Take part in shaping our manifesto: Delivering homes we can afford
Help us shape the Ealing Labour Party 2018 Manifesto. Tell us how we can deliver on our priorities. Take part in our housing policy commission public consultation that’s online today. Ensuring people have access to safe and genuinely affordable housing remains the Ealing Labour Party’s most important priority. That’s why as we look toward the […]
Save Our Hospitals – Sign the petition today
The Tories are closing Ealing and Charing Cross hospitals. Sign and share the petition today. With no blue-light A&E, no maternity, no children’s ward, no acute beds and an 80% reduction in beds overall, no local resident will recognise the husk – run by GPs, not consultants – that will be left at Ealing under these proposals […]
A Turning Point for Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party
It became clear very early on at the count on Thursday night that something incredible had happened. Our sampling operation revealed we had won all but two polling districts in Ealing Central & Acton. We won Ealing Common, Ealing Broadway and Hanger Hill. We laughed in disbelief as the pre-result analysis revealed we would win a 12,500 […]
Tories vote against Save our Hospitals Campaign
Labour Council Leader, Julian Bell has today written to the Secretary of state for Health, Jeremy Hunt, calling for an urgent review of the A&E and other service closures at Ealing and Charing Cross Hospitals proposed under the ‘Shaping a Healthier Future’ proposals. Cllr Bell’s letter, jointly signed by the Liberal Democrats, came after Ealing […]
20 Reasons to back Ealing Labour’s 2017 Anti-Austerity Budget
On Tuesday evening Labour councillors passed the budget for the coming financial year in Ealing Council. Despite the Tories cutting 50% of our funding and having to find £168 million in savings since 2010, we have managed to develop a Labour budget, founded on solidly Labour values to help the residents of Ealing weather the harshest elements […]
Incredible Turnout at Save Our Hospitals Rally
There was standing room only as hundreds of residents came to last night’s public meeting on NHS proposals to downgrade Ealing and Charing Cross hospitals to ‘local hospital’ status which would result in the loss of the A&E service in both hospitals. Approximately 500 Ealing residents voiced their opposition to the proposals at the meeting […]
Labour council blasts government for forcing ‘social care tax’ on Ealing residents
Ealing’s Labour-run Council today launched a stinging attack on the Tory government’s failure to deal with the social care crisis and choosing to load the burden on to Ealing residents. This year Ealing Labour will freeze core council tax, but has been forced to charge residents with the government’s social care tax, meaning an overall […]
Statement: Acton African Well Woman Centre
There has unfortunately been a number of inaccurate media reports on this subject, which as a council we have sought to correct. While we very much value the work that the clinic does and have sought to establish a good working relationship with them, Ealing Council has never been a direct funder or commissioner of […]
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 […]