- Question by: Tony Arbour
- Meeting date: 29 January 2003
You have been in control for two years. LFEPA has been established for two years. You knew that this problem existed. You knew that these difficulties were there. In effect, you're telling us that you feel that there was no time when you could have instituted these changes. You have used what I consider to be a most inappropriate phrase, saying you don't want to "inflame" the situation. The truth of the matter is that to ordinary Londoners, it looks as though you are appeasing the firefighters, and even when the strike is resolved, it will have been demonstrated that...