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Lift-Off! Ealing Elections Special
🐸 Going Green 🐸
Peter Mason celebrated another election victory yesterday morning by going green.
Solomon Cuthbertson, a Labour activist, posted a photograph at 6:08 a.m. captioned:
“Good morning from Ealing where @EalingLabour has just won an historic fifth term."
The photograph shows Mason at a podium against the Ealing Council branded green backdrop, in an olive-green suit.
Mason had spent much of the final week of the campaign amplifying national Labour’s attack line that …
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Children's Centres
Ealing Labour
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It Takes Two to Tango
The campaign to save ten of Ealing’s children’s centres was lost in the High Court in April.
The approved judgment in R (JO) v London Borough of Ealing is on the record. The claim was dismissed. Ealing Council won.
But the judgment is worth reading carefully — because what Mr Justice Kimblin did not find is as instructive as what he did.
A reader picked me up on Facebook for writing in The Smell of Success that:
“Mason’s council took a toddler to the high court.” …
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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 …