Happy New Year to all, friends and everyone who knows me.
2010 has been an interesting and exciting year with many unique events happening. I left Lambeth on the 30 March after being there for 22...
One of the strongest supporters of the Big Society has warned David Cameron that “expenditure cuts are a double whammy in communities like ours, increasing unemployment (the public sector is the biggest local employer) and closing services at the same time.” The warning comes in an open...
End of child trust fund will harm vulnerable children’s life chances, think tank cautions "Children and Young People Now" reports that IPPR has warned that the abolition of the child trust fund will be especially harmful for children in care. Maintaining the CTF for these children...
I've been having some further fun with the "blogger" Stat counter. amp;nbsp;In October I posted on "Giovanni's Lavoro blog" and puzzled over the large number of hits on this blog apparently from Italy.
During the last week or so s you can see (right screenprint) most of the...I have blown my top previously about the government’s plan to remove Disability Living Allowance mobility component from people in residential care homes. Over the last few weeks more and more organisations have been speaking out about how this cut will mean restricted lives for thousands of...
hat tip Isleworth Labour Party
11.53am local time on December 29, 2010 at Melbourne Cricket Ground. It's the moment England cricket fans have waited nearly a quarter of a century for. The Ashes are retained in Australia.
I'm not really sure what to make of the story in today's Independent about Ed Miliband supposedly severing "big money" ties with affiliated trade unions. It is all pretty unclear and confusing. nbsp;This is after all the winter silly season.
The idea of having a 4th estate of...
The CWU are organising a rally and demo in Witney, Oxfordshire on January 9th. Witney is the Constituency seat of Mr Cameron!
I would suspect that the privatisation of osties is a live political issue in such a predominantly rural and agricultural area. I'm pretty sure the Post...
From January 2011, Lousie Holly will rejoin RESULTS UK on the Board of Trustees. Continue reading →Another great country walk. The snow, ice and light was fantastic. Only 6.5 miles but absolutely gorgeous from beginning to end. 0 minutes away by car from Newham. It is even relatively hilly - for Essex. nly fell over spectacularly of course) once due to...
Some top arguments that we must never forget and never stop putting forward. "Investment in growth creates jobs; reducing benefits spending and increasing taxation income"
"The public sector deficit has been higher than today for most of our lives including in 1948 when we
built the...
Superb hristmas day walk around Epping Forest. nbsp;Started ff at the Warren Pond car park opposite the Queen Elizabeth Hunting Lodge (below left).
I once worked right next door to the Hunting Lodge in a telesales call centre "selling" water filters. I left as soon as...Political bloggers say goodbye from Political Scrapbook on Vimeo.
A Great video set to y favourite all time recording. Hat-tip Tim. I don't think that these new departures necessarily means anything. People come and go in all things. Same with political blogs.
Bow, East London.An excellent guide to films about trade unions - by the CWU. Go down to your local video store and watch something different this Christmas!
"Fed up with the usual Christmas films? How about watching a modern classic, comedy or blockbuster film with a trade union-angle? Over the years, trade...This Youtube video is now a Christmas tradition on this blog! Hat-tip Stoppyblog
Off message but I thought I will cheer folk up by posting his glorious old railway poster for Colwyn Bay n North Wales. nbsp;
Yesterday was the shortest day so despite the cold and the ice from now on it will get lighter and eventually warmer.
I use to live in Old Cowlyn and I...Off message but I thought I will cheer folk up by posting his glorious old railway poster for Colwyn Bay n North Wales. nbsp;
Yesterday was the shortest day so despite the cold and the ice from now on it will get lighter and eventually warmer.
I use to live in Old Cowlyn and I...
"On Tuesday there was yet another factory fire in Bangladesh, killing at least 28 workers and leaving many more injured. This factory made clothing for Gap, Abercrombie, JC Penney, Phillips-Van Heusen and other brands...
2011 marks the centennial of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, a...if (WIDGETBOX) WIDGETBOX.renderWidget('bfa4ce21-5d41-45cc-9626-15255878940a');
I voted for "Deprived areas: Local Authority Funding weighted unfairly. Just select your own "worse cut" and click on "submit". Hat tip TUC Touchstone
RESULTS is recruiting a new Grassroots Support Intern to start work in the New Year. Continue reading →
The legal saga and complete waste of ourt time and public funds continues. Please bear with me while I try to set the scene and explain - since it is just a tinny weeny it confusing.
In 2007 Tower Hamlet's own PD turned Labour Party turned Respect turned CPGB turned CPB turned...
This picture was posted live from the picket line via Facebook and the Blackberry of Graeme Horn.
Graeme is joint branch secretary of Birmingham UNISON Local Government branch.
The first message posted was around 7am "Good morning from the picket line at the Bham Fleet & Waste...
Off message. Winter walk started at Joseph Fry memorial in Forest Gate then through centre of Wanstead Flats nto Wanstead Park. Coffee and Cake at the Temple. Then down o River Roding and along to he City of London emetery path and back into the Flats,...Sound coaching "Returning south yesterday after completing on the sale of our house in Manchester, I arrived at Piccadilly station just in time for the train about to depart for Euston, and so got on the first carriage I saw with an empty seat. It was Virgin Trains' Coach N - the 'noisy coach'. I...
Carol is a single mum with three small children who works in the kitchen of the Executive dining room of a British FT100 listed company n East London. She earns £13,000 per year for an average 40 hour week (the national minimum wage of £5.93 per hour is £12,334). She prepares food and cleans...
Good news! Newham Council have agreed that housing services should be brought back under direct control of the council in order to save money and continue to deliver good housing services.
The council's Cabinet agreed on Thursday (December 16) that an agreement with the arms length management..."Following the Local Government Finance Settlement it's clear London has suffered a raw deal, with its councils facing average cuts of 11.25 per cent. The average for the rest of England is 9.93 per cent. So much for Conservative Mayor Boris Johnson's claim to have mounted a ‘Stalingrad like...
The result of Spitalifelds and Banglatown Ward by election 2010 is:-
Labour 553
Respect 666
Independent 28
Lib Dem 33
Tory 128
Green 52
Shame - A Labour defeat but s actually not as bad as I thought it would be given the circumstances. This is not a victory for "Respect" but for...
"UNISON, the UK’s biggest union, with more than 600,000 members working in local councils, today called on consultants and government ministers to get their facts right on local government pensions. nbsp;
The call follows a claim by John Balfe, so-called “independent” pensions consultant,...Dear EditorEast Ham Tory Chair, Neil Pearce, s entitled to criticise our West Ham MP, Lyn Brown, for what he apparently believes to be her “politicising” of Remembrance Sunday (letters 1 Dec). But does he really have to use such personal language? He describes her comments as...
A man linked to two bomb blasts in Stockholm at the weekend had stormed out of a mosque in England several years ago and never returned after its leader challenged him over his radical ideas. 
An American Christian preacher who caused global uproar by threatening to burn the Koran plans to visit Britain to speak at an event by a far-right anti-Islamist group.
This morning, I stumbled upon a map generator written by NASA called G.Projector. It’s really good fun to play with: It’s reasonably fast (especially considering that it’s written in Java), it knows dozens of different map projections, and there are lots of parameters to adjust. As an example, I created an Azimuthal Equidistant projection (in [...]