Dear Fellow Residents,

Well, I have lived in Ealing all my life, and in Hanwell Broadway since 1982 onwards.

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I grew up here, and am a proud Hanwellian. My professional background is in the Rail Industry, I am also a member of the RMT Union, and was a local Health & Safety Rep for my workplace for 7 years. I am a family man, and am a Dad of two teenage children. The last 20 years, I have been a member of the Socialist Party (www.socialistparty.org.uk), who are part of the Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition/TUSC (www.tusc.org.uk).

My main priorities for the North Hanwell ward is now where Ealing Labour Council has approved a 4.99% rise in Council Tax! Now, where is the money going? And yet our services are chronically underfunded, and the cost of living and austerity continue to affect the lives of our residents!

Local residents across the whole of Ealing borough, including this very North Hanwell ward are still faced with continuous onslaught of vicious austerity cuts since the last 16 years, tearing down our public sector services, and dismantling the fabric of our community structure.

What's the point of a Labour Government and a Labour Council, if they continue the same continuous onslaught of Tory style Austerity Cuts, directly attacking the working class communities? Every council service has faced cuts, job losses and Austerity! Since 2010, under the Tory Rule, Ealing Council has lost 56% of its funding in real terms. Now, Labour are in power in both the Council & Government, but nothing seems to have changed!

In 2024, Labour promised change, but all we got was the same old cruel Tory Policies. They all say "better our cuts than their cuts" and continue to make us all pay for the system's crisis! Fight Back Against Austerity We need Real Anti Austerity Councillors, who will Fight Back Against Austerity Cuts and to stand up to Starmer's Labour Government, and vote for No - Cuts Needs Budgets and Campaign within our communities and trade unions to win back the millions stolen from our Borough.
No More Council Tax Hikes! Don't make us pay to make up for the loss of Central Government Funding.
Just how many more politicians will vote for more devastating cuts and council tax increase to make up for the loss of central Government fundings?

It is deeply disgusting and vile to know the fact that Through its pension fund - paid for by your council tax - Labour led Ealing Council invests over £112 million in arms companies complicit in the genocide in Gaza! We at Ealing TUSC stand with the council workforce in the fight for a pension scheme which meets the needs of all, while also opposing war!

I am proud to be affiliated and be part of TUSC. Where TUSC in its origins was founded back in 2010 as Late RMT Leader Bob Crow collaborated with Socialist Party. TUSC was founded in its origins as a Key Principle to build a New Mass Worker's Party, where Labour had long betrayed its "working class historic roots" under Blair & Brown days, and calling for all like minded Socialists & Trade Unionists to disaffiliate from Labour. We have always emphasised the fact that it is vital for like-minded Socialists and Trade Unionists to be at the forefront of the creation of a New Mass Worker's Party, and given the fact that Trade Union Movements are historically associated with granting the working class a genuine political voice in society.

Now both Locally & Nationally, where Starmer's Labour are attacking our class and no longer represent our interests. Under this current Economical Crisis, Starmer's failures have unfortunately contributed to a section of our class and disillusioned people turning in desperation to the Far Right, who are no different to the likes of other Mainstream Parties, in terms of representing the interests of the Billionaire owned Establishment.

We were the first to warn people against Starmer led Labour prior to 2024 General Elections, and now 2 years later, judging by the colossal failure of this 2 party system that has long held this country at ransom for decades, we have proved to be correct.

As a Socialist and Trade Unionist, I argue for a New Mass Worker's Party based on the working class. A party that will take on the Establishment Parties and put forward a socialist alternative to War and Austerity. TUSC is an alliance of working class fighters prepared to stand up to Establishment politicians and give working - class people a genuine political voice.

Now, What do I consider to be the biggest challenges facing North Hanwell Ward, and how would you address them as a councillor?

Insecure Housing, Lack of Youth Services and Lack of Social Care Provisions and Facilites (including NHS Provisions, and domestic abuse services).

Many homes across North Hanwell are being turned into cramped HMO houses for private landlords to exploit many low paid workers and vulnerable tenants as possible. While there are currently more than 7,500 live applications on the Ealing council housing register. The waiting time for a 3 bedroom house is 12 years! No more Gentrification! Ealing Labour is more for giving contracts to private property developers, selling off our public land rather than implementing a mass programme of council house building and introducing rent controls. We need environmentally friendy council housing, caps on private rent and service charges. Landlord and Housing Associations must be held accountable, so that everyone can afford a safe home in which to live comfortably.

Unfortunately, a lot of these HMOs are housing vulnerable people. There is a lack of domestic abuse services, a contributing factor to the rise of domestic violence especially in those HMOs. Certain individuals have serious mental health and drug related problems, and sadly it has coincided with a rise in anti social behaviour. They have been left to fend for themselves. Unfortunately, they are being deprived of the adequate social care and mental health support to help rehabilitate them back into society, so to lead normal lives. Unfortunately, it all coincides with a lack of social care facilties, and mental health services have also long been crippled with Austerity Cuts. Considering the size of North Hanwell population, there is a significant lack of NHS provisions and facilties for youth services. The last 16 year of Austerity is the biggest contributing factor in all this.

Restore Youth Services, and restore Social Care & Domestic Abuse Services.

Since 2010 until 2024, Ealing Labour had slashed on 70% of Youth services, as they passed on endless Tory led Austerity cuts without any resistance. What's their excuse now under a Starmer led Labour Government? Instead, they have planned the closure of 10 children's centres across the borough! They have failed to reopen Gurnell Leisure Centre, which had been closed since the pandemic, and awaiting refurbishment. 6 years later, it still remains closed, and has been put on the back burner.

Fight the Government to restore the money stolen from Ealing. Councils can fight cuts to twist the Government's arm into paying up.

Vote TUSC on Thursday May 7th!