An Independent candidate standing in the upcoming local elections has stoked the fire by criticising Brent Labour’s regeneration and environmental policies.

Cllr John Duffy, who dramatically said he would quit the Labour Party in January this year is standing for re-election in the Kilburn ward.

Writing in his blog, Kilburn Calling, he said the current administration had “failed miserably” in key areas.

“For some reason environmental improvements are not a high priority and are never co-ordinated,” he wrote.

“Brent is second from bottom in west London on recycling [and] the Labour cabinet wasted the last four years failing to introduce any school environmental education programme.”

He also launched an attack on the council’s approach to regeneration, noting what he perceives as poor decisions in his ward and the borough as a whole.

“The Labour Party have used every piece of land in South Kilburn to build houses, many for the private sector, which are worth up to £1 million pound each,” he added.

“Local residents have given up green space, had to withstand thousands of lorries careering up and down their roads with the obvious air and noise pollution, while they got on with lives.”

Cllr Duffy announced that he intended to leave Labour at a full council meeting earlier this year, arguing that the group’s leadership had “let down the people of Kilburn many times”.

He was then deselected by the party for May’s local elections after his conduct was called into question.

A spokesperson for Brent Labour said: “Following multiple complaints, a formal investigation led to Cllr Duffy being found guilty of breaching numerous rules relating to professional and collegiate conduct.

“It was such a shame that John could not bring himself to abide by the standards required of an elected representative. In choosing to act as he did he let himself down badly.”