Author: Miranda
Waltham Forest Mela 2007
I had an absolutely smashing day out at the Waltham Forest Mela 2007 on Sunday.
The sun were shining, the bhangra was pumping and the yummy yummy food was hot, hot, hot!
Many thanks and a huge well done to the excellent organising committee, of which my good colleague Cllr Asim Mahmood is a key member.
I know that Cllr Afzal Akram, Waltham Forest Council’s Labour Cabinet Member for Community Safety; Jennette Arnold, Waltham Forest’s Labour Member of the London Assembly; and the excellent Neil Gerrard MP, Labour’s Member of Parliament for Walthamstow (all pictured with me above, left – right), all had a very nice time too 🙂
Homes for the Future
As Leyton residents will know, I’ve been banging on about housing ever since I was elected as a local councillor last year. I am therefore delighted the Government published a new Green Paper on Housing earlier this week setting out new vision on the future for Britain’s housing.
Alongside watching my new Casino Royale DVD (Daniel Craig = yum yum) and engaging in some military pampering 🙂 I’m going to try and have a good read of this extremely important document over the weekend.
Have a good weekend!
India’s First Female President
This is really excellent news. A bit of shame that over in twenty first century Britain, however, our great Parliament still doesn’t contain even a single female Asian MP. Is this a priority for our three main political parties? Some of us sisters are beginning to wonder…
On the Fast Track with the Leadership Academy
Just got home from Coventry, where I spent the weekend on the final module of the ‘Fast Track’ programme of the Improvement and Development Agency’s (IDeA’s) excellent Leadership Academy for local councillors.
Since January, myself and other “young” councillors from all over the country have travelled up to the University of Warwick for some really great training on our role as councillors and almost everything involved Continue reading “On the Fast Track with the Leadership Academy”