Category Archives: Ealing and Northfield

Every year the one of the most eagerly awaited cabinet papers is that laying out the annual road resurfacing programme. Labour has halved this budget, this year it will spend £3.5 million, or about £10 per head of population. You … Continue reading →

Last night at the Overview and Scrutiny Committee (OSC) we spent an hour looking at the council’s budget. This is due to go to cabinet next Tuesday and then will be signed off by the full council on 28th. Council … Continue reading →

I have been tracking Labour’s so-called Housing Commission, see here and here. At the last council meeting on 31st January I asked the portfolio holder, Cllr Hitesh Tailor, for an update. His written answer (question 15) is here: I would … Continue reading →

If Julian Bell, as Labour group leader, signs off press releases that are lies at some point you have to conclude that Bell is a liar too. The latest press release from Ealing Labour tries to stitch together the odd … Continue reading →

Another non-performer on the Labour cabinet in Ealing is Cllr Jasbir Anand who has the Health and Adult Services portfolio. Although the council does not directly provide health services it is responsible for health promotion and adult social services and … Continue reading →

Cllr Hitesh Tailor, the councillor that Labour has put in charge of housing in the borough, is complaining about his local MP. Tailor is also employed as a housing officer by Islington so you might imagine he would be across … Continue reading →

Cllr Patricia Walker is Labour’s Children and Young People portfolio holder. Most councils spend about half of all their revenue on children and in Ealing’s case that is about £500 million a year. It is a big job and she … Continue reading →

The tweeting Labour cabinet members in Ealing were notably quiet during tonight’s cabinet meeting. Maybe they have come to the realisation that it is unseemly to be diddling with their smartphones during public meetings? The most important report tonight was … Continue reading →

The council’s new capital programme, outlined here, makes it clear that Labour is going to maintain the system of ward forums set up under the previous Tory administration. The new programme provides two more years of capital funding for 2014/15 … Continue reading →

Labour’s Bassam Mahfouz is evidently pleased with his appearance on the Sunday Politics TV programme in Sunday, click here and move the slider to 44:20. Cllr Mafouz mentioned LED lighting. But on top of that we are looking at moving … Continue reading →