Share 5 views You mustn’t vote Tory because… “Mr Osborne, I really don’t know which economists are advising you on this brilliant strategy to increase unemployment, but feel free to give me a call. Unemployment makes voters unhappy.” Professor David Blanchflower, former member of the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee The Tories are simply rehashing Labour policies without the investment needed to...
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Keep The Post Public – Stop Royal Mail PrivatisationShare 6 views Royal Mail provides a vital public service to our communities, rural and urban alike. The Liberal Conservative Government intends to bring forward legislation to privatise and break up Royal Mail. We are convinc...
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Thank you for voting LabourShare 5 views To every one that voted for me, I would like to offer my thanks and assure you that I and the Labour Party in Lewes will continue to campaign on the areas that matter and we can always be contacted to fight shoulder to shoulder with you on your concerns. Please ...
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Next Lewes Branch Meeting – All members and supporters welcomeShare 10 views Next Branch Meeting 7.30pm 28th July 2010 at 3 North street, Lewes. Please come along. All supporters and members are welcome AKPC_IDS += "572,";Popularity: 4%
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Lewes Town Council – Byelection Bridge Ward – ResultShare 70 views As a Party attempting to revive rebuild and reorganise as a campaigning and well organised electoral Party locally, this election could be said to have come to soon for us. In the end despite running the foundations of a good campaign we came 4th of 4 and have ...
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Protect our land from bad development – Labour wants Village green status for Malling RecShare 9 views Isn't it time we were proactive about protecting Land from Development. One of the ways to do this is to seek Village Green status for open spaces. One of the Largest open spaces in Lewes is Malling Brooks and the Old Uckfield line railway cut, commonly call...
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Jonathan Spencer says: Make the differenceShare 265 views Jonathan Spencer is 49, and now lives in the centre of town having been a long time Cliffe resident living in both Morris Road and South Street. He is married and has three children aged 16, 14 and 3. Jonathan works locally helping run the family business tha...
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The cuts are coming – what do 25% cuts really meanShare 3 views We have been persuaded that it is inevitable, that perhaps we are to blame, that we must pay. The Tory ideology is based on servicing the countries debts 80% from public services and 20% taxes an ignorant distortion of the Pareto principle. So we will get from 1...
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The LDC Lewes Development Plan – Lib-Dem madness vs. A different kind of Labour PartyShare 15 views The district Council have been asking for your ideas and input on the development of the area. What our campaigner Jonathan Spencer finds interesting is the way this kind of thing is advertised and promoted. Unless you are politically active or part of the ...
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Malling Street, Lewes – Labour’s calling for speed restrictionsShare 36 views Talking to residents of Malling Street, looks like many of them have never seen a councillor , never mind actually get any of them to support them. As our campaigner Jonathan Spencer and his colleagues talked to people on the doorsteps canvassing for vote...
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Your Postal Vote – for Lewes Bridge by electionShare 29 views The ex-Labour, ex Independent, now LiberalDem/Tory Mr Stockdale has been busy with his first class post mailing hundreds of Labour Voters with his reminder that using your postal vote is important. It would seem this has galvanised support but not always for hi...
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Share 5 views You can airbrush your posters, David, but you can’t airbrush your policies. In the last leadership debate, Gordon Brown spoke for all of us when he demanded to know what the Tories will do to safeguard the economic recovery and protect jobs. No surprise – Cameron refused to offer any guarantees. Over the last two years, the Tories have used every trick in the PR handbook in order to duck the difficult questions. As t...
Share 42 views Maybe you have heard about or seen the new VOTE HRATCHE posters, this is one of set of four that we have developed….and where you wonder can you get one please email by clicking this link votehratche and send your name and address and someone will get round to you with a poster faster than you can say The Third Man. Or perhaps you’ll drop in at Labour Party HQ at 3 North Street, Lewes, and collect one yourself. W...
Share 11 views Lewes Labour Party candidate Hratche Koundarjian supports The Robin Hood Tax: “Considering that taxpayers’ money has kept these banks afloat, it is only fair that now the economy is improving they give something back to help the poorest both in the UK and abroad — as well as paying the taxpayer back.” Public figures have been quick to back the call. Max Lawson, head of financial development at Oxfam, said it could be ...
Share 8 views Governing is difficult, and we know that over the last 13 years Labour hasn’t always lived up to all our expectations. They haven’t given us everything we’ve asked for. But, when it comes down to it, Labour has changed Britain for the better. So what about the Tories? Make no mistake, we know what they stand for: greed. Big cuts to public spending, soaring unemployment, scrapping rules that give mums and dads ...
Share 5 views ICM/Guardian Poll A shock Poll in the guardian puts Labour much Closer to the Tories than any one could have suggested previously. Labour still have strong support and are suggesting a radical manifesto for a new Parliament. The draft manifesto, due to be put to a joint cabinet and national executive meeting on Wednesday evening, offers two dominant themes, of renewing the economy and establishing clearer citizens’ righ...
Share 4 views Labours Pledge Card When we think about what we now take for granted as part of our social fabric, many have been things introduced by Labour over the last 13 years. a doubling of the investment in the NHS, which has resulted in things like the halving of deaths from heart attack. FREE access to galleries and museums, remember it was the Tories that made us pay. The removal of discrimination like clause 28. Free bus trav...
Share 6 views Times are hard, yes cuts, savings and economies will have to be made. We must reduce the defecit. No business has ever liked National Insurance, mainly because when you have it taken from your wages they have to be extra too. However taxes will and must rise as a way of paying off our debts. National Insurance is the fairest way of all, its a tax that does not penalise the less well off and it was designed to help fund o...
Share 3 views George Osborne - "Out of his depth" George Osborne, the Tory “shallow” chancellor’s, announcement on national Insurance today and his performance in the chancellors’ debate show a panicked man, making up policy on the hoof. when it comes to our economy he’s completely out of his depth. The Tories: Putting the recovery at risk ✘ George Osborne’s proposals on National Insurance Contributions would derail th...
Share 55 views In his latest leaflet through our doors our MP tells us he’s gaining votes from Labour. What proof does he offer? NONE what evidence? NONE. In fact a recent article in the Guardian pointed out the myth of Labour Voters going over to the Liberals, especially since the Lib Dems have moved even further to the right. Nick Clegg quite openly saying he admired Mrs Thatcher and said his party would be more ruthless about cut...
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