Is Brent Labour the Greenest Party in Brent? ….. Yes The bold decision to care about the environment and change the Brent waste collection strategy has seen some more incredible results in Brent’s recycling rate and an emphatic decrease in the amount of rubbish that is being squashed underground in landfill, damaging our mother earth. [...]
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Coalition in denial about child poverty
Brent Labour is concerned about the impact of the Lib Dem and Conservative policies that are putting more people into poverty. The renowned Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has produced a report which says that the UK is seeing a big rise in poverty and that 600,000 more children will be pushed into poverty. With [...]
EXCLUSIVE: RECYCLING RATES IN BRENT SOAR FOLLOWING INTRODUCTION OF NEW BIN SYSTEM
The new recycling scheme introduced by Brent Council’s Labour administration is exceeding all expectations, with a whopping 50% increase in recycling within the first days of the new waste collection system. Brent Labour ambitiously promised to bring in plans to more than double the borough’s recycling rate from 28% to 60% in their manifesto leading [...]
Brent Labour promoting equality with action
My colleague Cllr James Powney points out on his blog that Brent Council now boasts a cabinet with 50% of its members being female. Furthermore, since Brent Labour took control of the Local Authority, we have also seen a higher percentage of women and ethnic minorities as directors. 60% of Brent’s population are ethnic minorities [...]
Brent Councillors March for the Alternative
Brent Labour Party Councillors participated in Saturday’s demonstration in support for the argument that there is an alternative way to address the deficit without needing to make cuts so fast and so deep. Labour Councillors across the country, as well as Tory and Lib Dem have had to make difficult choices to balance budgets [...]
Brent Labour protects Sure Start Children Centres from Liberal Tory Cuts
Sarah Teather has wrongly claimed with the headline on her website that ‘Labour Council chooses to close Sure Start centres’. Firstly ALL OF BRENT’S SEVENTEEN SURE START CENTRES have been protected in this years budget contrary to Lib Dem promotional material. This is in the backdrop of 20% cuts to Sure Start funding from £10 [...]
Kenton by-election result
Unfortunately Labour was unable to gain a seat from the Conservatives in Kenton ward yesterday following the death of Councillor Arthur Steel which triggered the by-election. Conservative candidate Suresh Kansagra won by 156 votes. The final results were as follows: Suresh Kansagra (Conservative) – 1,063 votes Ellie May Southwood (Labour) – 907 votes Robert Dunwell [...]
Chief Executive and Director’s Pay
Many point to the fact that some of these are paid higher than the Prime Minister and that pay for those in high positions at the Council should be reduced given the cuts that the Council has to make. I personally agree with this. However, when people have signed contracts this is difficult to achieve. [...]
Ellie May Southwood: Brent Labour’s candidate for Kenton by-election
I am delighted that Ellie May Southwood has been selected as the Labour Party candidate for the Kenton Ward by-election to the London Borough of Brent. The election was called following the death of Councillor Arthur Steel and the date for the by-election vote to replace Mr Steel will be on February 17th. Ellie was [...]
