Welcome to Brent Labour Party's web site. 

Here you'll find news stories, information about our elected representatives and on how the Labour Party is organisied in Brent.  You'll also  have the opportunity to contribute your views on matters of local concern. 

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LABOUR'S PLEDGES FOR BRENT

Labour pledges
to restore free
collection of
bulky refuse.

Click here for
more
information.

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 COUNCILLOR JOSEPH LOSES APPEAL

Conservative Councillor, Bertha Joseph, has lost her appeal against the penalty of six months suspension for:  failure to register gifts within 28 days;  bringing the Mayoralty and Brent Council into disrepute and misuse of money received for personal gain.

Cllr Joseph will be barred from performing any council duties until the end of the suspension period, including constituency work and any formal business of the council.

The suspension period comes into effect from Tuesday 9 February 2010 and will run until her current term of office ends on 10 May 2010.

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LIB DEMS CLOSE ANOTHER COMMUNITY FACILITY IN KILBURN

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VICTORY FOR LABOUR’S CAMPAIGN TO SAVE WELSH HARP

Welsh Harp Labour councillors Harry Singh and Mary Farrell, supported by Welsh Harp Labour Action Team members Dhiraj Kataria and Roxanne Mashari and Brent South’s Labour MP, Dawn Butler, have won their campaign to save the Welsh Harp Open Space from housing development.

At its meeting on 16 December, Brent Council’s Planning Committee rejected the proposal to build 71 dwellings on the site of the Greenhouse Garden Centre in Birchen Grove adjacent to the Welsh Harp Park. Labour is also opposing similar proposals on the Barnet side of the park. Labour Opposition Leader, Cllr Ann John, OBE and Navin Shah, who represents local people on the London Assembly were amongst those who attended the Planning Committee to speak against the proposals.

Labour led the campaign, co-ordinating objections and launching a petition, which was signed by over 400 local residents.

Welsh Harp Ward Labour Councillor Harry Singh, said:

“This shows what can be achieved when local councillors and local people work together. This is not the first time the Welsh Harp has been under threat and it will not be last but Labour will continue to fight to protect this unique piece of London countryside from developers”.

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 PARENTS RATE BRENT WORST PROVIDER OF SERVICES FOR
DISABLED CHILDREN

A government survey of parental experiences of services provided for
disabled children shows Brent to be the worst performing local authority in
 the entire country.

Brent Council’s Labour Opposition has repeatedly condemned the Lib Dem
and Tory run council for cutting services for disabled older people. Now it
appears that the ‘savage cuts’ favoured by the Liberal Dems and Tories are
impacting adversely on disabled children as well.

Labour’s Spokesperson for Children & Families, Cllr Mary Arnold, said:

“This report makes shocking reading and it confirms our worst
suspicions that services for the most vulnerable have rapidly
deteriorated under this incompetent right wing administration. They
have clobbered older disabled people by trebling care charges and now
it is revealed that their services for disabled children are the worst
in the country”

For more information on the survey go to
http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/STR/d000902/index.shtml

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LIB DEMS’ SHAMELESS HYPOCRISY ON SCHOOL FUNDING

The Wembley Observer newspaper published a letter from Lib Dem Education supremo Cllr Bob Wharton complaining that the £80 million earmarked by the government to improve Brent schools has not yet been received and may not yet be received. Meanwhile, in the Willesden & Brent Times the Lib Dem councillors for Wembley Central ward Daniel Bessong, Valerie Brown and Afifa Pervez have written a letter congratulating the Lib Dem council on getting the money, without of course mentioning that the money has been put up by the Labour government following intensive lobbying by local Labour MPs.

Labour’s Education spokesperson, Councillor Mary Arnold, said:

“The last time I looked, Councillors Wharton and the Councillor for Wembley Central ward were all in the same party yet they are saying radically different things about the same government announcement. This is a typical example of the Lib Dems trying to face both ways at once. The fact is that the Government has pledged £80 million for improvements to Brent schools and indeed the Labour Government has invested record sums on Brent schools for the past decade. It is the Liberal Democrats who are committed to ‘savage cuts’ in public spending and they cannot claim that the increased investment in Brent schools is anything to do with them”.

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Lib Dems Hot Air on Climate Change

Lib Dem claims to fight climate change have proved to be so much hot air as the Council’s Executive is set to revise its target for carbon dioxide emissions  downwards.  Click here for full the full story

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