The poor must not be left to pick up the tab for everyone’s social care
In today’s Guardian I have responded to the Prime Minister’s scurrilous attack on Ealing Council regarding adult social care. Read the full letter below and please share wildly to let other residents know the facts: SHARE THE STORY BY SHARING THIS LINK: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/dec/18/poor-not-pick-up-tab-social-care OR RE-TWEET THE STORY HERE: https://twitter.com/EalingLabour/status/810830010324054016 “Theresa May’s decision to single out […]
Labour Council blasts care home operator for cutting staff pay and conditions
Senior Labour Councillors in Ealing today condemned plans by care home operator Viridian Housing to make severe cuts to the pay and conditions of their lowest paid staff while the CEO awards himself huge pay increase. Viridian began consultation with all ‘Care and Housekeeping staff’ on ‘Significant changes to the PFI Terms and Conditions’ in […]
JOB VACANCY: Campaign Organiser
The London Borough of Ealing Labour Party is looking to recruit a Borough-wide Organiser to help drive the party forward towards, and during, the London Borough Elections in 2018. The successful applicant will be responsible for the organisation of front-line campaigning across the Borough of Ealing. It is expected that s/he will work closely with […]
Save Northfields Allotments
Labour’s Walpole Councillors, Paul Conlan, Binda Rai and Gareth Shaw are opposing Pathways housing development plans for the Northfields Allotment site and have launched a petition for local residents to have their say. Pathways say only a small proportion of the Northfields Allotment site adjoining Mattock Lane, is being considered for the development. However, Walpole […]
Children in Calais ‘jungle’ need rescuing
A year ago today – 2nd September – the world was shocked at the sight of little Aylan Kurdi’s lifeless body washed up on a beach in Bodrum, Turkey after the boat his family were trying to escape the nightmare of Syria in sank in the Mediterranean. An outpouring of sympathy and concern followed with […]
Ealing Labour on course to deliver 500 council homes by 2018
Ealing’s Labour-run Council is on course to fulfil a 2014 manifesto commitment to deliver 500 more council homes in Ealing by 2018, owing in part to a new commitment to unlock 21 under-used council-sites for development. So far Ealing Labour have built 158 new council homes. It is projected that by the end of […]
Sadiq Khan – A real breath of fresh air
It is now three weeks since Sadiq Khan was elected as the Mayor of London and he has been a real breath of fresh air. From his first mayoral engagement at a Jewish Holocaust memorial event to his recent comments on his blog about relationships and mental health he has shown real leadership. But before […]
Ealing Labour Launches Ealing Schools Campaign
Ealing Labour Group is the latest to join a growing number of Councils from all political parties, in opposing the government’s plans to force all schools to become academies. In launching this petition, the Labour Group is calling on local people to make their voices heard as part of a mounting national campaign demanding that […]
Sadiq Khan – A Mayor for all Londoners
The vote for who will be the next London Mayor on 5 May is rapidly approaching so I want to explain why I’ll be voting for Labour’s Sadiq Khan. Sadiq is a Londoner – born on a council estate to immigrant parents he went to his local comprehensive school and has succeeded, first as a […]
Council Tax frozen for an 8th consecutive year
Setting the Council’s annual budget and council tax level is always a big decision and this year has been no different. With the Tory government continuing to slash the revenue support grant Ealing Council receives the relentless cuts to our budgets carries on unabated. By 2020 we will have seen £180m cut from our budgets […]