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Photo of Cllr Farhaan Rehman's bright blue Lamborghini parked in a disabled bay without a Blue Badge

ChiswickW4 blog: Christmas cheer brings an early gift that keeps on giving - because of failings in the Hounslow Labour Party

30th November 2025

Councillor Joanna Biddolph's blog for chiswickw4.com looks at recent embarrassing and inappropriate behaviour by Labour councillors during this week's borough...

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Photo of a bike hangar on a road. It is grey with a simple drawing of a bike on the ends.

Chiswick Herald blog: Cllr Joanna Biddolph reflects on people power, including by consultation, in the run-up to the local elections

6th November 2025

As the date of the next local election approaches – it’s Thursday, 7th May 2026 – councillors, candidates and local political party activists are canvassing...

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Photo of a grit bin full of random bits of rubbish including plastic bottles, coffee cups, food wrapping

ChiswickW4 blog: Cllr Joanna Biddolph on holding housing associations to account, Lime bike chaos, waste, weeds, policing and Christmas

25th October 2025

With a housing association case that has been on my desk since I was first elected in 2018, I was reassured but unhappy, when exchanging WhatsApp messages with...

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Cllr Joanna Biddolph holding up and shaking the box of injections, prescribed unnecessarily, emphasising the point that waste in the NHS must be reduced

Chiswick Herald blog: Making the NHS the envy of the world: Cllr Joanna Biddolph reflects on ways the NHS could be improved locally, particularly looking at waste

17th September 2025

Another week. Another bad news story about the NHS. This time it was the revelation, in a report by the Policy Exchange think tank, of just how much money goes...

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Photo of a batch of Lime bikes, in their bright green livery, dumped on Gunnersbury Lane as they are no longer allowed in Hounslow

ChiswickW4 blog: Cllr Joanna Biddolph on democracy in Hounslow, justice for tenants of HMOs, Chiswick post office, planning decisions and e-bikes

24th August 2025

Political parachutes prove that democracy is dead in Hounslow There was much talk about the way Labour selected its councillor candidate for the Cranford by...

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Photo of a pothole that is not deep enough to be filled, frustratingly

ChiswickW4 Blog: Cllr Joanna Biddolph on Gunnersbury Park festivals, public defecation by lorry drivers, potholes and Chiswick post office

The festival season gets off to a bad start with lessons unlearned, says Cllr Joanna Biddolph. Festivals in Gunnersbury Park have too often been used to divide...

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Photo of Cllrs Joanna Biddolph and Peter Thompson outside the closed post office, both holding parcels, letters and bills that need to be paid.

Chiswick Herald blog: Cllr Joanna Biddolph continues her campaign for residents' and businesses' view to be heard

Cllr Joanna Biddolph's blog highlights two recent issues that she says have sidelined residents and businesses: the closure, without warning, of Chiswick Post...

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Photo of Cllr Joanna Biddolph and Conservative group leader Cllr Peter Thompson outside Chiswick's closed post office, holding letters, a parcel and bills to be paid. Neither of them is smiling as the closure has infuriated Chiswick residents and business workers.

ChiswickW4 blog: From the post office to posting plastics - a humdinger of a week, reports Cllr Joanna Biddolph

It’s been a humdinger of a week, starting at the post office and ending with posting plastics. Actually, it didn’t start at the post office. First came the...

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Photo of a horrible mess of Lime Bikes dumped and blocking pavement at a corner junction, some bikes have toppled over; it is chaos.

Chiswick Herald blog: Cllr Joanna Biddolph compares Hounslow council with Lord of the Flies

18th April 2025

It’s funny how things unexpectedly fall into place. I’ve been trying to work out why life as a determined Conservative councillor in Labour Hounslow can be so...

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