Pound still failing to back Ealing’s Stroke Unit

An update on our local MP’s inaction on the stroke unit.  Steve Pound, Ealing North’s MP has still not signed the Early Day Motion (EDM) calling for the Ealing Hospital Stroke Unit to be kept open.  He also failed to defend the unit when there was a debate in the House of Commons.
I’ve investigated his [...]

Ealing Council wins prestigious award

Ealing Council has won the award for “Best Achieving Council of the Year”.  The premier award in the Municpal Journal’s annual awards was presented to us by news reader Huw Edwards, after we beat off competition from five other councils. 

London Borough of Harrow
Rushcliffe Borough Council
Somerset County Council
South Somerset District Council
Teignbridge District Council

 
The judges said Ealing “displayed consistent [...]

It’s a busy month

Apologies for the lack of blogging recently – my diary is mad this month and I’m struggling to keep up with everything.  Tuesday I was in Derby explaining to engineers how to design external concrete hardstandings -  then it was on to Leeds where I was debating the relative sustainable benefits of concrete v steel. [...]

Flowery Steve’s Parliamentary Expenses online

I couldn’t resist having a quick trawl through Steve Pound’s expenses.  It’s hard to read some of the stuff online because a lot of the information has been “redacted” – parliamentary speak for covering it in black ink so that you can’t read it 
He’s not a serial abuser like some MPs but he’s certainly used [...]

£50 value for money rebate for all Ealing households

At Council on Tuesday night, Leader of the Council, Jason Stacey, announced our latest value for money initiative – a £50 rebate for all households in Ealing.  Value for Money is one of the Conservative Council’s 3 priorities – already we’ve delivered 3 below inflation Council tax increases (1.9%. 1.9% and then frozen this year).  [...]

Stroke Unit Update

We have a couple of motions at Council tomorrow night calling on the Stroke Unit at Ealing Hospital to be saved.  One is tabled by Labour and one by the Conservatives.  I note that Stephen Pound, Ealing North’s MP has still failed to sign the Early day Motion tabled by his colleague, Virendra Sharma.  It [...]

Every Disabled Child Matters

I attended Mencap’s Every Disabled Child Matters fun day and conference at St Ann’s School, Hanwell on Saturday.  I formally opened the event, which was focussing on parent participation.  These events always make me come away thinking what an incredible bunch of parents we have and how lucky I am with my own personal family [...]

Further consultation on primary expansion

A new consultation on further expansion of primary places in the Ealing and Hanwell area is available online tomorrow.
The Cabinet has already agreed to add 7 extra forms of entry but deferred a decision on the 1.5 forms of entry proposed at Brentside Primary for further consultation. In the consultation we rule out expanding further any of [...]

London European Election Results

Below are the results across London – as you can see by comparing with my previous post, the Conservatives in Ealing did better than we did across London generally, achieving a bigger swing over Labour.

 
        Votes
             %
          Change

British National Party
86420
4.9%
0.9%

Christian Peoples Alliance
51336
2.9%
0.6%

Conservative Party
479037
27.4%
0.8%

English Democrats Party
24477
1.4%
0.6%

Jury Team
7284
0.4%
 

Green Party
190589
10.9%
2.5%

Labour Party
372590
21.3%
-3.2%

Liberal Democrats
240156
13.7%
1.5%

No2EU
17758
1.0%
 

Libertas
8444
0.5%
 

Socialist Labour
15306
0.9%
 

Socialist Party
4050
0.2%
 

UK Independence Party
188440
10.8%
-1.5%

Yes to Europe
3384
0.2%
 

Gene Alcantra
1972
0.1%
 

Steven [...]

Ealing’s European Election results

We’re still waiting for the results across London (and the rest of the UK for that matter), but I can reveal how the vote went in Ealing.  As with all these things there is good news and bad news.  Good news for Labour is that they won the Ealing vote, but only just.  Bad news [...]