Protecting our health and hospitals
Happy New Year! It still isn’t too late to exchange a New Year greeting or to set yourself a new year resolution even though more than three weeks of 2016 has already whizzed by. As a natural optimist I enjoy this time of year and along with many I am busy working on my 2016 […]
Cllr Bell”s New Year Message
2015 saw the General Election in May and although Labour did very well in Ealing capturing all three Parliamentary seats it was disappointing to lose to the Tories nationally who have already shown their colours by closing Ealing Hospital’s maternity unit. In October we had the fantastic news that Ealing will finally be getting its […]
Cllr Bell’s Christmas message 2015
2015 saw the fantastic news that Ealing will finally be getting its cinema back after the Council successfully served a compulsory purchase order on the previous owners Empire. Other good news included the new incline lift at Greenford Station and the new Southall Broadway Boulevard with improved traffic flows and wider pavements. We will make […]
Dr Onkar Sahota AM and Ealing MPs oppose Cameron’s Syria Airstrikes
Ealing Assembly Member Onkar Sahota, along with all three local Members of Parliament ,have issued a joint statement condemning David Cameron’s “rush to war” and explaining why they will not be supporting today’s motion to begin airstrikes on Syria. The full statement reads: Today, Wednesday 2nd December, parliament will be asked to authorise military action […]
Ealing families need a real Living Wage
This week is Living Wage Week and to mark it Ealing Council has announced that it will offer local businesses up to £200,000 in business rate relief if they pay their employees the Living Wage and become accredited Living Wage employers. The Living Wage is a minimum hourly rate of pay set annually by the […]
Sadiq Khan to speak at Ealing Labour Conference
On Saturday November 7th, Labour mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan will be joining us at the Annual Ealing Labour Conference. There will be a discussion of his policy papers, as well as a Q&A session with the mayoral candidate and local MPs. Click here for more details.
New Lift at Greenford Station
Today residents in the heart of west London were jubilant after a long campaign to get a lift installed at Greenford station was finally realised. The station in its current form has been open since 1947 providing access on the Central Line to Oxford Street and beyond as well as a national rail service to […]
Ealing Labour response to the refugee crisis
In response to the recent refugee crisis unfolding across Europe and calls for the UK to take more refugees Ealing Labour have issued the following statement: “We have all seen the terrible images of the refugee crisis currently unfolding all around Europe and further afield. It is in times like this that politicians at all […]
The tough job of governing under the Tories
Well the summer break is well a truly over and the hard work of running Ealing Council under a Tory government is back with a vengeance, testing myself and local Labour councillors to the full. We recently met as a group to talk about both the tough budget challenges we face but also about our […]
Determined to succeed for Ealing
The General Election was a bitter sweet night for the Labour Party in Ealing. Obviously we were delighted to see all the Ealing Parliamentary constituencies return Labour MPs especially the election for the first time of Dr Rupa Huq in the highly marginal Ealing Central and Acton seat but this local euphoria was set against […]