Labour is destroying London’s nightlife

As a teenager back in the early 1960s, on Friday afternoon I would head down to Soho after school with friends. Our sanctuary was Les Enfants Terrible in Dean Street, a heaving bar and dark basement dance floor. With luck, we found girls who came along later that evening to any of the dozen other Soho music clubs, not least Le Kilt or the 100 Club in Wardour Street. That was the beginning of the unforgettable Swinging Sixties. Fifty years later, Soho’s wonderful nightlife has been destroyed by Westminster Council, the Mayor of London and the Labour government.

Welcome to the Twilight Twenties. Proof of Labour’s deliberate destruction of London’s music scene was the recent publication of Westminster Council’s ‘Draft Westminster After Dark Strategy Summary’. Filled with meaningless guff, the Labour councillors’ malice is exposed in paragraph ED6. The old-minded men and women elected to govern the borough want to move all of Soho’s night life to The Strand and Victoria Street, that soulless jungle of glass and concrete.