Update on our Burnley GP practice campaign

Many may know the work that we have been doing to lobby the NHS Brent board to resurrect a GP Surgery Practice in the Burnley Road area. We have some great news on the campaign which will open up the chances of a new practice coming in. After lobbying from patient groups, local beneficiaries, the [...]

Smart Water available to Dudden Hill residents

Brent police in collaboration with Ward Working has introduced an innovative home security product to Dudden Hill residents designed to reduce burglary rates in the Ward. We have available a limited supply of Smart Water kits. Smart Water is a unique property coding system designed to uniquely mark household items with a forensic code enabling [...]

Brent Council disproportionately impacted by Osborne’s ideological cuts

Following the Comprehensive Spending Review, Brent will not know in detail our precise settlement from Sarah Teather’s Coalition until mid-December.  What we do know is that these cuts will be front-loaded. To put things into perspective, there are two astonishing facts about Teather’s Government’s cuts. 1.       The average cut that Departments have to make following [...]

SCANDALOUS!!!

If anyone had any doubts that these cuts are ideological and out to hit areas most in need this article says it all. LINK While Brent is having to make cuts in the region of 27%, areas where deprivation is not prominent such as Tunbridge Wells and West Oxfordshire will see their budgets increase by [...]

Shhhhh….. Don’t mention the cuts

What has been the single most prominent theme on the public agenda in the last few months? No, I’m not offering any prizes for guessing. The answer is plain and simply the cuts. Our MP for Brent Central has nothing to say on the matter on her website – LINK Instead it’s Christmas cards, Trident, [...]

What are Sarah Teather’s views on the Brent Cross Development?

Our MP Sarah Teather was critical of everyone but herself when this development was being pushed forward by Barnet Council and Mayor of London Boris Johnson seemed in favour of it. Lets look at the facts. Labour Secretary of State John Denham called in the developed and it was put on hold. A few months [...]

Full Council Meeting 22nd November 2010 (last night)

Yesterday was the night of the Full Brent Council Meeting. One of the items on the agenda was the first reading of the Council Budget. Not one Tory or Lib Dem Councillor seemed to ask a question on any items in the paper. It seems that they have been asleep for the past few years. [...]

More on Tuition fees

There is no two ways about it. Lib Dem MPs have broken their promise on tuition fees. Every single MP including Brent Central’s very own Sarah Teather signed the NUS pledge, not as a potential ‘Lib Dem Government’ – but made individual commitments by themselves not to vote on any increase to the cap on [...]

Parking restrictions in the Wembley Stadium Event Day Zone today

England play France at Wembley Stadium on 17 November 2010. The game starts at 8pm. About the parking scheme:Wembley Stadium Protective Parking Scheme Restrictions will apply throughout the Wembley Stadium Event Day Zone from 8am until midnight on main routes, and 10am until midnight in residential areas within the 1.5 mile radius of Wembley Stadium [...]

Lib Dem Hypocrisy: Social Housing

In a speech to Liberal Democrats’ spring conference in Birmingham on 13 March 2010, Teather said Conservative plans to abolish subsidised rents for Council and housing association homes would be a “total disaster.” She said their housing plans lacked substance, causing them to try and keep housing off the agenda. She said there was no [...]

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