This is no real plan for growth - Denham
Updated: 2010-10-31 16:12:02
Shadow Business Secretary John Denham MP responding to David Cameron’ speech at the CBI conference today, said:
Labour's campaign stepped up against cuts to housing benefit
Updated: 2010-10-31 16:12:02Following Ed Miliband's challenge to David Cameron at PMQs – Labour is stepping up its campaign against cutting housing benefit for people out of work for 12 months.Reports of a 50% drop in planning approvals for wind farms
Updated: 2010-10-31 16:12:02Responding to reports of a 50 per cent drop in planning approvals for wind farms in England, Meg Hillier, Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change said:Healey: Government backtracking on its NHS promises
Updated: 2010-10-31 16:12:02Reports across the weekend press have revealed the extent to which the Government is backtracking on its promises to protect NHS funding, improve cancer care and cut waiting times.The Government is giving up on growth - Denham
Updated: 2010-10-31 16:12:02John Denham MP, Labour's Shadow Business Secretary, responding to the Government’ Local Growth White Paper, said:Labour joins cross-party group to oppose constitutional changes
Updated: 2010-10-31 16:12:02
Labour joins forces with DUP, Plaid Cymru and the SDLP to oppose rushed Parliamentary Voting Systems and Constituencies BillGovernment needs to produce the full detail of plans on pensions
Updated: 2010-10-31 16:12:02Douglas Alexander MP, Labour’ Shadow Work and Pensions Minister, commenting on the Government’ proposed changes to the state pension, said:Alan Johnson responds to the latest GDP figures
Updated: 2010-10-31 16:12:02Shadow Chancellor Alan Johnson MP responding to the latest GDP figures said:The World of Nick Venedi: Lambeth anit cuts march 30 October
Updated: 2010-10-31 14:29:38
Excellent pictures from the anti cuts march as presented in the local urban75 blog , which took place yesterday in Britxon. The campaign organisers meet every first and 3rd Thursday of each month....The Workers United: The Sun apologises to Bob Crow
Updated: 2010-10-31 13:48:00The Sun - Britain's most popular newspaper - has issued a fulsome apology to Bob Crow, the leader of the Rail, Maritime, and Transport union (RMT). The Sun said:"An article on 15 September reported...John's Labour blog: "The future of our schools" TUC conference Sat 27 Nov
Updated: 2010-10-31 13:13:00
The TUC are putting on this special conference on the future of schools and "debating the Government's reform agenda".
"What do government policies on schools mean for our children and communities?
What are the long-term implications of giving more schools greater autonomy - improved schooling...30 years of Amnesty trade union solidarity: World AIDS Day TUC seminar
Updated: 2010-10-31 13:08:21There are 33 million people with HIV/AIDS around the world, nine tenths of whom are of working age, and many more with caring responsibilities for family members with HIV/AIDS. So AIDS is a workplace issue and a union issue. This year, the International Labour Organisation adopted a Recommendation on HIV/AIDS at the workplace, and the TUC is devoting its annual World AIDS Day seminar to the issueStronger Unions: World AIDS Day – TUC seminar
Updated: 2010-10-31 12:57:26
The TUC is, as usual, marking World AIDS Day on 1 December with a seminar, and this year it’s especially relevant to union organisers. This year the ILO adopted a recommendation on HIV/AIDS at...Unison Active: Workers rights under attack by Con Dem's hell bent on deregulation
Updated: 2010-10-31 09:54:00The Sunday Mirror reports on leaked Government plans to extend the qualifying period for protection from unfair dismissal to two years....Unison Active: A grain of rice by F R Scott
Updated: 2010-10-31 09:32:00Such majestic rhythms, such tiny disturbances. The rain of the monsoon falls, an inescapable treasure, Hundreds of millions live Only because of the certainty of this...Labour Conference 2010: Friends of India reception
Updated: 2010-10-31 00:19:00
On the Tuesday evening of the Labour Party conference I was invited to attend the Labour Friends of India reception.
