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Double Protest

In the interests of efficiency and democracy tonight I had the dubious pleasure of attending two protests outside the Town Hall at the same time. By far the biggest protest(300) was against the allocation of the entire voluntary sector older peoples services budget for the next 3.5 years to one organisation, Southall Neighbourly Care. Age UK Ealing's consortium including Southall Day Centre has been left with no funding from Ealing. This will have an immediate and severe effect on services to Ealing's older people. There was no paper information available from Ealing's award winning press office to explain this "strange" decision. I choose my words with care.The other protest was against the decision without debate, facts or discussion to award every household in Ealing with two yes two wheelie bins. This award was in recognition that my current recycle rate is approaching 100%. I can't think why I was protesting. It is a brilliant decision by cabinet to clutter the pretty streets of our borough. They don't like democracy and neither do you sorry do I. Let's just scrap ordinary councillors because they and we were not involved in this discussion and the award winning press office that tells us nothing and just let cabinet run the caboodle under the radar. And don't anyone dare say it is in cabinet papers without providing me with a precis in hard copy. Julian get those slabs of rock out and get cabinet members chiselling. Just can't wait for the next authoritarian surprise from the mountain. Or do you make do with Northalla Fields?

Arthur Breens ● 4070d3 Comments ● 4063d

Alice Gross Inquest

Perhaps I am too much in thrall to conspiracy theories, but does it strike anyone else as suspicious that a file has been lost by the coroner in this case and this seems likely to put the whole inquest into limbo?Firstly, why were Alice's parents not informed of this earlier?  The file was supposedly lost in November and it is now late July.Secondly, why is whatever information the file contained not retrievable?  Was it not copied or scanned in case of loss?  Was there only one copy extant?  If so, surely this is very careless?This is terrible for Alice's parents.  They are entitled to a full inquiry into the circumstances of their daughter's death.It has always seemed somewhat suspicious to me that the chief suspect for this crime so neatly took his own life, thus obviating the need for any further police enquiries.  It is not beyond the bounds of possibility that others, as yet unknown, were involved.  What better way to ensure a man's silence than to hang him in a place where the body will be very difficult to find and advanced decomposition will have taken place before it is discovered? Lastly, if everything took place as we have been led to believe, why did no-one stumble across Zalkalns as he was committing the crime?  The canal towpath and Fitzherbert Walk are reasonably busy as a short-cut to/from Brentford.  How can he have muffled her cries or hidden her body without detection?What do others think, or am I alone in my suspicions?

Thelma Leach ● 4071d6 Comments ● 4068d