Share 22 views Its a difficult time for politicians and especially for Labour as the party in government. The Local elections did not bring the results we would have liked, although we held on to 4 of our 5 seats in Hastings. So we would like to thank all those who held faith with us and voted Labour on June 4th We would also like to thank all those members and supporters who helped by putting up posters, campaigning and doing work behind t...
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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 185 views Steve Watts Steve has lived in Lewes for more than 20 years. His son attended Wallands and Priory Schools. Steve was educated at Ruskin College, Oxford, and Sussex University. He presently works for a Lewes Business He has been involved in many volunteer organisations around the town, including the Neville Residents’ Association, The Rooks Supporters’ Trust and is currently chairman of the Southover Bonfire Society. St...
Share 68 views louis blair Louis Blair lives in Lewes with his family and has two young children. His career has included 15 years working in local government housing and he currently works setting up housing co-ops and helping community groups with regeneration projects. Louis has a real belief in local government with interests including social housing, community and leisure facilities, youth services and recycling. In his spare time hi...
Share 29 views I know that people are angry about MPs’ expenses. And it will effect many peoples choice: the choice between a Labour plan to grow Britain out of recession with help for families and businesses – or the Tory route – help the wealthiest few and cuts to public services. So Labour wants to say sorry. Every day dominated by newspaper stories about expenses is a day lost to talking about the work Labour are doing...
Share 29 views Today is the 10th anniversary of the introduction of the National Minimum Wage. Thanks to a Labour government – and in the teeth of Conservative opposition – the National Minimum Wage first started paying into people’s pockets in April 1999. Since then it has made a huge difference in making work pay and helping thousands of families out of poverty in Britain. It remains one of our proudest achievements. Today is also t...
Share 109 views No discussion, no investigation, no research on the economic effect….what are we talking about? The Conservative controlled East Sussex County Council that wants to move County Hall from the historic county town to a roundabout in Polegate. Its a slash and burn policy. Oh yes I know the design and placement of County Hall is a bit of an eyesore, but its a boost to the local economy, for jobs, and prosperity. Labour ...
Share 141 views By their own admission, Lewes Lib Dems have miserably failed to build enough social housing to meet either Central Government or their own targets. The Governments target is that 25% of all homes built in the area should be for social rent, but Lewes DC have delivered just over 8% for either social renting or shared ownership. Labour Campaigner Steve Watts says with development schemes in the pipeline all over the town an...
Share 79 views Despite what you may have read, Lewes is not twinned with Iceland. Mums may shop there, but all the financial advice, for some time, has been don’t invest there. Our neighbours Brighton Council heeded this advice over a year ago. Lewes Liberals ignored it. The Liberal Democrats in Lewes District Council have lost a million pounds of your money and if by any chance we get it back it will be down to our Labour government. ...
Share 35 views So The Lib Dems are claiming that free swimming is down to them, oh those Loonie Liberal democrats, It was the Labour party that insitgated this policy which is funded by central government to 2012br /br /The rubbish the invisible District Council Spout. We have do nothing Lib Dems and an opposiition that opposes nothing. Isn’t it time we had some common sense Labour Party Councillors who weren’t afraid to ask the...
Share 6 views div style=”display: inline;font:15px HelveticaNeue; “How the political scene across Lewes District is changing. nbsp;Back in October of last year in the Lewes Labour Blog we commented as we have done so many times in the past: what are Norman Baker and the Liberals doing for Lewes, now we find that like most of our good ideas the Torys like to claim them as their own, they are asking the same question.br /br /As Lord...
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