streathamcommoner: Happy New Year

Monday 1 January 2007

Just to wish everyone a peaceful and prosperous 2007.

Councillor Mark Bennett: I was re-elected as a Lambeth Labour councillor in May 2006, following a by-election win in October 2005. I'm 39 and represent Streatham South ward, together with two Labour colleagues. Labour regained control of Lambeth in May, after four years in opposition to a Lib Dem Tory alliance. After two years as Cabinet Member for Safer Communities in the Labour administration, I spent a year as Cabinet Member for Culture, Leisure and Sport. I'm now Cabinet Member for Safer and Stronger Communities. I've lived in Streatham for ten years and I'm proud of my family's roots in London and the South East. I'm also a governor of Dunraven School in Streatham. I joined the Labour Party in the early 1990s, when John Smith was leader, and I was a student in Stoke on Trent.