Democracy Club website helps us to hold candidates to account, and stimulate public engagement in the campaigns for local and national elections. Big job… lots of small tasks. The website helps residents to track and contact candidates, create local issue lists and track the responses from candidates. Check out Brent Central, Brent North and Hampstead and Kilburn at the DemocracyClub website and join in.

LibDem Voice has some news on Brent Centrals dirty politics. Labour Minister Dawn Butler has issued a legal apology to Sarah Teather for calling her a hypocrite over MPs’ expenses. Butler made the accusation while the running of Sarah Teather’s office was under investigation. The Parliamentary Standards Commissioner later dropped the investigation because there were no grounds to suspect any wrongdoing by Ms Teather. This issue came up at the MapRA Hustings on Monday night....

Bums on seats…. And more….. ...

Election hustings and MapRA AGM at St. Gabriel’s Church, Walm Lane, tonight. Click on for a map. ...

Completed nomination papers accompanied by the deposit of £500 must be delivered to the Acting Returning Officer at the offices of the London Borough of Brent not later than 4pm on Tuesday, 20th April 2010. You can view / download the election notices at Brent Council’s website.