Happy Diwali to all those celebrating across the UK, I wish you and your family a joyful celebration.
This is a time of coming together, abundance and welcome, and a moment to fix our eyes on the light which always triumphs over the darkness.
The Labour Party wishes Hindus, Sikhs and Jains across Britain a happy and joyful Diwali and Bandi Chhor Divas.
One of the most important celebrations for Hindus - Diwali - the festival of light, a celebration of light over darkness and good over evil, starts today! We wish everyone who is celebrating a very happy Diwali!
🚲🔐🎥🌳☔️ The Southall Cycle Hub is finally open.
Secure cycle storage, covered by CCTV. All part of a multimillion pound programme to Get Southall Moving.
All part of our bold plans to bring cycling infrastructure to every part of our borough.
Fantastic morning at the Ealing Festival of Business at @UniWestLondon. Networking opportunities aplenty - with numerous businesses exhibiting, and a packed program of talks! Great to speak about the London Living Wage with @LivingWageUK #EalingFestivalOfBusiness #Networking
Congratulations to @Katie4Acton on an excellent maiden speech at her first @EalingCouncil meeting!
Congratulations to @NortholtDom and @Katie4Acton on your excellent maiden speeches tonight at your first @EalingCouncil’s full council meeting. 🌹
Delighted to have been elected tonight to represent Northolt Mandeville at @EalingCouncil for @EalingLabour. The result is a vote of confidence in the leadership and direction of Ealing Council.
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.
