Prime Minister Theresa May is “a dead woman walking” who will inevitably face a leadership challenge, former Tory Chancellor George Osborne has said.
A similar situation seems to exist  in Harrow where many Tories are expecting Cllr Hall to step down as the leader of the opposition Tory group on the council. This opportunity arises as Cllr Hall is likely to be a London assembly member by default.
People rightly say that the opposition Tory group under its immature leadership can’t be taken seriously, particularly as it fails its important opposition role like to present a shadow budget to enrich the financial decision making.
Cllr Hall attacks plans to build much needed 186 homes, of which 41 per cent will be affordable, in Palmerston Road, Wealdstone – Cllr Hall has a shop in the area.
Cllr Hall now relies on cheap personal attacks .
Council time wasted! Many who attend the Harrow council cabinet meetings report personal attacks and disruptions by Councillor Hall and her deputy in trying to score petty political points, more so since the leader of the council Councillor Sachin Shah has chaired the meetings.
No surprise that the Tory group members wish to use their voice to make an impact and aim for change of direction to unite and demonstrate strength to voters (Tory group lost the councils in 2010 and 2014 as well as two by-elections in between, under Cllr Hall’s leadership) …  read more by clicking here
Although Cllr Hall’s presence was not welcomed at the recent general election Tory campaigns in Harrow, the Tory image under Cllr Hall leadership had serious implications for Tory candidates – Bob Blackman’s majority was brutally slashed from 4,757 in 2015 to 1,757 in Harrow East despite all his divisive politics, and Hannah David badly lost Harrow West giving Gareth Thomas (Lab) unprecedented +13.9 swing.

Bob Blackman retains Harrow East seat but with much reduced majority.
His retention is apparently because of how he sells himself – the Jewish Chronicle reported that he  describes himself as a “Chrinjew – a Christian with Jewish roots, and an honorary Hindu”.
Another reason for the result is that while he has canvassed in Harrow East for years (promoting his divisive politics), Navin Shah (Lab) had only few weeks to cover the constituency with minimum manpower and resources.
Navin Shah fought a clean campaign and did very well under the circumstances, achieving +5.3 swing and reducing Bob Blackman’s majority from 4,757 in 2015 to 2,757 1,757 (Blackman 25,129  Shah 23,372 – turnout 71.07%).
Gareth Thomas (Lab) effectively used massive resources and retained his Harrow West seat with much increased majority – from 2,208 in 2015 to 13,314 with +13.9 swing  (Thomas 30,640  David 17,326  –  turnout 72.33%).
Hannah David (Con) lost Harrow West once again, despite tremendous support from her party.
She had nothing really to offer to local residents except promoting Theresa May, who now appears to be political liability. Moreover, she could not distance herself from the divisive materials  
Both Tory candidates were wise enough not to profile the opposition Tory group leader Cllr Hall, who renders only political defeats 

Options

People’s leader Jeremy Corbyn: track record of inclusive policies and practices – for many and not few – honest and stable to rebuild and transform Britain – workable manifestos ready to be delivered – practical  and balanced approach to national security and international situations.
Theresa May: believed to remain in EU but now capitalising on Brexit – lacks sophistication of ideas at public debates (mostly declined), therefore uncertainty about her rigour at the EU negotiating table – damaging home security (information about terrorists not acted upon, working with the financial supporters of terrorists) –  “dementia tax” that endangers inheriting parents home (far more implications for Asian community) –  the elite funders of the Tories will be protected through tax havens and offshore trust structures – underfunding of NHS, police, and schools – younger generation will be over £50,000 in debt by the time they leave university.
Gareth Thomas and Navin Shah: from Harrow – previous Harrow councillors – focussing on local matters like improved funding for local services, more police for Harrow, a better connected Harrow and campaign against £500 per pupil cut across Harrow under Tory’s new funding formula.
Bob Blackman and Hannah David: from outside Harrow – divisive (have calculated their votes and show interest only in certain communities), avoiding local issues, leaning on the Conservative friends of this or that and trying hard to sell Tory brand name Theresa May.
Mr Blackman was questioned about employing his wife at his MP office with no regards to equal opportunities and that public taxes are paying for the wife and husband decides whether she is worth £35,000 or £45,000!
The Mirror reported that Bob Blackman MP was ordered to repay more than £1,000 in wrongly-claimed mileage.
Hannah David owns stake in husband’s firm that helps wealthy people pay less tax using tax havens, Mirror reported! Concern is how Hannah David can represent ordinary people in Harrow West who pay their taxes and yet see their NHS, police and public services cut.

Hannah David ‘owns stake in husband’s firm that helps wealthy people pay less tax using tax havens’, Mirror reports! Concern is how can Hannah David represent ordinary people in Harrow West who pay their taxes and yet see their NHS, police and public services cut.

