The political aim from Sarah Teather will be to pass on as much of the blame as possible to local Councils. Governments get politically slaughtered for making cuts to Departments such as Health where local authorities have less control. In Brent we have been asked to make £94 million cuts to our budget. Our total [...]
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It’s cool to care about the environment
A video compiled by young people on recycling. Labour Councillor James Powney features. LINK Source BTWSC
Willesden Area Consultative Forum tonight!
Tonight I will be chairing the Willesden Area Forum at the College of North West London (Willesden Campus). Join us from 7.30pm tonight where we will be discussing Brent’s Household Waste Strategy, proposals for changes to an emissions based Parking Charges and the Crest Girls Academy. The Willesden Area Forum covers Dollis Hill, Dudden Hill, [...]
News of the Week: Six weblinks from the week just gone, recommended by me
Norman Tebbit of all people warns that people should write off new Labour leader Ed Miliband at their peril, describing him as ‘the man most likely to get Labour’s lost voters back to the polls’ Brent Citizen’s Advice Bureau on how Housing Benefit caps will affect Brent Lib Dems ConDemned on diversity by Operation Black [...]
Ed Miliband is the new leader of the Labour Party
After a long leadership contest, Ed Miliband was today elected leader of the Labour Party. It must have been difficult for all contenders and hats off to all who have proven that they are all assets to our party. I for one am glad it is over as it allows for the Leadership candidates and [...]
Ken Livingstone sweeps the Labour nomination for the 2012 London Mayoral elections
The City Hall campaign will in effect begin now. Former Brent East MP, Ken has overwhelmingly won the nomination to be Labour’s Mayoral candidate for the 2012 London elections, securing over double the tally of Oona King’s vote. A few weeks ago I blogged on why I’m supporting Ken (LINK). Ken will be an excellent [...]
Directly challenging the view that we’re in this financial mess because of Labour
Labour’s fiscal stimulus helped make sure that recession didn’t turn into depression and that stimulus meant that people did not lose savings in their bank accounts, or mortgages didn’t collapse along with the banks, which would’ve led to people losing their homes. Yes, Labour did borrow to help us recover from the crisis and that [...]
National Union of Teachers ConDemn Sarah Teather’s stance on ‘Free Schools’
Following the Lib Dems’ rebuttal of Sarah Teather’s Education policy yesterday (LINK), the National Union of Teachers has issued a comment on the ePolitix website saying: “This debate has shown up the conflict between Liberal Democrat and Tory values. The fault line in the coalition government will clearly be on education policies and the importance [...]
Sarah Teather’s Education proposals Con-Demned by her own Lib Dem Party members
The Liberal Democrats today gave their overwhelming backing to a campaign against the expansion of Sarah Teather’s Education policy on school academies and have called for a boycott of free schools in the strongest public show of concern by rank and file activists over the party’s role in Coalition Government. They called on all Lib [...]
