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 [...]
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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 [...]
Not much changes in politics
Great poster from April 1985 (before I was even born!). Fast forward twenty five years and we face the same situation, not only in Brent but across the country on a national scale.
Brent anger over fees
Brent Labour received an overwhelming positive response this weekend as we were joined by Labour Students and Labour Young Labour on the streets of Brent with our petition calling for our local MP to vote against the proposed rise in tuition fees and not to scrap EMA, which would affect 4,000 children in Brent. We [...]
Brent Labour’s petition against the increase in Tuition fees and the scrapping of the EMA
Brent Labour has a petition running against the increase in Tuition fees and the scrapping of the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA). EMA currently helps around 4,000 young people in Brent. The petition calls on Brent Central MP Sarah Teather to honour her personal pledge to voters, and vote against any increase in tuition fees. It also [...]
Fib Dems give all politicians a bad name
Voters have always been cynical about politicians who make extravagant promises only to renege on them a few months later but never in recorded history has a party betrayed every principle it ever stood for as the Liberal Democrats have done since May 6th. Before the election, the Lib Dems supported Labour in not wishing [...]
The Brent Lib Dems attempt to delay the scrapping of the £25 charge for bulky item collection
Labour plans to abolish the Dumpers’ Charter on 1st October 2010 despite the fact that the Lib Dems are attempting to pettily call-in the decision. The Labour executive will ignore Lib Dem delaying tactics and we will keep our promise to abolish the £25 charge for bulky refuse collection. The abolition of the charge was [...]
