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Just watched Yvette Cooper’s conference speech. Yvette is not only the Work and Pensions secretary but is MP for the neighbouring constituency to us, Pontefract and Castleford. Wow, I have to say I was very impressed with what Yvette had to say and the passion with which she delivered it. Yvette told us about the good Continue reading Yvette Cooper’s inspiring conference speech Leeds City Council reports that an Asbo has been given to a 14 year old girl in Wetherby to try to curb her drunken, threatening and violent behaviour. Earlier interventions had failed to control Catherine Emery’s behaviour. The Asbo will put strict controls on her for a two year period. Asbos are an effective tool Continue reading Wetherby girl given Asbo It’s a blow that bus company First has axed two Leeds night buses including the 921 Leeds – Swillington, especially as this could compromise public safety. The story is in tonight’s Yorkshire Evening Post. I would have thought that with the recession more people would be in need of public transport. I would be very Continue reading Safety concerns over axing of Elmet and Rothwell night bus This is a pic from the protest in Parliament Square I mentioned in my last post. Object and Fawcett took part and it was good to see a good few MPs there! I wrote to my two local Labour MPs about this urging them to support the EDM and I’m pleased to say that both Continue reading lap dancing clubs have the same licence as cafes I’m in London tomorrow looking at venues for a conference I’m organizing so I’ll be able to join the Fawcett Society protest as part of their ‘Sexism in the City’ campaign. Having written to my local Labour MP Colin Challen to ask him to support the EDM 1375 and Roberta Blackman Woods’ 10 Minute Rule Continue reading Lapdancing clubs need law reform That’s still cause for celebration in itself, and especially as we now have a woman running for the most powerful job in the world, the US President, go Hillary! The whole race over there is very exciting and it’s also great to see the first black person Barack Obama in the running too. I think Continue reading 90 years ago today women got the vote Been extremely busy and out of the blogging habit. Following May’s election, we had our beautiful daughter Esme in the summer so I’ve been spending lots of quality time with her, and have continued with my campaigning in Rothwell and helping out constituents. Only a week after having Esme, I was sorting out a social Continue reading Karen’s catch up I was interested to read in yesterday’s Guardian about some of Ruth Kelly’s plans for social housing which included helping people onto the housing ladder by giving them the option to buy 10% of their council or housing association home. More interesting is Luke Akehurst’s blog entry having seen Ruth Kelly speak on housing policy Continue reading Prioiritising social housing Interesting article in today’s Guardian about Ruth Kelly’s plans that councillors should get their own budget to make it easier for them to help local people sort out problems quickly. This amount could be £10,000. This comes as part of a drive to try to make our councillors more representative of the people they represent, which Continue reading £10K councillors spend to bring more diversity? I’d like to be able to say that I don’t watch big brother but like many people I have had a few sneaky looks. What I’ve seen when I have tuned in is bullying and many of the remarks have also been racist. The victim , Shilpa Shetty, the Bollywood actress, is said to be a Continue reading Big Brother allows racist bullying |
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