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Leaflets
While people are wondering why sudden terror attacks before election, brutally killing innocent people, and who politically benefits from these barbaric acts, leaflets from the MP candidates are pouring through the Harrow letterboxes.
Harrow East Tory candidate Bob Blackman is avoiding local issues, leaning on temple blessings, the Conservative friends of this or that, Lord Popat’s letter to certain households and trying hard to sell Tory brand name Theresa May.
On the other hand, Labour candidate Navin Shah has focused on local matters like getting dedicated neighbourhood police teams and improved funding for local services.
Similarly Harrow West Labour candidate Gareth Thomas pledges for local issues like more police for Harrow, a better connected Harrow and to lead parliamentary campaign against £500 per pupil cut across Harrow under Tory’s new funding formula.
A rather interesting leaflet is from Harrow West UKIP candidate Rathy Alagaratham who has tried to make UKIP look normal with no mention of her party’s policies like introducing blue passports, ban on new immigrants using the NHS for five years, no automatic right to stay for EU migrants, prescribing what women should/ should not wear, to tighten regulation of ‘Jewish and Islamic butchery’, or the UKIP trump card ‘immigration’ and ‘Brexit’.  Perhaps she knew what is there in the Tory leaflet!
Harrow West Tory candidate Hannah David’s leaflet is all about Brexit, what Theresa May has done and intends to do – selling hard Theresa May. It looks Hannah David has nothing to offer to the voters.
Furthermore, as far as we know Hannah David has not distanced herself from the hateful materials.

The politics has rapidly turned: Theresa May’s rhetorical slogan ‘strong and stable leadership’ for Brexit has crumbled under public/ press scrutiny and eventually fizzled out, gaining the public given title ‘weak & wobbly’.
Also, regarding Theresa May’s absence from TV debates, question posed is: if she can’t debate, can she negotiate?
Seeing the disastrous TV performances by their leader, some weak Tory candidates, including in Harrow, are now avoiding public forums.
Tory candidates for Harrow East and Harrow West, Bob Blackman and Hannah David, respectively, are trying to avoid Harrow voters serious concerns about:
•social care “Dementia Taxes” which will deprive hard-working Harrow families of their inheritance
•Harrow NHS receives less money per head with the implications like the Harrow Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) running deficit budget and adversely effecting patient care
•main Harrow police station threatened with closure
•Bob Blackman supporting fox hunting – barbaric way of killing animals
•Bob Blackman was ordered to repay £1000 for “inaccurate mileage expenses” by the parliamentary standards authority
•divisive politics [1], [2]
Hannah David’s position becomes more shaky as she has turned down invitation to hustings.

If true, this raises concerns about the firmness of the candidate and her priorities for and  interest in Harrow residents.
A Harrow West resident’s comment sums up the general feelings about Tory absence: “I’m shocked that the Conservative keeps avoiding chances to meet Harrow voters – what is she hiding?”

Those in Harrow who need medical care not only suffer because of concerning access to services, waiting lists at the hospitals and shortcomings in other healthcare coverage due to the government under funding NHS, but also because of a clinician decision whether a patient meets the evidence-based thresholds for treatment defined in the Planned Procedure with a limited Threshold (PPwT) policy and which requires funding approval from the authority running a deficit budget.
There are thirty three  procedures covered under PPwT policy, including cataract surgery, grommets in children, hip replacement, correcting a deformity of the nasal septum and open MRI, for which individual funding request has to be made to the NHS Harrow Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) where  the  treatment falls under the ‘not normally funded’ category.
According to the information we received under FoI provision, Harrows CCG received 159 requests since January 2015 for individual funding, out of which many were declined (page 3).
Requests included for IVF (in vitro fertilisation), breast augmentation and laser treatment for acne.
The Harrow CCG responsible for planning and buying (commissioning) many of the health services needed by the approximately 260,000 people registered with GPs in Harrow, considers the requests for medical treatment on an individual patient basis
The Harrow CCG is planning for a £21m in year deficit in 2017/2018.
The budget deficit situation also impacts the quality of GP services as Harrow CCG has now taken  full responsibility for the management of the primary care medical services where GPs have to operate within the tight finances allowed to them.

Open letter to Hannah David, MP candidate for Harrow West

Our attention has been drawn to a number of posts by a Joe David (your son?) sharing the work of the TKM  News (The Keffiyeh Monitor) and Stand With Us:  evidence  videos & posts
The posts look divisive, particularly pretty anti-Islamic, both from the posts Joe David shared and others from the news sites.
The posts give the impression that all Muslims in Britain are radicalised and anti-Semitic which is not true as your own election experience would confirm.  Such negativity is seen being rude about a minority group.
We think you should distance yourself from the worrying posts which appear incredibly divisive in a seat like Harrow West that has a large Muslim population.

