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Well done Liverpool Labour!
How on earth did I miss this?
Anyway, I am delighted for new Councillor Colin Strickland and his Labour colleagues in Liverpool.
You’ve just cheered up this London councillor no end!
Very well done and best of luck with your elections in May!
Rethink Trident! – Breakfast with Vivienne!!!!
Another day, another breakfast. This morning it was off to Westminster to take part in the ‘Rethink Trident‘ breakfast rally.
The parliamentary debate on whether to renew Trident is happening as we speak. At the time of writing, it is said that over sixty Labour MPs could rebel and vote against Parliament having to vote through a definitive decision, at the end of tonight’s debate, on whether Britain should renew its nuclear weapons (POST VOTE UPDATE: 95 Labour MPs voted against the government’s motion). The Rethink Trident campaign has been calling for the decision to be delayed until a new Prime Minister is in place Continue reading “Rethink Trident! – Breakfast with Vivienne!!!!”
Breakfast with Ruth
Myself and Councillor Afzal Akram, from neighbouring Lea Bridge ward, attended a breakfast meeting with Ruth Kelly, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (pictured above left) and Dame Jane Roberts, former Leader of the London Borough of Camden (pictured above right), yesterday, to feed into the new Commission the Secretary of State has set up – being chaired by Dame Roberts – to look at ways of encouraging a more diverse range of people into becoming local councillors. Continue reading “Breakfast with Ruth”