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Local Democracy
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Ealing Labour
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BREAKING NEWS
Who Does Peter Mason Really Represent?
Shots were fired early in this election campaign.
In late March, Ealing Labour issued a statement attacking the Ealing Community Independents (ECI).
Their candidates, Labour said, include people:
“expelled from the Labour Party, supporters of the far-left Socialist Workers Party, and have connections to the Communist Party of Great Britain.”
ECI, Labour concluded, are:
“hardly independent” and should “tell the truth about who they really represent.”
It is …
Investigations
Local Democracy
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Ealing Labour
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BREAKING NEWS
The Smell of Success
Six days before local elections polling day, Southall Green councillor and Ealing Labour council leader Peter Mason has been named a semi-finalist for SME4Labour’s Labour Councillor of the Year 2026 award.
It seems only right to mark the occasion by celebrating Peter Mason’s achievements as a councillor.
The nomination form had a strict set of criteria to narrow down the list of possible winners from almost 6,000 Labour councillors nationwide. To make it to the last sixteen is an …
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Environment
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Ealing Labour
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Updates
This Is Our Home. It's a Tip.
Update, 1 May 2026: A reader has correctly pointed out that the Defra 2024-25 fly-tipping statistics cover April 2024 to March 2025 — and therefore predate Ealing Council’s “This Is Our Home, Not a Tip” campaign and Peter Mason’s claimed 55% reduction in fly-tipping across Southall, both of which relate to 2025-26. The Defra figures establish the pre-campaign baseline, not the campaign’s results.
However, the contradiction at the heart of this piece does not depend …
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"This Place Has Turned Into a Bloody Slum": Southall Wards Meeting with ECI candidates
I arrived late to the Ealing Community Independents' Southall Wards Engagement Evening at Parkside Yards — the usual traffic gridlock on The Green and South Road up to the station. Normally I would walk, but I’d walked all the way up to Oswald Road via the canal footpath the previous afternoon and my poor feet and body were telling me no. After a beautifully warm and sunny spring day, the heavens looked like they might open soon, too. As it turned out, I needn’t have worried.
I …