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TweetThis week the campaigning focus is all about the Bedroom Tax. I have asked various non-political friends what they think about the idea of moving households with what appears to be too many rooms out of their council or housing association properties and into smaller ones and they generally think at first glance, “good idea”. [...]
TweetIt’s Living Wage week next week with events across the country. This is a campaign which everyone should be involved in. Why does it matter? Because contrary to some of the myths put about by the Tory-led Coalition and their friends, paying people decent wages actually is good for business and the economy – low [...]
TweetThe last Labour government showed us what is possible for child care and we can and must go even further. Here are my seven top reasons for a campaign for more high quality, affordable and accessible childcare in Bristol: Providing childcare has a greater effect on family income than providing money. It has benefits for children’s [...]
TweetThanks to encouragement and help from Labour members, activists and councillors, I have been working on various proposals for Labour Bristol under the Fairness Agenda over the last few months. Fairness Commission: this won’t be a talking shop, it will be up and doing, with non-politicians coming together to work with Labour Bristol on how [...]
Tweet8th March has been International Women’s Day since the early 1970s. Some people have argued – the same ones get wheeled out year after year to do this – that there is no need for IWD any more, that women are doing fine on the equality scale, the battles have all been won and we [...]
TweetLeft Foot Forward blog says not. Well, they would say that wouldn’t they….except it’s not just them. Leaders of big business themselves are saying that high pay and large ratios between lowest and highest wages in a company are not acceptable and even that they don’t make good business sense. Even the former boss of Greggs [...]
TweetAt Bristol West Labour Party website we are keeping a Coalition Watch – monitoring and reporting on the Tory-led Coalition and the impact of their policies on people in Bristol West and beyond. This includes monitoring how our LibDem MP is doing on sticking to his promises…answers in the blog, with more to come. There has [...]
TweetI am sitting at the Labour Bristol stall at the Bristol Diversity Careers Fayre right now in the @Bristol conference centre in town. This is an interesting place to be – the stalls are a mixture of careers advice, recruitment, retail, training and some special interest like ours. From where I sit I can see [...]
TweetOur new neighbours – the Middle East and North Africa Two highlights of the week were about the EU’s role in the world. A lunch time reception chaired by the wonderful Mehdi Hassan for the Labour Friends of Palestine and Middle East was followed the next morning by a breakfast hosted by the European Parliamentary Labour [...]
TweetIt’s no good the Tory led government getting all up in arms about the so-called sexualisation of children – action is what is needed, not hand wringing. And the last Labour government has given us the tools to get on with the job. Sexualisation of children is happening right here in the centre of Bristol, [...]
