Brent Council Executive 2012 / 2013

Following the Brent Council Annual General Meeting of 2012 tonight, the emerging Cabinet will be as follows: Mayor of Brent – Cllr Michael Adeyeye Deputy Mayor of Brent – Cllr Bobby Thomas Leader of Brent Council – Cllr Muhammed Butt Deputy Leader of Brent Council – Cllr Ruth Moher Lead Member for Adults and Health [...]

Navin Shah storms to victory in Brent and Harrow

In Brent and Harrow, our Labour London Assembly Member Navin Shah stormed to victory, increasing his majority from 2008 to nearly a whopping 30,000 votes. Candidate Party Votes % +/- Navin Shah Labour 70,400 48.5 11.3 Sachin Rajput Conservative 40,604 28.0 -8.2 Charlotte Henry Liberal Democrats 15,690 10.8 -1.6 Shahrar Ali Green Party 10,546 7.3 [...]

Brent Labour’s Mikey Pavey triumphs with a sensational Barnhill by-election victory

Welcome to the London Borough of Brent Cllr Michael Pavey Mikey Pavey has emphatically won the Barnhill by-election. He polled more than all of the other candidates put together in a ‘marginal’ ward. Turnout was 37%. Name Party Votes Percentage Martin Francis Green 613 14.3% Michael Pavey Labour 2326 54.4% Kanta Pindoria Tory 1180 27.6% [...]

Dudden Hill Safer Neighbourhood Team down to three

Police numbers in Dudden Hill are simply too low. My ward currently has only one Sergeant, one PC and one PCSO as part of the dedicated Ward Safer Neighbourhood Team at the moment. Last night, I was on a joint collaborative ward walkabout with Welsh Harp Ward to investigate cross-ward issues in the Neasden area. [...]

Liberals desert Barnhill

The Brent Liberal Democrats have failed to field a candidate for the Barnhill by-election on May 3rd 2012. Just two years ago at the local Brent Council elections in May 2010, the Lib Dems put up three candidates in Barnhill and they attracted a respectable 987, 903 and 799 votes for the three candidates there. [...]

POLLING STATIONS OPEN IN DOLLIS HILL WARD – VOTE PARVEZ AHMED (LABOUR)

Polling stations are now open in Dollis Hill Ward where people are now able to vote for Parvez Ahmed, Labour’s candidate for the Brent Council by-election which is taking place today.

Barnhill By-election on May 3rd 2012, but there should be one in Dudden Hill too

Following my blogpost here LINK - Judith Beckman has today officially resigned as a Councillor serving the London Borough of Brent in Barnhill Ward. A by-election vote will be held on May 3rd 2012 to minimise the cost of an election to the Brent taxpayer. Judith moved to Plymouth in January and decided she would stand [...]

Sarah Teather and the Brent Liberal Democrats slammed in Parliament for being hypocritics

Following my blogpost here LINK – covered by the brilliant Political Scrapbook website here LINK the issue of the Brent Central Liberal Democrats political communications during Lib Dem Alison Hopkin’s Dollis Hill Ward by-election campaign has been raised to the Leader of the House of Commons Sir George Young. In a Parliamentary debate, Angela Eagle [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Lib Dem Hypocrisy Reaches New Low in Brent

While cutting Brent’s budget by £104 million, reducing the Brent Police budget by 20%, spending money on top down reorganisation of the NHS, trebling tuition fees, scrapping EMA and much more, the Liberal Democrats have reached a new hypercritical low in Brent. They have distributed an attack leaflet on the Labour Party in Dollis Hill Ward which [...]

More police cuts in Dudden Hill

Last week, Dudden Hill lost yet another dedicated Police Community Support Officer. There is no plan to replace Community Support Officers in Brent. Dudden Hill are set to lose another in the next few months, meaning that in total, we will be down to three Safer Neighbourhood Team members working the whole ward. This will [...]

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