Liberal Democrats Make Gains in Local Elections

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Gary Malcolm says "it was a great result"

Liberal Democrats have gained two new Councillors in the Ealing local elections. In Southfield all three Councillors are now Liberal Democrats after Andrew Steed took a seat from the Conservative Party.

Across Ealing Council the Conservative party lost many seats leaving Ealing Council now run by the Labour party. The turnout in Southfield ward was 77% and much higher than the average for the borough. 

Councillor Gary Malcolm said: “It was a great result for the Liberal Democrats and we now have more Councillors than ever before. We all look forward to getting the Council to introduce policies which will help residents such as our Council Customer Charter that would ensure more residents were treated fairly by the Council.”

Gary Malcolm said: “We thank all those residents who voted and had their say in the local or the general elections.”

Some of the details relating to the charter are as follows:

• Consult more residents and users on local issues as many are missed out
• Answer correspondence more promptly and tell telephone operators to give their names
• Parking Attendants to use  hand-held computers so they can detect if a car owner has a permit instead of fining residents who then have to dispute the parking ticket
• A greater share of Council monies to be agreed by the local community instead of 99.99% being dictated  by Ealing centrally
• When failings occur, Council staff and councillors should be required to explain themselves.

 

May 13, 2010