Category: BALL, Cllr Tony (Cty Cllr for Wickford Crouch and fmr. Leader of Basildon Council)

BASILDON LOCAL ELECTIONS 2018 It’s that time of the year again and local elections are upon us. We have fifteen seats on Basildon Borough Council up for grabs to determine who will take charge of the Council, which has been in No Overall Control since 2014. The Council is presently led by a coalition of…

Firstly, an apology. I never wrote up the last meeting of Full Council, which I think is a first. I decided to wait for the audio recording to go on the website, as it makes it much easier for me to do the write-up but, low and behold, the Council’s audio-recording system failed again and,…

As I come to write up last Thursday’s meeting of Full Council, I would just ask readers to bear with me, as this was a mammoth SEVEN-HOUR meeting that went on until two o’clock in the morning. The meeting started at 7pm, earlier than usual, with a special Extraordinary Meeting to consider two nominations for…

Believe it or not, it has taken me about a week to recover from Polling Day. I have never fought a General Election campaign before – in 2010, I stayed up with a friend and watched the result coming in on the telly – so to do so as an agent, running an MP’s re-election campaign,…

It is now officially Polling Day and chronic insomnia allows me this opportunity to make some election night predictions and speak briefly about the elections before us – not just the General Election to Parliament but also our own local borough council elections. Every politician says at every election that it is “the most important…

I just wanted to record some thoughts on last Thursday

Not quite ‘the morning after the night before’, considering the night before did not actually end until 4 o’clock this morning and I am now writing this at 7 o’clock in the evening on what is technically the same day, having just regained some sense of equilibrium – but you take my meaning. I am obviously still feeling…

Election time is upon us, with Polling Day on Thursday 22nd May for Basildon Borough Council and also for the European Parliament. It has been nice getting out in Billericay East ward and getting to meet with and chat to many of you. It has been a little under a year now since I won…

Britain has held its nerve, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has stuck to his Plan A, and the UK economy is on the mend as a result! Thanks to George Osborne’s decision to ignore the advice of Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls and change course, the UK economy is now growing again. There is still a…

My inaugural post on this new website must be to reiterate a massive thank-you to everyone who helped me win the Billericay East bye-election – first and foremost my agent, Cllr Stuart Sullivan. Also my family for their constant support, especially my beautiful fiancée, Nicole, for her constant encouragement. I now look forward to getting…