damage and illegality.
We hope that the residents of our ward, particularly those on the Pembury Estate who have suffered more than enough over the past few years can now slowly rebuild their daily lives and receive the support from the police in the days, weeks and months ahead.
We need a period of calm - of young people and trouble-makers to stay off the streets and support for the police to get their job done and bring those responsible for the outrages of yesterday to court.
We love Hackney and Hackney is better than this.
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You're joking, right?
ReplyDeleteMeg Hillier is a DISGRACE of an MP and doesn't deserve to serve this constituency...
Oh no, hang on, she doesn't serve this constituency - living in posh Barnsbury as she does, holding surgeries at ridiculous times, being responsible the for ID cards fiasco and the jailing of asylum seekers kids...
And now she's ignored the biggest public disorder for in her constituency for generations and didn't make a statement about it while it was happening cos she claims her phone wasn't working... ABSOLUTELY PATHETIC....
Anonymous,
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment. For starters, Meg does live in the constituency, so you're wrong on the basis of the personal attack on her.
In terms of her involvement, Meg has thrown herself into helping our community rebuild, she met with shop owners and community leaders yesterday and will again be with the community this morning.
You may not agree with her politics, but she does serve this constituency incredibly well - and voters agree with that.
I think we may have to agree to disagree on this.
Well, perhaps I'm wrong about her living in Barnsbury, but that's what people round here believe - maybe she should try to correct this?
ReplyDeleteShe has a terrible reputation as careerist Labour politician who was parachuted into a safe seat and cares little for her constituency - reflected in her 'too little, too late' reaction to the riots
And yes, we'll have to agree to disagree: her political record STINKS and I'm ashamed she's my MP
Personally I don't think that most people care about your first point. She has a long track record of representing the borough, including on the GLA before her election to Westminster.
ReplyDeleteAnd she wasn't parachuted in. As one of two who helped run her selection campaign, I know the number of people - including two sitting councillors - who she beat to the selection. So once again your personal attack has no basis and is really quite irrelevant and cheap. Neither of your attacks help answer the question that we all face - how do we rebuild and stop this from happening again?
Perhaps we should be concentrating on that. Hackney residents would expect that from us.
Alan