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Dan Crawford , North Acton Ward Councillor apparently removed as LAB candidate for the 2026 Election

If this doesn't tell you ALL you need to know about how Ealing Council Labour operates, then you need your head read.Dan has integrity, is always available & works very hard for his Ward constituents, and asks questions of his Liebore Party.It is so obviously the latter that has seen him sacked.We have a lovely Council.    🤣

Rosco White ● 9d3 Comments

Candidate selection used to be done by local Party members, but increasingly Labour ‘head office’ intervenes to scrub people from short lists based on their own interpretation of who’s ‘acceptable’. This usually involves rifling through candidates’ social media and past comments to ensure they ‘fully support the Party’.  Toe the Party line or you’re out!

Peter Evans ● 2d

Candidate selection used to be done by local Party members, but increasingly Labour ‘head office’ intervenes to scrub people from short lists based on their own interpretation of who’s ‘acceptable’. This usually involves rifling through candidates’ social media and past comments to ensure they ‘fully support the Party’.  Toe the Party line or you’re out!

Peter Evans ● 2d

Daniel Crawford seems to be too indepedent minded to fit in with the authoritarian wilfully inept spastic Soviet style Jehovah Witness Labour run Ealing Council.On 5th April 2023, at the Planning Committee Meeting, he spoke against an application to build a high rise council tax farm on the corner of Horn Lane and Western Avenue (reference 224371FUL) in Acton. Good on him, and he seemed to irritate the double standards NIMBY chair of the Planning Committee, Councillor Ray Wall, as well.

Anthony Hawran ● 7d

I imagine there must be some sort of Appeal procedure?Even if there is, this lovely bunch "running" LBE would railroad him?He has an excellent chance if he stands as an Independent.

Rosco White ● 9d

I have known Dan since he and my son shared classes  together at Twyford CE High School well over 20 years ago.  Two qualities he has are honesty and integrity obviously that singles him out as being totally undesirable in the Labour party in its current state in Ealing. Roll on may 2026 when the whole sorry bunch can be unceremoniously ejected from office.

N V Brooks ● 9d