Went to Park Road Pools to launch a petition to reverse Haringey Labour’s ridiculous decision to remove the free passes for leisure for the over 65s.

You can sign the petition online at ourcampaign.org.uk/leisure

I did a photo op with Crouch End councillor David Winskill, and two older ladies who are incandescent (as are the three hundred who attended a meeting at Tottenham Leisure Centre last week) about Haringey Labour’s budget cut of £52,000 removing the free passes that our elderly residents currently have.

This is nuts. It’s a small sum compared to the huge Labour waste, and yet the activity, social engagement and exercise that these older residents get from using their passes to go to classes or swim or whatever is a wonderfully productive investment – not to mention the enjoyment it brings – as it helps people keep fit and happy and socialised.

My Liberal Democrat colleagues identified £3million waste in the Haringey Council budget last week. Cut that waste – not the leisure passes!

In other local news – I met the minister to put the case for fair funding of Haringey’s schools, as reported over on my website.