Brent East Campaigning

I picked up a copy of Brent East News published by Yasmin and the BE Labour Party when in Queen’s Park on Monday. Under the headline ‘Delivering for You’ there is a photo of three police officers with a caption ‘Brent now has more than fifty extra police officers’. Fifty Extra Police on Brent streetsYasmin Qureshi’s police, beating round the bush. Fifty extra police officers! Shame that three of the fifty extra police officers in Brent East are on walkabout in Shepherds Bush....

Brent Stop The War are holding a General Election Candidate Hustings… ‘…to answer your questions about where they stand on the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the withdrawal of troops and associated issues of Palestine, the “war on terror” and the attack on civil liberties.’ Here is the flyer. It’ll be held at Dudden Hill Community Centre, TONIGHT 7.00 pm

From Brent Council’s email alert service: Postal Vote Application Deadline: The deadline to apply for a new postal vote is Tuesday 26th April at 5pm. Please make sure all applications have arrived at the Town Hall by that time. You can deliver them in person should you wish. Telephone 020 8937 1372 or e-mail using the link below if you need any assitance. E-mail Electoral Services mailto:electoral.services@brent.gov.uk Brent’s General Election Pages http://www....

Chris, a reader of this blog, writes: Hi Rob, Maybe you were there tonight. If so, I’m wasting your time. If not, highlights included: Kwasi (who, incidentally, and I appreciate this is always the luck of the draw, is the only candidate I have seen campaigning in the streets) being compared to Boris Johnson; a nice Irish chap pointing out that some Candidate for Kilburn’s Beleaguered Motorists (really?...

The candidates from Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats are all highlighting crime in their campaigns. But do we need ‘more police on patrol to make our area safer for all’? (Sarah Teather - Standing Up For You) Has the fear of crime ‘increased’ in Brent? (Kwasi Kwarteng - In Touch) Is ‘crime and the fear of crime and issue for every neighbourhood in London’? (Yasmin Qureshi - Mapesbury Labour News) If you’d like to see the crime statistics for Brent, the Met have great interactive map, but data looks better as text only....