Let’s do this, @EalingLabour! 🌹
Couldn’t be prouder of this formidable set of candidates, who’ve done such incredible work representing their communities over the last four years.
Thank you to the people of Ealing for allowing us to lead our borough.
Tomorrow we hope to keep your faith in us.
...#OnYourSide🌹
A fantastic response in Hanwell Broadway today with the formidable @EalingLabour team.
So glad every Labour member, activist, MP and Metro Mayor are spending their weekend focussed on knocking on doors to get out the Labour vote! 🌹
🌞 A sunny evening in Ealing for the local elections!🌹
Paul, Ian and Sinéad are out in Northfields being fantastic advocates for their community -- full of energy and heart.
Huge thanks to Ealing Southall MP @deirdrecostigan and all our members for another energetic canvass.
Today is a historic day for the 131,863 renters in Ealing.
With a Labour government, we’ve ended no-fault evictions, and strengthened the rights of renters.
A Labour council will now have so much more power to enforce these rights and raise standards.
Nice weather and good conversations with Walpole residents. @EalingLabour ON YOUR SIDE! @BlerinaHashani @MsQuansah @TariqMahmood
Three great sessions today across #Hanwell and #Northolt Great to be joined by London Assembly colleague @EllyBakerAM on the #LabourDoorstep 🌹
25k steps and lots of people saying yes to a Labour Council that's #OnYourSide
Proud of what we have delivered.
Excited for what is still to come.
@EalingLabour will always be on your side, and deliver on the things we say we will do.
Vote Labour on May 7th 🌹
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.
