Mystic Vlod only partially correct. No Dan Crawford but the losing North Acton Labour candidate has been replaced with Gareth Shaw, former councillor in Walpole ward and chief whip and thus presumably completely loyal to Peter Mason, the key criteria for selection in a seat Labour hope to win.
I’ve met and spoken to the Green candidate at a couple of election counts and she was perfectly pleasant. As she has been active in the Green Party for over a decade, one can presume she joined it for environmental reasons rather than to turn it into the People’s Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
And apropos the by election, I happened to be driving down Saxon Drive on Saturday morning and saw perhaps as many as 10 people in dayglo Greener Ealing jackets with brooms and implements to remove vegetation from gutters and between paving stones. I’d never seen Council employees doing this sort of thing at the weekend (and rarely during the week) but then I remembered that Saxon Drive is in North Acton ward. Feel free to call me cynical!
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