This is a picture of Newham delegates and visitors (I'm hiding in the back row between flags) with the India High Commissioner, his Excellency, Mr Nalin Surie, shaking hands...London UNISON 1st Health Brigade's: Lean Green Recruiting Machine
Updated: 2010-10-30 22:44:00
Picture is of some of UNISON's finest out recruiting new Student nurse members t Kingston University.
Gracie, Debbie, Micky and Chong recruited over 200 NISON members at this one event.
They are well on their way o forming nd Health Brigade in Greater...John's Autumn Watch
Updated: 2010-10-30 19:57:00
Off message but last weekend I went for a marvellous utumnal walk in the Chilterns. It is apparently a particularly "bountiful" season this year with lots of fruit and berries. Thanks to the cold winter last year which killed off fungi and pests with a warm but showery...Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson risks all to defend London Poor
Updated: 2010-10-29 23:36:00
"STATEMENT issued by the office of Boris Johnson, Mayor of London:
Comments I made in an interview this morning to BBC London radio have been entirely taken out of context. When I said that I would rather share a cell with Slobodan Milosovic than be in the same room as David Cameron, I meant, of...Spelling it out: Lib Dems and the Cuts
Updated: 2010-10-29 22:57:00
Great win for Labour in Camden Kentish Town by-election.
This is the leaflet that I understand upset a few sensitive souls?
:)
hat-tip thingy Country StandardFTSE 100 Bosses gave themselves a 55 per cent rise last year
Updated: 2010-10-29 22:22:00
"Short of throwing a champagne celebration for themselves outside a Merthyr Tydfil jobcentre, FTSE 100 bosses could not have shown less tact." Hat tip he FT.com!!!!
This news that directors of the top 100 companies in the UK gave themselves (forget the utter fiction that this is...East London Labour Party Quiz Night: Thursday 18 November 8pm Start
Updated: 2010-10-29 21:47:00
"Short of throwing a champagne celebration for themselves outside a Merthyr Tydfil jobcentre, FTSE 100 bosses could not have shown less tact." Hat tip he FT.com!!!!
This news that directors of the top 100 companies in the UK gave themselves (forget the utter fiction that this is...Will you stand up for Education?
Updated: 2010-10-29 21:21:00
Fund our Future: National March & Rally 10 November 2010.How do you fit in six bins?
Updated: 2010-10-29 17:06:48six types of recycling Originally uploaded by absentmindedprof East Renfrewshire have now decided that we need to put food waste into a separate bin. This means that we need to fit six bins into our kitchen: Compostable waste (fruit, veg and egg shells) Other food waste Metal and glass Paper and cardboard Hard plastic Everything [...]Real Horror Movie
Updated: 2010-10-29 14:29:45A new horror movie based on real life events has just been released! Continue reading →Champagne Charlies
Updated: 2010-10-28 23:30:00
For no particular reason whatsoever I thought I would republish inks to ome of my favourite posts on this blog.
My speech at Labour Party conference in 2009 about the millionaire Champagne Charlies - Cameron and Osborne
This one about the "curse of grayee" following the Daily Mirror...‘Air’ is Applish for ‘netbook’
Updated: 2010-10-28 15:38:43What should one call a computer with the following specs? 11-inch monitor 64GB flash storage 2GB memory weight: 1.06 kg I’m pretty sure that most people would call this a netbook, but Apple don’t like netbooks, so they call it the MacBook Air. I can only conclude that Air is Apple-speak for ‘netbook’. Of course, [...]Greens set for Significant Gains at Victorian Election
Updated: 2010-10-28 02:27:48According to the Newspoll published in this morning's Australian, the Greens are set for a dramatic increase in support at the Victorian election on 27 November. (Click this link to visit the ABC's Victorian election site.) The poll shows the...Anthem against the Cuts
Updated: 2010-10-27 23:16:00Hat tip UNISON East MidlandsCUTS WON'T WORK T-SHIRT JUST £9.99
Updated: 2010-10-27 19:56:00
Get your "The Cuts Won't Work" tee shirts here.
