Author Archives: Phil

Sahota’s campaign ignores the rules again

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Phil

The campaign to get Onkar Sahota elected as an Assembly Member has been previously criticised by Mark Wallace for misusing public resources (in this case Parliament). Wallace reprinted an e-mail regarding a Sahota fundraiser sent by Virendra Sharma MP’s researcher … Continue reading →

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Rubbish Ealing fiasco

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Phil

Last night’s extraordinary council meeting ended up being not very illuminating. Labour apologised and agreed that the new waste contract in Ealing was a fiasco but would not go as far as to accept that it was a disaster. I … Continue reading →

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This Rubbish Council

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Phil

This Conservative group press release was published today: At a special Full Council Meeting (May 8), called by the Conservatives, they demanded the return of a first class waste and collection service for the people of the Borough and called … Continue reading →

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Boris wins but Barnes loses

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Phil

Commiserations to ex-GLA member for Ealing and Hillingdon, Richard Barnes who lost his seat this afternoon to Labour’s Onkar Sahota. There were 3,110 votes in it or 1.9%. Mayor Boris Johnson had a much better time of it in Ealing … Continue reading →

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Vote Blue Alien

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Phil

The Labour campaign (it stopped being the Ken Livingstone campaign a couple of weeks ago when Labour realised that Livingstone was a liability to his own campaign) has been awful. They have made promises they can’t keep and failed to … Continue reading →

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Livingstone’s great big bus fare lie

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Phil

A major plank of Livingstone’s election platform is that “A single bus fare is now up 50%”, see page 19 of London Elects “The Candidates” publication. The recent history of TfL fares is provided by the Londonist blog. The bus … Continue reading →

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Labour fares nonsense

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Phil

Last night I had a bit of a debate on Twitter with Labour councillor Hitesh Tailor on the subject of public transport fares although Tailor’s debating technique is limited to spewing out one-sided, unreferenced factoids. Transport for London’s (TfL’s) fares … Continue reading →

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Unison baulks at council’s £1.5 million terms and conditions saving

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Phil

It is interesting to see the Unison union pushing back hard on the council’s ever so modest proposals to shave £1.5 million off staff costs by renegotiating staff terms and conditions, see Ealing & Acton Gazette. Ealing’s terms and conditions … Continue reading →

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Labour lying about Ealing Hospital

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Phil

This morning the Ealing Labour councillors were out in force in the rain at Ealing Hospital with Ken Livingstone, Andy Burnham, the Labour health spokesman, and Virendra Sharma, MP for the Southall half of the Ealing Southall constituency. They were … Continue reading →

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What is normal?

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Phil

Council leader Julian Bell says that our rubbish and re-cycling service “is now almost back to normal”. He is kidding himself I fear. We are now into the fourth week of the new service, it started on 1st April. It … Continue reading →

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