Polling day is Thursday 7 May 2026. Southall Green’s three sitting Labour councillors — between them representing the ward for sixty-four years — are once again asking for your vote.
Between them, they have drawn well over £1.5 million in councillor allowances — Cllr Anand alone has received at least three-quarters of a million pounds over her 28 years in office. The figure has accelerated since 2022, when the Labour-controlled council voted itself a substantial uplift in the same period it began closing children’s centres on grounds of affordability.
Their latest leaflet, delivered two days before polling, lists the headline achievements they want you to remember.
What it does not say is also worth reading.
Peter Mason
Council leader since May 2021. Cabinet member, planning lead, and the public face of Ealing Labour. His record across the gasworks, children’s centres, regeneration, asset disposal and council governance is extensively documented on this site.
For an independent assessment of his sixteen years of Labour leadership in Ealing, read the Community Powered Reporting investigation — a forensic account of whose interests Ealing Labour has actually served.
Read everything Southall Stories has published about Peter Mason »
Jasbir Anand
Cllr Anand has represented Southall Green since 1998 — twenty-eight years — and currently holds the cabinet portfolio for crime and anti-social behaviour.
The public record includes: a long-running illegal food business reported by the Ealing Gazette in 1999, pursued through council enforcement and a rejected planning appeal; a 2006 legal dispute with a neighbour that cost her £35,000 in damages, paid only under threat of bankruptcy; a 2007 allegation against the same neighbour’s daughter — the singer Tasha Tah — which led to Tah’s arrest before the case was dropped; and her now-infamous remark to a room of disabled residents whose day centre she had closed:
“I own half of Southall. I’m very popular."
Her food business now operates a coffee cart at Berkeley’s Green Quarter development — the toxic former gasworks site — at a prime location opposite Southall station, promoted by Berkeley’s community engagement manager Jags Sanghera.
Today, I published the story of how Anand was responsible for the decision to move Ealing’s drug treatment centre from West Ealing to Southall, a move that coincided with a dramatic increase in crime in Southall.
Kamaljit S Dhindsa
Cllr Dhindsa has served Southall Green since 1998.
You can find Cllr Dhindsa’s achievements here »
A note on the leaflet
The 2026 leaflet headlines a claim that fly-tipping is “down 54% across Southall.” Readers may wish to compare that figure with “This is Our Home. It’s a Tip”, which uses Defra’s published data, indexed against national trends, to show what actually happened to fly-tipping in Ealing after the switch to fortnightly collections.
