Phil Taylor

I was pretty certain last night when Nick Clegg was challenging David Cameron to confirm or deny his “80% of immigrants come from the EU” claim that Clegg was talking nonsense. Apparently it is more like 40%. Clegg was using some Economist numbers that talk about foreign born workers.
So get this, [...]

I am sorry but the least credible thing proposed during this evening’s leaders’ debate was Nick Clegg’s emergency deficit summit.
He proposed gathering all of the parties’ chancellors and vice chancellors along with the Bank of England and the Financial Services Authority (FSA). I am sorry but this is 9/10ths nonsense.
First [...]

The LibDems are well known for being the most appalling liars in election leaflets.
I have not seen any LibDem leaflets in Northfield so I can’t comment on them here but I have been helping in Elthorne where I found this Elthorne Focus No. 10 April 2010.
As is fairly typical in LibDem [...]

I hope that Nick Clegg’s set dressers cleared up after themselves when they filmed last night’s party political broadcast on behalf of the LibDems – to make their point the LibDems made the Houses of Parliament and a couple of other attractive cityscapes look a mess. The rubbish, like just about everything else about [...]

No really. Over the last week or so the Ealing Southall Labour team have been delivering a leaflet to the constituency. Only they are doing a poor job. Last week I was in Lawrence Road, Ealing Park Gardens and Birkbeck Road delivering a leaflet to that part of the Northfield ward. [...]

The Mail on Sunday are reporting today that the FCO have just spent £80K updating their logo. It is the kind of story that reassures you that government spending can be controlled without culling teachers and nurses. Sure we will all feel sorry for the logo designers having to go hungry but not [...]

I am afraid you will not find me doing much blogging over the next 10 days. Any spare minute I have will be spent knocking on doors in Northfield. I won’t embarass the lady by naming her but I met an ex-Labour candidate from Ealing who resigned in 2006 yesterday. She said [...]

I don’t think that “Three jobs Nigel” is a phrase that will catch on not having any rhyme or alliteration. It is still worth asking though what is LibDem candidate for Ealing Southall, Nigel Bakhai, playing at?
It is not unusual for councillors who are standing as parliamentary candidates to stand for both [...]

You may remember this slogan from the Tories at the last local elections in 2006. In Ealing we can truly say that we have delivered on that promise – or at least our brilliant residents have.
At last night’s council meeting Cllr Clifford Pile asked the Cabinet Member for Environment and Street Services, [...]

A couple of weeks ago the Telegraph published a letter from me on the jobs tax – yet more increases in Employer’s NI proposed by the Labour government and opposed by the Conservatives.
Yesterday at full council Cllr Joanna Dabrowska asked the council leader Jason Stacey what the cost of Gordon Brown’s jobs tax [...]