From the site "The cuts won't work, they'll just make things worse."
"...This sums up precisely the case against the rolling back of the state which is now being executed in an ideological crusade on a Thatcherite scale.
The website...National Health & Safety Inspection Day: Safety First!
Updated: 2010-10-27 08:58:00
Today is National Inspection Day! Check out this UNISON link for resources and check out your orkplace. Son of Manse "exposed" as "Martyr of the Revolution"
Updated: 2010-10-26 17:53:00
I thought that I would cheer everybody up with this photo. An old friend is currently working in China and a couple of months ago he went for a walk in the local 'Martyrs of the Revolution Park'.
He swears his photo is real and this is what he saw.
Remind you of anyone?
(hint: "Red...Victorian Election Candidates - tell me about them
Updated: 2010-10-26 11:33:40Nominations for the 2010 Victorian Election will open next Wednesday, 3 November. So far I have several hundred candidates for the election listed at http://www.abc.net.au/elections/vic/2010/. There's an alphabetic list of candidates at http://www.abc.net.au/elections/vic/2010/guide/candidateindex.htm. You can link to individual electorates from...Amaias specielle kravleteknik
Updated: 2010-10-25 23:58:13Amaia har udviklet sin helt egen måde at kravle på: Man kan vel sige, at hun har lært at sætte det lange ben foran! Share and enjoy! Hide Sites $$('div.d2857').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });Tower Hamlets: A bit of a flashback
Updated: 2010-10-25 23:19:00Tower Hamlets Councillor Rachel Saunders gives her personal take on what has gone wrong with the local Mayoral election. Hat tip Labour Link (and nmesh Desai!)
"Thursday night, the night Labour lost Tower Hamlets, felt like a bit of a flashback. The venue was different, York Hall.../ən/
Updated: 2010-10-25 15:57:51indefinite article Originally uploaded by ilovetypography.com Jeg er for tiden ved at lære Léon at læse dansk, og selvom han kæmper lidt med forskellen mellem dansk og engelsk, er han da ved at komme efter det. Det sværeste er næsten de forskellige bogstavnavne – på engelsk siger man i første klasse /bə/, /kə/, /də/ o.s.v. [...]Victorian election Calculator now live
Updated: 2010-10-25 13:06:54My ABC Election Calculator for the Victorian election is now live by following this link. It works as normal, allowing you to enter a state-wide swing between Labor and the Coalition. But we've modified it to include a second slider...SERTUC Rally: organising to defeat public service cuts (and splitters and wreckers)
Updated: 2010-10-24 23:59:00
Yesterday there was a successful and vibrant Labour movement rally at Congress House about grown up trade unionists organising with others to defend public services.
There were a few problems which I will return to later. This official trade union rally of affiliated trade unions and trade...Tories telling porkies?
Updated: 2010-10-24 10:35:00Well, someone's telling porkies? If the cuts are really necessary just to balance he books and not ideological then why don't the ConDems promise to reverse at least some of the cuts when (if) he "good times return"?
Question to Tory blogger Iain Dale on Stephen Nolan Radio show (22...SERTUC Council meeting
Updated: 2010-10-23 23:37:00
This morning I went ff to the outhern and Eastern Region TUC Council (SERTUC) meeting at Congress House. Firstly there was a UNISON pre-meeting for delegates. Then up to the 5th floor for Council. Normally we are in the basement conference area but this was being..."We want a school fit for the 21st Century.."
Updated: 2010-10-22 18:30:00This great YouTube video has been produced by pupils (past and present) staff nd teachers at Little Ilford chool in Newham about the ancellation of a planned new School building (BSF) by the ConDems.
