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745:, dramatising the principal events of Shirley Porter's time as leader at Westminster City Council, council leader Colin Barrow apologised unreservedly to all those affected by the "gerrymandering" policy. He criticised Shirley Porter by name for the first time and added that her actions were "the opposite of the council's policies today".
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homeless people outside
Westminster, the Building Stable Communities programme switched to moving homeless people to safe wards in the city, where their votes would have less impact. In 1989 over 100 homeless families were removed from hostels in marginal wards and placed in the Hermes and Chantry Point
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called the Homes for Votes scandal Porter's "biggest, stupidest and most cynical act of corruption". Diski, without justifying Porter's behaviour, accused many of Porter's critics of "snobbery and an undeclared racism". She cited the "echo of something more than simple class snobbery in the judgments
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announced that an agreement had been reached with Porter for a payment of £12.3 million in settlement of the debt. The decision was appealed by Labour members on the council and district auditor Les Kidner began another investigation. The ensuing report, issued in March 2007, accepted the position of
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Porter became a magistrate before entering local politics. Looking back at that time, she said "I remember my great lack of confidence, that I came in there and for the first time and I wasn't somebody's daughter, somebody's wife, somebody's mother. That's a very very mind-boggling feeling." In 1974,
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with a majority that dropped from 26 to four. Fearing that they would eventually lose control unless there was a permanent change in the social composition of the borough, Porter instituted a policy known as
Building Stable Communities as a cover for implementing secretive projects designed to bring
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residents were troubled by the growing sex industry. Between 1965 and 1982, the number of sex shops had risen from 31 to 65. In 1982 Porter became
Chairman of the General Purposes Committee and set to work in alleviating the issue. Porter and her aides soon proceeded with a fact-finding mission. The
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September 1980 when her department of Highways and Works faced a £1 million budget cut; "I will resign in the event that they cut our basic services and that means keeping our frontline services and a clean and litter-free city." In 1981, Porter launched "Operation Spring
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Foundation, which has funded projects in Israel and the UK. Tel Aviv University has received funds to establish buildings and projects including the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics, the Shirley and Leslie Porter School
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unanimously reinstated it in 2001, with a surcharge of £27m levied on Porter. Including interest, the surcharge now stood at £43.3 million. In Israel, Porter transferred substantial parts of her great wealth to other members of her family and into secret trusts in an effort to avoid the charge, and
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and Mill Hill
Cemetery) for £1 in order to save on maintenance costs. As well as the three cemeteries, the sale included three lodge-houses, a flat, a crematorium and 12 acres of prime development land. Within weeks of the sale it became apparent that the new owners had no interest in the upkeep of
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in Soho would be limited to 20. The legislation also ensured that any successful applicants would require a minimum of six months residency in the UK as well as a clean police record. It was also legislated that sex shops would have to conceal their practice with blinds. Other measures included the
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described Porter as "fast winning a reputation as
Paddington's Mrs Mops". She also mobilised schoolchildren in her campaign, raising brooms over their shoulders like rifles at the Lord Mayor's Show and singing "Pick up your litter and put it in the bin". By 1978, Porter had been elected as chairman
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Yardley. Both reports were critical of the council, with the local government ombudsman finding the council guilty of maladministration. In 1992 the Council agreed to buy back the cemeteries for over £4 million, not including the valuable land and buildings that had been part of the original
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Building Stable Communities policy had been illegal, and ordered Porter and five others to pay the costs of the illegal policy, which were calculated as £31.6 million. This judgment was upheld by the High
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Building Stable Communities policy was the removal of homeless voters and others who lived in hostels and were perceived less likely to vote Conservative, such as students and nurses, from the City of Westminster. As the City Council found it more and more difficult to move
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Porter's successive litter campaigns included the "Cleaner London Campaign", followed by the "Cleaner City Initiative" in 1980. Activities included the deployment of additional street sweepers in particularly squalor-ridden areas of Westminster for a 2–3 week period. Porter also increased the
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and I said, 'My God, somebody ought to do something about this,' and my friend said 'Why don't you?'" Despite sitting on the Highways and Works Committee, which was responsible for street cleaning and refuse collection, Porter did not mention litter again until late 1976 following a visit to
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in the safe Labour ward of Harrow Road. These blocks contained a dangerous form of asbestos, and should have either been cleaned up or demolished a decade before, but had remained in place due to funding disputes between the City Council and the by now abolished
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regime but continued "one thing they must be given credit for is the cleanliness you find everywhere... I should hate to think that we need such a repressive regime to get our cities cleaned to their standards."
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Shirley Lowe, Porter explained that litter was the reason why she had first entered local politics in 1974. She said: "I was walking along the street with a friend one day and it was
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a year in the key wards in the belief that home-owners would be more likely to vote Conservative than council tenants. The properties were sold at discounted prices.
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Ware, John (8 October 1994). "The brass neck of Dame Shirley Porter".
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Nothing Like a Dame: The Scandals of Shirley Porter
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1957:English people of Polish-Jewish descent
1066:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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486:and Moscow. On her return she told the
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309:. She is the daughter and heiress of
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1185:Rayner, Jay (28 February 1999).
1060:"Porter, Sir Leslie (1920–2005)"
519:Clean", a cleaning blitz of the
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1836:"Friday Play, Shirleymander"
1804:Diski, Jenny (25 May 2006).
1617:"Friday Play: Shirleymander"
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1852:. The Playground Theatre.
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1187:"Dame Shirley of Tel Aviv"
1157:. BBC Radio 4. 3 May 1991.
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1997:English environmentalists
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303:Westminster City Council
97:Westminster City Council
2047:Homes for votes scandal
1992:English philanthropists
1880:Hosken, Andrew (2006).
1442:"Looking For Shirley".
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1962:Israeli Ashkenazi Jews
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1883:Nothing Like a Dame
1806:"Be mean and nasty"
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825:Nothing Like a Dame
698:Looking for Shirley
540:In the late 1970s,
529:Desert Island Discs
430:she was elected to
350:Tel Aviv University
1816:on 15 October 2007
1723:. 29 November 2020
1210:The London Gazette
850:In November 2009,
680:with her husband.
501:Paddington Mercury
488:Paddington Mercury
453:by prime minister
378:East End of London
307:Conservative Party
244:Sarah (Cissie) Fox
1912:978-1-84275-179-4
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1780:by Andrew Hosken"
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