Category Archives: Ealing and Northfield

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

I have blogged about Nick Grant, the branch secretary for the Ealing branch of the teachers’ union NUT, before here. In a surprising unforced error (see answer to question below) the council has admitted that at a time when every … Continue reading →

When the full council signed off the budget in February 2011 it contained a promise to cut union facility time, paid time to allow union reps to do union business, by 20% in 2012/13 (see page 178 of the budget … Continue reading →

Ealing Council has failed to make any progress over the last year in cutting the cost of its senior management team. In fact it has gone up by 2.2%. The Labour council has tried to dramatise the magnitude of the … Continue reading →