Ive borrowed this from a friend, but it is 100% exactly right. "The Starmer project is collapsing under the weight of its own emptiness".
Hillingdon Labour have changed thier position on the 3rd runway. Under my leadership it was an unequivocally 100% against further expansion & a commitment to campaign with the residents against the runway. This is a cop out !!!
In 2022, Hillingdon Labour, under my leadership, achieved their best election results for 24 years. The canvass returns (over 6 wards) for Hayes Independent Party suggest 2026 will be Hillingdon Labour's worst results ever. Looking like a complete Labour wipeout youtube.com/watch?v=m4If...
NEW 📀 Wipe Out - The Surfaris {DES Stereo} 1963
YouTube video by Smurfstools Oldies Music Time Machine
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Here's a tip to anyone who stands for election 70 miles from their home and wants to campaign on potholes. First check wich roads are; Private, non-adopted, managed by TfL, or Highways Agency. Then concentrate on the roads under the council's management.
Heathrow expansion would add another 765 flights every day delivering industrial‑scale noise and pollution across London & the South East. #NoThirdRunway Join our campaign now: www.no3rdrunwaycoalition.co.uk
The Preston model of community wealth building is well known in the #Cooperative World - it broke new ground on ensuring local economies work for local people by turning the traditional economic approach on its head and putting people at the heart of decision making,
First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped. Yet the Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our voting system, which leaves millions unrepresented. Tell Keir Starmer to change this. actionnetwork.org/petitions/th...
The Representation of the People Bill MUST scrap First Past the Post
First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped. Yet the new Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our rotten voting system, which lea...
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Well this tweet has not aged well. .... and to think, this is the party, that after 25 years dedicated membership and public office, told me that I lacked political judgement! Im so glad Ive left a party that has descended into the cesspit of misinformation & opportunism.
Another U-turn - Another promise made, Another promise broken ! Oh so typical of this awful government. BBC News - Ministers reject Waspi calls for compensation after rethink - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ministers reject Waspi calls for compensation after rethink
Women hit by changes to the state pension age say the decision shows
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The council's budget consultation is open until Wednesday 4th February, Here is the submission from Ahmad Rafique, Hayes Independent Party member in Wood End. The link to the public consultation is at the bottom of the web page. www.hayesindependent.org.uk/news/2920423...
The Hayes Independent Party website is live, but a work in progress, still more to do over the coming weeks and months www.hayesindependent.org.uk
Hayes Independent Party
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Happy Birthday to my mum. 93 today !!! The photo is one of my favourites from last year. She is just getting over an infection, so we cant go out today, be we will have a nice Coffee and cake at home this afternoon.
My grandad's war medals are now in a nice display frame with his photo
My statement following last night's full council meeting.
The authoritarian and toxic environment that has been cultivated in the Hillingdon Labour Party has resulted in chaos, with a very rapid decline in terms of membership and those willing to put themselves forward for public office. www.mylondon.news/news/west-lo...
West London Labour group unable to find enough female candidates for 2026
The party has reportedly deselected councillors all over London ahead of the 2026 local elections prompting several to defect to rivals
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Its not the pace of change people are disappointed with, Its the lack of change & the ever increasing move to the right. Labour needs to be Labour, not an imitation of Reform, or the Tories. Labour2win have made the party totally unelectable. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
No 10 accepts people are ‘disappointed with the pace of change’ as Plaid Cymru celebrates Caerphilly byelection win – UK politics live
Lindsay Whittle seized the Senedd constituency from Labour and resisted a fierce challenge from Reform UK
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Got my Grandad's war medals from the MOD. Don't know what happened to the originals, So I applied for the replacements from the MOD. They arrived yesterday. Lance Corporal, Dennis Curling was awarded The 1939-45 Star, The Italy Star, and The war medal, for his service in REME
I am very pleased that the Met Police have listened to me & other #Hillingdon residents and thought again about closing Hayes police station's front counter. It's unacceptable that under the previous proposal, NW London would be without a counter service. news.met.police.uk/news/met-pol...
Met Police progress in closing £260m funding gap
27 police front counters will remain open
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In the words of Neil Kinnock ..... A Labour council, a LABOUR council, hiring taxis and skuttling around the city handing section 21 eviction notices to its own tenants !!!! This is what factional control freakery leads to. Absolutely appalling. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Revealed: Labour-run council using legal loophole to serve families with no-fault evictions
Exclusive: London council created an arm’s-length body to manage some of its housing stock
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Pleased to announce Cllr Scott Farley joined the Hayes Independent Party this morning, after leaving the Labour Party & its toxic environment in September. So its a warm welcome to Scott, who is now the 5th member of the Hayes Independent group on the council.
I would like to officially welcome Cllr Rita Judge to the Hayes Independent Party Group of councillors. Rita left the Labour Party and joined us. So our group is growing. Now, up to 4 councillors. With the prospect of more to join.
What better on a showery Friday afternoon, than a trip to Windsor and Eton and a coffee and delicious Orange cake at the wonderful Enigma Eton coffee shop.
Today is 29th August and in Sainsbury's we have Panettone, mince pies and Christmas puddings. They all have use by dates long before Christmas.
This is why there is a housing crisis. Its not immigration, its the lack of social housing with truly affordable rents. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
England to sell eight times more council homes than it built last year, report finds
Depletion of social housing stock spurs calls for councils to have first refusal to buy ex-council homes entering market
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Food for thought .... Manipulation is when they focus on how you reacted instead of how they treated you
So a foreign owned company thats got £17 billion debt, proposes to spend £49 billion on a major project that includes rerouting roads & rivers etc with the best outcome being just 0.43% growth, which will be wiped out by the inevitable government bail out. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Heathrow Airport's third runway expansion plans to cost £49bn
Heathrow says expansion is
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Heathrow’s misleading visualisation. In fact building a third runway over 1200 hectares of green belt, 2 villages, 5 rivers and the M25 will be catastrophic and unimaginably disruptive for the environment and people www.colnevalleypark.org.uk/heathrow-pos... #HeathrowExpansion @NoR3Coalition
Heathrow Expansion – the Colne Valley Regional Park’s position - Colne Valley Regional Park
We remain publicly and determinedly opposed to the plans to expand Heathrow Airport, which will cut the Park in two, changing it for ever. 1200 acres of Green Belt will be lost and many more hundreds ...
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Hillingdon Labour Group's new Leadership says its opposition to a 3rd runway remains unchanged, but they will "Revisit" the issue when further plans are published. Humm, looks like they are getting ready to betray the residents of the Heathrow villages and beyond. www.mylondon.news/news/west-lo...
'Labour tried to pressure me to back 3rd runway - we can't lose local autonomy'
EXCLUSIVE: Hillingdon Labour says its position is unchanged, but admits it will "revisit" the issue when further plans are published
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