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The next chapter in months of disagreement between the two political parties represented on Hillingdon Council on the right of Councillors to scrutinise Council decisions took form in a motion submitted by Councillor Tony Eginton. The motion, submitted to be considered by all 65 members of Hillingdon Council on Thursday night, called for the controversial decision

Hillingdon Council should allow police officers to use its Civic Centre building for a base, and spend the £5m earmarked for purchase of the Uxbridge police station to invest in public facilities for Hillingdon residents. This was an amendment proposed by Labour Cllr Stuart Mathers at Thursday’s meeting of the Full Council. The original motion submitted

A motion submitted by Hillingdon Labour Councillor Stuart Mathers on modern slavery passed at Full Council on Thursday night – once the Conservatives had amended the motion to refer the Modern Slavery Charter to Cabinet for consideration, rather than it be adopted by a vote at Full Council. The original motion submitted by Cllr Mathers

A motion submitted to last week’s meeting calling on the Council to approach the Local Government Association (LGA) to carry out a review into scrutiny procedures was unsurprisingly rejected by the Hillingdon Conservatives who currently control the make up of the Council. There have been recent changes to the way in which Councillors are entitled

“I know what it is like to be called a ‘paki’, or a ‘wog’, to be strung up on my first day of senior school because I was a different colour” were the words of Hillingdon Labour Councillor Jazz Dhillon when proposing his motion on Islamophobia to the Hillingdon Council meeting that took place last week.