Polly Toynbee of the Guardian rips into Nick Clegg saying that his messages to his party’s conference simply are not true. In particular she digs deep into Nick Clegg’s claim that Gordon Brown made up statistics and suited those that he could use to show that he was successful in combating child poverty. However, these [...]
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News of the Week: Ten weblinks from the week just gone, recommended by me.
In no particular order: A Vodafone tax bill worth £6 billion is waived by the Government, while George Osborn hints that an additional £4 billion can be saved from the welfare bill (This is Money LINK) Royal College of General Practitioners want to delay Con Dem NHS plans on GP Commissioning, hinting that they’re simply [...]
Future Jobs Fund Cuts is a false economy
Fellow young people are telling me all the time that it’s hard for them to enter the labour market. Many have worked so hard to gain qualifications but are then denied the opportunity to practise what they have spent years training for. The Future Jobs Fund, introduced by the last Government encouraged firms to give [...]
Neasden Shopping Centre represents years of Lib Dem neglect
I spent the morning out with the Police, local residents and Council officers walking around the Neasden Shopping Centre. What we found was problems and clear signs of neglect with issues that have been left unresolved for years. The lack of attention paid to the area by Lib Dem Councillors has led to it being [...]
Hidden Grant Cuts
When Yvette Cooper said that women would bear the brunt of the cuts, I disagreed and still do. I think that the real losers are children and young people who have been quite frankly targeted by this Coalition Government. The obvious cuts that reflect this is the Building Schools for the Future cut and the [...]
Testimonies Project: Get Involved
WikiImage Artist Lorenzo Belenguer is organising a community project in Brent and looking to involve local residents. Twenty local residents are invited to participate in the Testimonies project for the London 2012 Games led by the local artist, Lorenzo Belenguer. Interviews will be carried out with people who witnessed the 1948 Olympic Games and with [...]
Con Dem government signals shift from ‘Free Schools’ policy, back to BSF-esque programme.
Sarah Teather has in the Willesden and Brent Times pledged that schools will be able to reapply for a new school building with an announcement expected towards the end of the year. The announcement signals a logical realisation that the Labour Party’s Building Schools for the Future programme was the correct route to follow with [...]
“This is Typical Tory”
Normally blog posts are about the author’s views. But today I draw upon what a local Dudden Hill resident said to me this weekend. I was out talking to a local resident in Neasden on Saturday conversing about what the Government is doing with regards to public spending. “This is typical Tory”, he said, reverting [...]
Have just been reading Sarah Teather’s take on the Building Schools for the Future Programme in the Willesden and Brent Times….
Whoa whoa whoa… let me get this right… Sarah Teather blames the poor state of our school buildings in Brent on the Labour Party’s Building Schools for the Future Scheme? A scheme that would have provided better school buildings and rapidly expanded the amount of children that we could accommodate in our schools. Her logic [...]
News of the Week: Eleven weblinks from the week just gone, recommended by me
Four in 10 Lib Dem voters would not vote for party again. Con Dem Government welcome former banker Stephen Green to the Government. Tom Watson MP tweets Blimey. When Mr Osborne said he’d take on the bankers, I didn’t know it meant he’d make them ministers. Charity Shelter claim that almost 54,000 children already living [...]
