David Gold and Conservative Council candidate Dr Arujuna Sivananthan conducting the Blackheath Rail Survey to discover the impact of the cut in train services by South Eastern trains on passengers using Blackheath Train Station. Dr Arujuna Sivananthan slammed the reduction in train services as being the result of an "indolent Labour government which pays scant regard to the welfare of the residents in South East London and the self-absorbed Labour run Greenwich Council whose only aspiration is to retain power at the expense of residents".