| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Around Ealing - 'Money-Wasting Propaganda Sheet' | |
| Posted by: | Simon Hayes | |
| Date/Time: | 07/03/19 17:35:00 |
| The governance of Ealing is becoming ever more centralised. Policies are hatched by a small group of councillors centred round Julian Bell, based on whatever personal agenda he wishes to pursue. These policies are then ratified in cabinet before passing on the nod through full council. You only have to look at the legislative agenda over the past 12 months - CPZ charges raised on the pretext that it will benefit the environment regardless of the impact on lower income households. But at the same time non residents enticed into the borough in their cars with the lure of cheap parking. The latest scam to fleece unsuspecting locals is the near doubling of fines for ‘littering’. No doubt penalty notice issues will soar and this will be presented as yet another great success from Ealing Council. Meanwhile the fly tipping will continue to rise unpunished. Labour councillors no longer represent the needs of their wards, they are there to do the master’s bidding. Information is tightly controlled, controversial issues are ignored or, at best fudged over with excuses about cuts from central government and all the rest of it. I guarantee that not one Labour councillor will fight to stop library closures if volunteers can’t be found to run them. Meanwhile the populace of the borough will be fed the Bell version of the truth in the pages of a magazine we find but in which we have no say. Frankly it’s shameful but, hey, if you voted this lot in then you get what you deserve. |