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.Diane Abbott Writes |
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| . |  We can all dream. And even a humble Labour backbencher occasionally dreams of being prime minister. And what I would do. Forget international relations and forget the interests of Great Britain as a whole. This is what I would do for Stoke Newington if I were for prime minister for 100 days. I would: stop the privatisation of the London Underground; build the Chelsea-Hackney Line (so that at long last we would have a tube station in Dalston); make the trains stop, at least, every five minutes at Stoke Newington Station; adorn Stoke Newington Station with hanging baskets and beautifully planted flowerbeds; put a station-master on the station; introduce the 393 bus route from Stoke Newington to Highbury Corner. Bring back the Stoke Newington Borough Council; give it proper funding so it would not have to make cuts and could deliver basic services like keeping the streets clean; give it a little money over and above (so that it could do all the extravagant extras like a total refurbishment of Stoke Newington Library and new animals for Clissold Park Zoo). Do up every council estate in Stoke Newington and bring back live-in caretakers in every block; have a 'Stoke Newington in Bloom' contest and encourage people to plant flowers everywhere; have special 'lifter wardens' patrolling the streets who could levy on the spot fines on people dropping litter and close down shops that didn't take out proper commercial contracts to have their garbage taken away (and just leave it festering on the pavements). Make Stoke Newington Police Station recruit more local men and women as police officers; put more bobbies on the beat (particularly at night in some of the quieter back streets); bring in bobbies on bikes; have rent controls on Stoke Newington Church Street to stop it being taken over by expensive restaurants. Create more facilities for young people (including a state of the art cybercafé); give a big grant to the Stoke Newington Festival (so that it could be even bigger and better); build a new museum (so that the Chalmers Bequest of paintings and sculpture bequeathed to the people of Stoke Newington in the last century could be properly displayed instead of being kept in storage where no one can see them). Clean up Stoke Newington Town Hall; make Stoke Newington a People's Republic and, last but not least, I would eat dinner at a different restaurant in Stoke Newington every week and work it all off one of the area's gyms.
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