Apologies for my tardiness in updating my blog recently. I’m in the rather perverse position of having had my busiest month ever at work and then being rewarded with the news that I’m likely to be made redundant at the end of the year.
I work in the construction industry and redundancy is an occupational hazard. When times are good everyone wants to build something – from speculative developments to home extensions. But when times are tough, building schemes can be turned off overnight.
My role is with an industry organisation and while we’re exceptionally busy, our funders have seen their income collapse thanks in part to Gordon Brown’s mismanagement of the economy. As a consequence, they are looking at all their outgoings and I, and a large number of my colleagues, will become additional statistics in Labour’s book of economic horror.
The good news is that I will have more time to spend on the campaign to win Ealing North for the Conservatives at the next general election – and more time to post on the blog! Every cloud as they say!
I attended the Greenford remembrance service this year with my family. The Greenford service is organised by the Greenford Branch of the British Legion and is more intimate than the Ealing service, which I’ve attended in the past. This is partly because the crowd are literally much closer to the service but also there is a bigger attendance.
We did some door knocking in the Draytons area of West Ealing tonight to get a better idea of the strength of feeling on implementing a controlled parking zone (CPZ) in the area. 

Ealing’s Conservative Council has announced the latest extension to the kerbside recycling collection scheme – Tetra Paks can be included in the green box from 7th December. Currently there are facilities to drop off these drink and food cartons at Ealing Town Hall and a few other sites, but this will make it much more convenient.
I spent one evening last week at a public meeting to discuss the possible expansion of Hobbayne Primary School. The need for places in the Ealing and Hanwell area is still growing so we’ve been talking to a number of schools about expansion. 

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