A refugee herself, Cllr Hashani proudly announces that Ealing has achieved accreditation as a Borough of Sanctuary.
Ealing Young Labour hosted our first meeting last night.
Great to speak to so many young members and discuss plans for the future.
🫶 Happy International Women's Day!
#IWD #InternationalWomensDay #AccelerateAction
Out in force with @EalingLabour to support our friends in sunny Bristol ahead of the West of England Mayoral election.
Great to see @damienegan on his home turf too!
London needs growth. Jobs growth. Opportunity growth.
But we need to do it differently to the ways we’ve done it before.
It starts by backing ideas, innovation, creativity and industry.
And it’s happening already in West London.
Me in @CityAM
West London has high-growth businesses, great transport links and brownfield sites ripe for development. No wonder it's top of the Mayor's list for...
Cllr Steve Donnelly moves @EalingLabour’s 4th budget during my leadership of our administration, and the first under a Labour Government in Ealing since 2005.
Ealing Labour delivers, and we will continue to get the job done. #OnYourSide🌹
Spoke this evening at @EalingCouncil Full council about the delivery @EalingLabour is achieving with our budget this year for Northolt Mandeville alongside ward colleagues @NortholtMLabour
Tonight I spoke in support of our Budget Strategy @EalingCouncil Full Council meeting.
@EalingLabour has set a responsible and balanced budget so we can continue to deliver for our residents. 🌹
Since our last manifesto in real terms, successive Tory governments cut another £77.5m from our budget.
This rounds the loss to the council budget to £185m since 2010. If that makes you as angry as us, it’s time you saw red. Join us in our campaign for a Labour Government to deliver fairer funding for Brent, led by Keir Starmer as our Prime Minister.
Now more than ever, every £1 of your Council Tax has to stretch further and further to keep essential services running. You might not see these services, but they are a lifeline to many; protecting our vulnerable young people and supporting our older residents to live with independence and dignity.
Since 2010, the council has seen two thirds of its core budget cut by central government, at the same time as requiring in law every local authority to set a balanced budget. We have had to take many difficult decisions, always protecting those who are most vulnerable.
The last few decades have seen a huge shift in the delivery of public services to the private sector. Too much of this is done at high costs and low quality. Whether in social housing, recycling or adult social care, we are already seeing private companies handing back contracts or going under, with local government having to step in and pick up the pieces.
Our borough is growing older, and families continue to face huge pressures, with breakdowns and homelessness on the rise. The increasing need of the most vulnerable in our borough must be met, which means we spend the overwhelming majority of our resources supporting those who need support.
Caused by the disastrous budget of Liz Truss and the Tories, the cost of living crisis is impacting every family in the borough. The everyday prices of shopping, energy, rent and mortgages are running at record high levels. With higher prices for everyone, including the council, there is simply less money to do good things.
The events of 4,000 miles away in Minnesota brought new focus on brutality and violence directed toward Black, Asian and other Minority Ethnic communities. But structural inequality and racism are far from new, and have long been with us. We know where the largest inequalities exist in our borough and we cannot wait to take meaningful action to end them.
Global temperatures continue to climb, poor air quality continues to kill and London is seeing an increasing number of extreme weather events. With global events having extremely local consequences, sustaining our environment and our economy is now more urgent than ever before.
Since 2010, we’ve saved the average family £2,500, by keeping council tax either frozen or as low as possible and we will continue to do so. We’ll also ensure those on the lowest pay are protected.
After a decade of cuts from the government, the police have struggled to deal with antisocial behaviour and violent crime. We will campaign for the powers we need to enforce the rules to make our neighbourhoods safer, punish rule breakers, and ensure no one is above the law.
Coronavirus has hit people’s incomes hard, so we will secure new well-paid jobs, support people back into work after lockdown and deliver more support for small and local businesses to thrive.
London’s affordable housing crisis means we need to do everything we can to build more homes that cost no more than a third of household incomes, stop people being priced out of local housing, and build many more new council homes for rent.
Everyone agrees we need to tackle the climate crisis, protect the environment and do even more to make our borough cleaner and greener, and make so much more of our borough open and accessible for people to enjoy.
COVID-19 has shown clearly that the government should fix social care, so it is not left to council taxpayers. In the meantime, we’ll support 3,000 of the most vulnerable residents get the care they need in their own homes and deliver the London Living Wage for all care workers.
Ealing Labour currently has over 50 elected councillors across Ealing, representing you in 21 different wards.
Together, we are building a borough that works for
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and be part of the change, you want to see.
Speaking to the residents is an important part of what we do, you could help us to understand the views and needs of the people of Ealing.
We are always looking to promote the work we do, and spread the word about of future plans. You could help us deliver leaflet with this information.
We also like to reach our to residents by phone. You could help us make these phone calls, with full training given.
