![]() ![]() Gilligan and Loakes were together at the opening of Waltham Forest's "mini-holland" scheme in 2015. “Why become a Labour MP if you don’t want to change anything,” chided Gilligan, who said that changing the public realm, such as adding protected cycleways and implementing Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, “really does work, and it works really quickly, and it’s popular.”Ĭlyde Loakes, deputy leader, Waltham Forest Borough Council, is one of the political leaders praised. I remember arguing with a London Labour MP who was complaining that we wanted to take some parking spaces out, and I said to her, ‘look, you’ve got a majority of like 26,000 or something so why not sacrifice a few dozen of those votes to make the place better for everyone?’” “People in the Labour party go into politics to change the world,” claimed Gilligan, “so it was depressing how many Labour politicians saw themselves as defenders of the status quo in London. Gilligan didn’t name the London MP, but he likely meant Rupa Huq, the Labour MP for Ealing Central and Acton. (Johnson was mayor between 20.)Īs well as ripping into Burnham, Gilligan criticized a Labour MP for lacking courage in supporting active travel measures in her constituency. Gilligan was also a transport advisor to City Hall in Johnson’s second term as Mayor of London. Gilligan was a special advisor to Johnson from 2019 but left when the then Prime Minister was ejected from 10 Downing Street earlier this year. “That is the level of cowardice and feebleness that we’re dealing with.” Active travel
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