| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Time to Break Labour Stranglehold of Ealing | |
| Posted by: | Mark Evans | |
| Date/Time: | 24/03/26 08:33:00 |
| In amongst Rosco calling everyone else a lefty, he does make a good point - that people expect their council to concentrate on services. For most this boils down to three things - collecting bins, getting rid of potholes quickly and keeping the streets clean. For anyone who is a tenant of the council, the maintenance of their property is also important. I don't get the impression that Ealing is particularly bad at any of these things - a bit ho hum maybe but not a disaster. Certainly the opposition hasn't really managed to create a narrative that they are failing significantly. What could undermine them is the scale of PCNs being issued to help balance the books. I was really taken aback by the figures recently published on School Street fines. Most of the people getting a PCN probably aren't local (delivery drivers, care workers, Uber drivers) but a good proportion will be and they will each have a reason to vote against Labour. How important this will be, we will find out on May 8th but at this point I agree that Labour is probably saved by the weakness of the opposition. To be fair to the Lib Dems this 'weakness' is that their support is too geographically concentrated. |