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Ealing council nominations

How do you register to run for  the ealing council

D Downey ● 4360d12 Comments

It was not until I got a UKIP leaflet pushed through my letter plate that I realised that we are voting for EIGHT Members of the European Parliament at the same time as the local councillors.There is a variety of choices, some of which are parties that I have NEVER heard of before,UK Independence Party (UKIP), NO2EU, National Liberal Party, National Health Action Party, Liberal Democrats, Labour Party, Harmony Party, Green Party, Europeans Party, English Democrats, Conservative Party, Communities United Party, Christian Peoples Alliance, British National Party, Animal Welfare Party, An Independence from Europe, 4 Freedoms Party.See, http://www.ealing.gov.uk/downloads/download/2997/statement_of_persons_nominated_european_parliamentary_election-22_may_2014

Peter Mcleod ● 4348d

Sadly there is very little choice between the two main parties for this election. On the one hand you will get efficient Conservatives reflective of a brutal and cruel central government (now making the long-term unemployed sign on daily or face slave labour for nothing), on the other you have a local Labour group which is basically destroying Ealing in the quest to prettify Southall while pretending to social ideals.

Peter Mcleod ● 4356d

I really hope so and urge everyone to exercise their right no matter for whom they vote.

Nigel Brooks ● 4357d

I doubt it :-(

Graham Weeks ● 4357d

Will the local election bring about a change of administration at Ealing Council?

Gerry Tan ● 4357d

All I do Phil is wish you good luck.Northfield's loss is (hopefully) East Acton's gain.Loads of problems need sorting there and it would be good to see some of the Southall 'vanity' money spent where it will benefit far more people.

Nigel Brooks ● 4358d

Peter, Thanks for your kind words about Northfield.  Acton, and East Acton in particular, needs a lot of work.  The Conservatives have fielded a very strong team of candidates for Acton.  In spite of having 9 Labour councillors Acton has been woefully neglected by the current Labour administration.  Its residential roads have been left to rot.  Labour has neglected street drinking.  Labour is intent on selling the Churchfield Road Car Park to the Oaks developers just days before the election.  Labour has made no progress in sorting out the horrendous PM10 pollution that comes from the Horn Lane goods yard, indeed their whipped planning committee voted through the Hanson cement works planning application 7:6 with the help of East Acton councillor Kate Crawford.  The same Kate Crawford who voted for the Oaks so that it went through against the very sound planning arguments of the opposition planning councillors 7:6 again.  Labour refuses to back the Old Library Arts Centre project.  Pretty much all the good things happening in Acton right now were started off by the Conservatives.  The previous administration allocated the funds for the Town Hall project.  Boris's Outer London Fund paid for the ACTON sign on the Vale and Oak mural.  TfL is paying for the road schemes - the original notion of replacing traffic lights with roundabouts came from Boris' 2008 campaign and were pushed through by then Conservative transport lead David Millican notably at Acton Town Tube station.  The Acton Gardens project was kicked off by the Conservatives.  I have probably gone on enough now.

Phil Taylor ● 4358d

Other notables that are absent are John Gallagher (Labour) and Benjamin Dennehy (Conservative became UKIP).However, most of the library-closing lot are still there unfortunately enough.

Peter Mcleod ● 4358d

Blimey, hope he gives Kate Crawford a run for her money, after The Oaks planning debacle.

Nigel Brooks ● 4358d

http://www.ealing.gov.uk/downloads/download/2996/statement_of_persons_nominated_council_election-22_may_2014N.B. One of our more vocal Northfields councillors, Conservative Phil Taylor is now standing for East Acton. This is interesting because all the current East Acton councillors are Labour so he must be planning a holiday from local politics as it is unlikely that he will get elected there, his old Northfields seat was a dead cert.

Peter Mcleod ● 4359d

IIRC you need the signatures of 10 electors. It costs nothing.

Graham Weeks ● 4360d

Should add notice tomorrow is last day to register as candidate, wondering what you need and how much it costs to enter.

D Downey ● 4360d