Blog – Page 3 – Varinder Singh Bola | Councillor for Cranbrook ward, London Borough of Redbridge

Del Singh Memorial Award — Working across the Labour movement

31 Aug

The Labour Party has issued a call for nominations for its Best Practice Awards which are aimed at celebrating our members achievements and the fantastic things they do by nominating CLPs, MPs, Assembly Members, MSPs or local campaign teams to receive a...
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Concerned about Housing? Call on the Mayor of London and Secretary of State to approve the Draft Redbridge Local Plan

29 Aug

Redbridge Labour is calling on residents to get behind and support the council’s draft local plan by calling on the Mayor of London and Secretary of State to approve it. To support the statement: “Redbridge has an ever increasing housing...
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“We weren’t born with liberty, we had to win it” – Nye Bevan

26 Aug

Private Rented Property Licensing Scheme Consultation

26 Aug

Whether you are a private tenant, landlord, business, stakeholder or Redbridge resident we want to hear your views on proposals to bring in two property licensing schemes for private rented properties across 14 wards in the Borough. The scheme aims...
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A new three digit number is launching for power cuts

23 Aug

On 6th September a new national phone number “105” will be launched by electricity network operators for customers to call should they need to report or get information about a power cut in their area. What is 105? 105 is...
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Liberal Councillors look ‘peanuts’ about Charlie Brown’s roundabout

22 Aug

Today, Liberal Democrat’s Councillor Gwyneth Deakins slammed the efforts of Redbridge Labour Councillors Jas Athwal, Wes Streeting and Lloyd Duddridge after they resolved years of issues at the notorious Charlie Brown’s Roundabout, saying their efforts were “garbage”. Further, her colleague...
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Varinder backs Owen Smith for Leader

3 Aug

Over 750 Labour councillors have now signed a public letter supporting Owen Smith for Leader In a month’s time, we will be casting our votes for Owen Smith as Leader because we believe this is the only path forward to...
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Neil Kinnock’s speech to the Parliamentary Labour Party (04/07/16)

7 Jul

Lord Neil Kinnock delivers a fiery speech to the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP): [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/272635873″ params=”color=de0000&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] God knows, everybody here, no matter how old or how young, should understand the lessons. And never repeat that again....
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Food for thought: Are Labour members succumbing to anti-expert sentiment?

5 Jul

A Facebook user named Josh Lawrence posted a very interesting post on the London Young Labour group page: Are Labour members succumbing to the same type of anti-expert sentiment that propelled the Leave campaign’s success and put Micheal Gove into...
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The Shami Chakrabarti Inquiry

30 Jun

In April 2016, the Leader of the Labour Party, appointed the former Liberty Director, Shami Chakrabarti, as Chair of an inquiry into antisemitism and other forms of racism including islamophobia, within the party. He also appointed Professor David Feldman, Director...
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