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Jon Ball

@libdemjon.bsky.social
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🔶Lib Dem Councillor for Ealing Common ward since 2002. Deputy Leader, Ealing Council Lib Dem group. Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery trustee. Works in TV, film and commercials. Father. Unfeasibly tall. Was young once. He/him.

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Jon Ball @libdemjon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
At the very well-attended demo outside Perceval House and then observed tonight's Cabinet, where Ealing's Labour Cabinet voted to "agree in principle to the proposal to grant a lease to Troubadour ... for the provision of a temporary theatre in Walpole Park for 3 ½ years" despite vocal opposition.
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Look, if I were in the middle of denying I'd participated in a straw donor scheme to launder illegal political donations from inadmissible donors, I probably wouldn't want to be caught on camera setting up a different straw donor scheme to launder illegal political donations from inadmissible donors
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Jon Ball @libdemjon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Hounslow Planning committee APPROVED the 5-year Gunnersbury Park large events application by 8 votes to 2 with 2 abstentions and 1 Cllr who arrived late not allowed to vote. This was with the addition of a community involvement condition which will perhaps require some free tickets for residents.
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Jon Ball @libdemjon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I'm attending the Hounslow Council Planning Committee meeting where the deferred application for a 5-year permission for large events for up to 30,000 at Gunnersbury Park is being determined. l've sent an objection on behalf of myself and my Ealing Common ward colleagues to all committee members.
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Jon Ball @libdemjon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Is this the low taper fade that the cool kids have? @politicaltrims.bsky.social
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
It’s election week! At this important moment I would like to address your entire planet with a message to the people of Earth. And I think I found the perfect place to do it.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
53,800 of these bad boys are landing in Clacton. Ain’t they beauts? #VoteBinface
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Jon Ball @libdemjon.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
More fraud.
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Jon Ball @libdemjon.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
There is a grass fire in Gunnersbury Park. @LFBEaling are now in attendance.
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Jon Ball @libdemjon.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
If you're in Ealing and water isn't coming out of your taps, here's why: www.thameswater.co.uk/network-late...
thameswater.co.uk
W5, W7 & W13 - Mountfield Rd 18/06/2026 | Thames Water
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Jon Ball @libdemjon.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Lib Dem Cllr Mark Sanders challenged the portfolio holder re the number of complaints going to the ombudsman. The portfolio holder claims not to be complacent but also says that everything in the complaints handling process is getting better.
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Jon Ball @libdemjon.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Lib Dem @Oxley9Jonathan challenged the Ealing Labour portfolio holder on why LBE didn't use Grant Thornton's valuations for the Broadway Living assets. She claimed those figures were out of date one year on due to house prices increasing.
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Jon Ball @libdemjon.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
@bskyplays.bsky.social play HhGTTG
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Jon Ball @libdemjon.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
At a Licensing Committee meeting. Great to be accompanied by my colleagues @conniehersch.bsky.social and @athenazissimos.bsky.social. Before the big Lib Dem gains in Ealing at the last local elections we had one member on each committee.
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Jon Ball @libdemjon.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I'm disappointed to see @rupahuq.bsky.social on this list. A customs union is the first step to rejoining Europe.
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Jon Ball @libdemjon.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
A new haircut ahead of the next political challenge... the North Acton council by-election!
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 07/05/2026
Arrived early to vote, and there's a Skoda with steamed up windows in the car park #doggingatpollingstations
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Jon Ball @libdemjon.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
An excellent Lib Dem initiative... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Lib Dems pledge £5,000 cash rewards for illegal waste tip-offs
The party says the payouts would help tackle an
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Jon Ball @libdemjon.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
My thoughts go out to the family of those involved in the tragic accident in Elthorne Park today.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Kate Garraway, "You would like Keir Starmer to step down?" Ed Davey, "Either he misled parliament, or his government is totally incompetent"
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Politics UK @politicsuk.com · 16/04/2026
🚨 NEW: An anonymous Government Minister has now called for Keir Starmer to resign "This is a tipping point. There can be no more excuses; we're past apologies and there cannot be another fall person in the form of Olly Robbins. The PM must go" [@breeallegretti]
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 12/04/2026
Has anyone noticed that wherever JD Vance goes, he just makes a mess. In Munich he insulted European allies. In Greenland he turned everyone against Trump. And now he’s helped Viktor Orbán lose re-election. Maybe better to spend more time on the couch VP.
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Jon Ball @libdemjon.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Ealing planning Committee: Application for new light industrial units to replace Nijjar Dairy in Eastman Road, W3, GRANTED unanimously with the addition of a condition I proposed requiring detailed management of the use of the break area and car park.
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Jon Ball @libdemjon.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Very good point from @thedoctorkhan.bsky.social that the diversity of juries makes them fairer to diverse defendants than judges and magistrates who tend to be less representative of the population.
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Jon Ball @libdemjon.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
An unusual Ealing Council meeting where the Labour administration performed a series of u-turns perhaps copying Starmer. A u-turn on stopping using the Log Cabin's after school club, a u-turn on the area of the Warren Farm nature reserve and a u-turn on parking restrictions around St Mary's Perivale
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Jon Ball @libdemjon.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
In response to Lib Dem Cllr Jonathan Oxley's urgent question, the Labour portfolio holder has u-turned and cancelled the plan to cease referals to the much-loved Log Cabin's after school club in Northfield Avenue, which would have threatened its viability.
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Arya Sundaram @aryasundaram.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
NJ lawmakers introduce the FUCK ICE Act. The bill "permits civil action for violations of US Constitution related to immigration enforcement."
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Jon Ball @libdemjon.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Delivering liberal democracy to North Korea one leaflet at a time...!