Hat-tip former MEP Anita Pollack whose daughter went to the school.The attainment gap between rich and poor children doubled under Labour
Updated: 2010-10-22 09:47:37
: SEARCH Blog Journalism Books Film Radio Toby's School Friday 22nd October 2010 The attainment gap between rich and poor children doubled under Labour There's a laughable headline in the Guardian this morning : State school pupils do better at GCSE . Technically , that's true . According to the latest tranche of examination statistics released by the Department for Education , 53.1 of GCSE candidates in state schools in 2010 managed to get five or more at grade C or above , including Maths and English , compared to only 47.2 at independent school . However , the reason for that is because fewer independent schools entered children for GCSEs in 2010 than ever before largely because they've become so dumbed down as to be virtually worthless . If you factor in IGCSEs which are closer toOh dear, what a shame, never mind, onwards and forwards
Updated: 2010-10-22 08:22:00
Check out the result of yesterday's election for Tower Hamlets Mayor here.
We live in interesting times in East London.“Knocking up” the Labour vote in Isle of Dogs
Updated: 2010-10-22 00:37:00
Back (via Spinnakers pub) from “knocking up” the Labour vote in Tower Hamlets (see main picture) for the Executive Mayor contest. I was part of a Newham team led by the super fast walker, Councillor Unmesh Desai, together with “Fitz” from Canning town and long standing Councillor (and TSSA Union..."because we are tories - and that's what we do..."
Updated: 2010-10-20 23:42:00Well, no great surprises today. It's not that we were not warned I suppose.
"It's the same the whole world over, It's the poor wot gets the blame; It's the rich wot gets the pleasure, Ain't it all a blooming shame".
Check out UNISON's view on this attempt to strangle the recovery and the...Treasury tables challenge notion of a ‘progressive’ spending review
Updated: 2010-10-20 15:08:45The Conservatives have pushed aggressively the notion that 'we're all in this together', but, as public service cuts bite and jobs are lost, fewer and fewer people may be convinced.
Centenary of the First NSW Labor Government
Updated: 2010-10-20 12:24:57Thursday 21 October 2010 celebrates 100 years since the formation of the first New South Wales Labor government. On a cool and showery Friday 21 October 1910, veteran Labor Leader James McGowen and his caucus colleagues met to elect a...Osborne Apologies
Updated: 2010-10-20 08:26:00
Fat Chance.
I don't think it will be much use trying to ring the Number 11 Emergency number either.
(Forest Gate Railway station hat tip Ali G)"despicable politics funded by scumbag millionaires"
Updated: 2010-10-19 23:03:00Just when you thought that Tower Hamlets politics could not any worse! Check out Ted's post here about the completely vile and rotten scumbags who have tried to misuse bused women to further their campaign of hatred against Labour candidate, Helal Abbas.
Someone in the know said to me...2010 Victorian Election Website
Updated: 2010-10-19 05:55:50I have now published my guide to the 2010 Victorian election at http://www.abc.net.au/elections/vic/2010/. At this stage the site contains details of the contest for government in the Legislative Assembly. Details of the Legislative Council election will be added over the...UK Comprehensive Spending Review Poll
Updated: 2010-10-19 01:08:45October 20th 2010 coalition government comprehensive spending review, good fiscal management or ideological led Tory changes to government spending? With government spending cuts expected to be as high as 40% in some government departments over the course of this parliament, are we looking at the Conservatives taking advantage of economic strife by pushing for ideological [...]APPG TB October newsletter available
Updated: 2010-10-18 19:03:29The All Party Parliamentary Group on Global Tuberculosis, for which RESULTS provides the Secretariat, have just published their October newsletter, which is now available to download from the APPG’s website. Continue reading →Annette Brooke MP wins ‘MP of the year’
Updated: 2010-10-15 14:29:31
Annette Brooke, MP for Mid Dorset and North Poole, has won MP of the Year in the Dods and Scottish Widows Women in Public Life Awards. Annette is a long-term supporter of RESULTS UK, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Microfinance, for which we provide the Secretariat, and MP for several members of our Poole group. Continue reading →