We can’t support Bob Blackman because we strongly believe that an MP should represent all constituents on equal footing without taking sides, stirring up religious emotions for votes and dividing the communities in the process.
We can’t support his divisive politics that has recently been rejected by the leaders of the community concerned.
Moreover, referring to 2015 Harrow East Tory campaign, fortnightly columnist at Hindustan Times Sunny Hundal‏ tweeted, “This is astonishing. Tory MP in London playing Hindu divide-and-rule caste politics with leaflets for Hindus. Nasty”.
Thousands of leaflets were distributed urging people to vote Tory so that legislation outlawing caste discrimination could be blocked.
Describing the Harrow Tories’ “unashamedly religiously divisive” tactics at the last general election, the then Labour candidate for Harrow East Uma Kumaran said they “really brought the worst politics of the sub-continent into our general election campaign”.
“Sinking to those depths certainly left divisions in Harrow – you can’t claim to represent everyone if that’s how you win” she stated.
Also, we have first-hand knowledge of Mr Blackman’s divisive politics when he was the leader of the Brent council and we were Brent council officers.
He came under fire after he tweeted that he was glad he had blocked moves by Brent Council to honour Nelson Mandela.
Furthermore, there are concerns about his use of the public money: Mr Blackman was questioned about employing his wife at his MP office with no regards to equal opportunities and that public taxes are paying for the wife and husband decides whether she is worth £35,000 or £45,000!
The Mirror reported that Bob Blackman MP was ordered to repay more than £1,000 in wrongly-claimed mileage.

While Bob Blackman and Hannah David are busy in spreading the hysteria that Brexit would collapse without Theresa May as the prime minister, and infiltrating in Indian origin families and temples, a dominant feature of their electoral politics, they are ignoring the Harrow issues:
•£15m cuts to Harrow schools
•threat of closing down police station and inadequacy of police officers – lost 160 officers in Harrow since 2010
•Conservative rate rises damaging businesses
•inadequate funding for Northwick Park and Harrow CCG (clinical commissioning group)
•need for more affordable housing: over 700 households in temporary accommodation and an additional 700 on waiting list for social housing – the demand continues to outweigh the supply
Regarding Theresa May: can she be trusted to lead Britain, given:
•U-turn on ‘dementia tax’: first saying she wouldn’t cap the cost of social care and then changing her mind when hit with bad headlines – though sugar coated, the threat is still there
•wanted to deal with the huge pay packets of CEOs but when corporations kicked up a fuss, she U-turned
•promised that NHS spending would increase every year but the amount spent per person has fallen
•funding for every school pupil was supposed to increase but spending per pupil is being cut for the first time since the 1990s according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies
•unconditionally supporting Donald Trump who is putting the UK to the back of the queue on future trade deals despite his original promise to prioritise us after Brexit
•avoiding scrutiny from the public and the press e.g. shying away from TV debates

Many who attend the Harrow council cabinet meetings report personal attacks and disruptions by Councillor Hall and her deputy in trying to score petty political points, more so since the leader of the council Councillor Sachin Shah has chaired the meetings.
Criticising the administration is one thing but hateful personal attacks, as reported by the Harrow Times, is a very different and concerning matter.
More recently at the cabinet meeting on 27 April 2017, Cllr Hall (photo)  heavily targeted Cllr Whitehead and  asked 24 questions regarding Cllr Whitehead’s official visit overseas.
If Cllr Hall saw anything suspicious about the visit, there are many internal procedures to probe and the Standards regime at the council is one of these.
Councillors are given 15 minutes at the cabinet meetings, standard procedures for many years, to ask questions about the work of the council. Cllr Hall shows no respect to the procedures.
At the cabinet meeting on 27 April 2017, Cllr Hall asked, “Why have you failed to answer 88 of our questions from the Cabinet meeting on 16th February” and she along with a few  of her councillors asked further 72 questions at the meeting.
There is no way such a high volume of questions could be answered in 15 minutes at the meeting. In any case, most of the questions are for point scoring or could easily be discussed with the officers through the regular opposition’s briefings.
It is a known fact that officers prepare answers to the written questions – preparing answers to the hundreds of fun questions is a huge drain on the council’s shrinking resources and  thus has serious implications for the services to residents.
Added to all this is the sort of childish behaviour that the Harrow Times reported, “Cllr Hall continued to ask questions, despite being told her allocated time was up. She held up a megaphone created from a blue piece of paper, which she had made before the meeting, and said to Cllr Shah: I’m tired of you turning my microphone off.”
People rightly say that the opposition Tory  group under its immature leadership can’t be taken seriously, particularly as it fails its important role like to present a shadow budget to enrich the financial decision making ….  read more by clicking here
Hope Cllr Hall’s concerning council  behaviour would not extend to London assembly that is also headed by an Asian.
Cllr Hall is likely to be an assembly member purely by chance!