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Jon Ball @libdemjon.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I agree with Wes Streeting about something... he's toast at the next general election. apple.news/AKu6d3sFuQvO...
apple.news
Streeting shares his Mandelson texts with Sky News — Sky News
The messages reveal the health secretary thinks he is
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The reason why the Labour party wants a new leader is that the polls and local elections both put them on the brink of death, the policy agenda is a mess of warmed-over Milibandism pared with hypocritical social conservativism and no obvious route to the upside.
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Jon Ball @libdemjon.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
We had a great reception this weekend canvassing in Ealing Common ward. Most people we spoke to said they're definitely or probably voting in May for the local Lib Dem team: @conniehersch.bsky.social, Lakhbir Singh and I. Many people are increasingly dissapointed with Labour nationally and locally.
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Jon Ball @libdemjon.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Reported something unseasonal in Ealing Common ward - Christmas trees in February that need clearing!
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 01/02/2026
“Four days before Donald Trump’s inauguration last year, lieutenants to an Abu Dhabi royal secretly signed a deal with the Trump family to purchase a 49% stake in their fledgling cryptocurrency venture for half a billion dollars”
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Rob Blackie @robblackie.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
In September Kemi Badenoch promised a British ICE. Does she still stand by that? "Our new Removals Force, modelled on US ICE, will deport 150,000 illegal immigrants each year" www.facebook.com/reel/1209654...
Kemi Badenoch promising a British ICE in an official Conservative party video
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Jon Ball @libdemjon.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
My Lib Dem ward colleague @conniehersch.bsky.social handed in a petition calling for an independent inquiry into the Lammas Park SUDS fiasco and asked for order to be brought to the chaos of e-bikes blocking pavements.
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Jon Ball @libdemjon.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
I quizzed the Labour portfolio holder re how much it cost council taxpayers to construct & then demolish the flats overlooking Dean Gardens when Henry Construction went bust (he refused to answer) and why Ealing didn't react quickly like Lib Dem Sutton did when one of their developer partners folded
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Jon Ball @libdemjon.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
At Ealing's full council meeting I slammed the Labour administration for their delay implementing a levy on developers (community infrastructure levy) for 15 years, letting the developers off approximately £90m that the council could have used to improve services. @ealinglibdems.bsky.social
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Jon Ball @libdemjon.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
This is an obvious sign of Trump's mental decline. There's no reason to make up the White House doctor hiking with the Obama daughters almost dying due to a viper bite in the Peruvian jungle. Confabulation is the term for the creation of false memories in dementia patients. youtu.be/KLhVAWzOP5c?...
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President Trump Delivers Remarks at a Christmas Reception
YouTube video by The White House
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Jon Ball @libdemjon.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Asking questions about local government funding reform and how it is likely to affect Ealing.
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Jon Ball @libdemjon.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Traditional haircut picture - this time trim was ahead of new passport photo so that the mini-me in my passport doesn't look scruffy for a decade. ps Lib Dems - don't forget to vote for me first preference for Federal Conference Committee in the internal elections! Thank you.
Me, with shorter hair and some passport photos outside Big Jim's Trims.
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Jon Ball @libdemjon.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Fellow Lib Dems - ballots open today in the federal committee elections. Please give me your first preference for Federal Conference Committee so I can continue to stand up for radical policy debate at Conference and a better experience for members attending online.
Jon posing on the Lib Dem Conference stage with Cllr Athena Zissimos and Cllr Connie Hersch.
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Jon Ball @libdemjon.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Cllr Gary Busuttil and I spoke supporting the Renters’ Reform Bill especially the removal of no-fault evictions but pointing out that Labour-run Ealing council is a lousy landlord with a poor record on housing repairs and safety. All we heard from the Tories was special pleading for landlords.
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Jon Ball @libdemjon.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Lib Dems Andrew Steed and @conniehersch.bsky.social quizzed the portfolio holder about the noise and other nuisance from Gunnersbury Park events. The cabinet member claimed that there were no breaches of noise levels but will check if Ealing officers can attend the review meeting.
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Jon Ball @libdemjon.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
@ealinglibdems.bsky.social leader @cllrgarymalcolm.bsky.social asked a question about whether Ealing Council would allow EV charging gullies. The Labour answer was no on the basis that lamppost charging is cheaper which seems utterly incorrect in the long term as the electricity prices are so high
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Jon Ball @libdemjon.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
A good day canvassing on the Trees Estate in South Ealing earlier. Lots of positive support for @ealinglibdems.bsky.social but concerns that Labour Ealing has failed to repair damp council homes.
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Jon Ball @libdemjon.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
We had a great morning canvassing in Ealing Common. A huge thank you to Lib Dem vice-presidential candidate @kamhussain.bsky.social who came all the way from Leeds to take part! My colleagues Lakhbir Singh and @cllrgarymalcolm.bsky.social had shorter journeys.
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Jon Ball @libdemjon.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
At last. A symbolic but important step.
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Ian Sollom MP 🔶 @iansollom.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Since the UK Supreme Court’s ruling, I have received many messages from constituents who are concerned about the rights of trans people. I too am concerned by reports of rising discrimination as well as confusion over the ruling’s interaction with the Gender Recognition Act.
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Jon Ball @libdemjon.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Congratulations to Ealing’s Chloe Kelly on scoring the winning penalty to win the Euros for England!
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Jon Ball @libdemjon.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
At Ealing’s planning committee, the application for flats up to 22-storeys on the locally listed Southall Community Centre site was DEFERRED in order for officers to negotiate an affordable percentage higher than the derisory 19% offered by the developers.
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