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Ealing Independents announce their candidate for Southall Green

Wed 27 Oct 2021
Ealing independents announces Southall candidate to compete against current Ealing Labour and council leader Peter Mason in the ward of Southall Green for the May 2022 Ealing Council elections.

Ealing Independents, the grassroots group founded by Ealing resident Leslie Bunder is delighted to announce the first of its many candidates who will be standing for Ealing Independents in the forthcoming May 2022 Ealing elections.

These independent candidates will represent their local community and are the first of many to be standing across all towns of Ealing which include Acton, Ealing, Greenford, Hanwell, Northolt, Perivale, and Southall.

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Ealing Independents, the grassroots group standing up for all Ealing residents, is proud to announce that members of the public who wish to improve the lives of their local communities in towns such as Southall are to stand as candidates in their local wards in the May 2022 Ealing elections.

These independent candidates, as councillors, will ensure that all Ealing residents and businesses in its seven towns (Acton, Ealing, Greenford, Hanwell, Northolt, Perivale, Southall) have better services to improve life in Ealing and make it better, safer, cleaner and greener.

Unlike the current leader of Ealing Council, Labour's Peter Mason who doesn’t live in the ward he is councillor for and has failed to hold any resident surgeries (including virtual) for over a year despite having a contract to do so, Ealing Independents councillors live and are a part of community the wards they will represent.

"I moved to Southall Green fifteen years ago. I live with my wife and two young children, who attend school and nursery in Southall," says Southall Green resident and candidate for councillor David Marsden.

"I’ve worked in Southall for the last six years supporting better neighbourhoods in West London, and Southall in particular."

"I’ve been a leading campaigner in the fight for Clean Air for Southall and Hayes, and I’ve opposed the unsafe development of the highly toxic old Gasworks site at Council meetings and community protests."

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Marsden added: "I’ve been an active local Labour party member since 2019. Ordinary Labour party members and a few councillors have always shown solidarity and offered practical help. But we have all been blocked from changing anything for the better by former Ealing Labour Council Leader Julian Bell and his successor Peter Mason, who is also an elected councillor for Southall Green ward. Both are very much on the right wing of the party, and only interested in serving their own interests, not the interests of the people of Southall, whose votes they take for granted."

"Both Bell and Mason accepted over £30,000 in gifts and hospitality from the Gasworks developers, yet refused to openly and transparently declare their financial interests at the public meeting in 2019. Mason, as chair of that meeting, tried to prevent me from speaking to reveal that one of the chemicals being dug up at the Gasworks site, and one of the main causes of the bad smell, is potentially fatal to some people with Asian and African genetic heritage."

"Instead of standing up for residents in his own council ward, Mason took time off to get a Masters degree in Town Planning. Now we are faced with tower blocks going up everywhere, 10,000 new homes, 40,000 new residents and their cars. No wonder they want us all to get on our bikes!"

"It’s clear that Mason’s and Labour’s priorities are not in the best interests of Southall residents. It’s time to tell Mason and Labour to get on their bikes, and get out of Southall!"

"If elected as an Ealing Independents councillor, I will stand up and make sure that the voices of Southall people are heard in the Council Chamber and elsewhere. I will fight for the rights of Southall people to live, work, learn and play in a cleaner, safer Southall that we can all be proud to call home."

"I will always be open to listen to people’s problems, concerns, ideas and suggestions in person, by phone, text, email, WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook and any other means where possible. I will make sure Southall people’s views are represented."

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