Queen's Park Tower Plan

The proposal for the tower block in Queen’s Park is a lead topic for each of the parties contesting the electoral ward of Queen’s Park. For Labour it is getting like the Monty Python topic not to be mentioned in front of our hosts for the World Cup. The Lib Dems have made great gains from this thread - well, a sitting (yet not restanding) Councillor defected to Team Yellow with the tower plan as a key issue....

April 23, 2006 · 1 min · Rob Dyke

QP Greens letters on tower block development

I noticed these letters written by Dr Shahrar Ali, Green Party candidate for Queen’s Park along with Rupert Degas, to Brent area newspapers recently. On Brent Labour Council tower block imperatives:“Whilst this may not come as a revelation to seasoned campaigners, the public admission is a sign of desperation: a local government that denies responsibility for actions that it is going to take on our behalf but against our will."On the timing of the planning process:...

April 19, 2006 · 1 min · Rob Dyke

Will Brent Vote Blue and Go Green?

Are you serious? Each day I walk from Mapesbury to Queen’s Park via Brondesbury/Kilburn wards - sounds like a round about route but I’m just walking cross the boundry corners. In contrast to the General Election last year there are not many posters out on display in gardens and in the shop windows in support of ANY political party up for election in May. However I have noticed that of the posters that are on display the Green’s and the Liberal Democrats have strong support....

April 19, 2006 · 1 min · Rob Dyke

Tower Politics

Over at stopthetower a recent email news update has been posted by Barney Cokeliss. Go read it for the stopthetower campaign group’s update on the proposed tower block development in Queen’s Park. Barney, Will and the gang have not yet got the hang of the idea that as the web is always on, 24hrs a day they can update their website with information as it happens, without having to wait for lots of things to report and then produce a newsletter....

April 19, 2006 · 2 min · Rob Dyke

Brent Conservatives Unavailable?

I’ve been trying to contact the websites of the Brent East Conservatives and Kwasi Kwarteng. I know they were available during the General Election last year but now they are uncontactable… kwasi kwarteng www com and Brent East Conservatives unavailable dot com

April 13, 2006 · 1 min · Rob Dyke