Last Week – Not quite a Brief ReviewLast week started with a meeting of the Development Plan Select, the committee which has the work of reviewing the Development Plan for the borough as it develops and gradually takes over from the current local plan. Last Mondays meeting included items on Woods Mill in Glossop, the […]
The Thursday morning started with the results of the policy forum, which saw the member nominated by the constituency earlier this year all been elected, however there was the loss of some existing members of the policy forum including Gary Ransford from North East Derbyshire. The rest of the morning was largely taken up with […]
Again after attending a policy Q&A; session, I spent the morning in training session, the two on the Wednesday morning been about ‘building an inclusive party’ and ‘campaigning on local issue’.The first session was looking at the challenge of involving and campaigning with ethic minority voters and other difficult to reach groups, with the second […]
After an earlier Q&A; session I started off Tuesday, with another training session, this time on the theme of ‘beating the lib dems’. The main presenter of this was Tom Watson, now an MP, but formally at different times an organizer for the Party and head of the political office for at the time the […]
As part of the aims of building a stronger party, at various points during the conference there are a number of training sessions looking at how the party can be improved. Monday started off with two training sessions which I attended on working together, and effective scrutiny. The second of which on effective scrutiny featuring […]
As part of the response to the Transport debate, the General Secretary’s of ASLEF and TSSA, both spoke critising the government for there lack of action on the conference resolution of last year to take the railways back under public control, there contributions seemed to have a warm welcome from the delegates in the conference. […]
Sunday started off, with a briefing on the partnership in power review process, and the document a stronger voice for members. The briefing was from Hazel Blears MP, Simon Burgess of the NPF and Kemlesh Karia of Labour Party Staff.They reviewed the document, stressing the importance of the document and the process that the document […]
As this years constituency delegate to the Labour Party Conference in Brighton, I thought I would use my blog, to provide a daily update to events and happenings at conference, please note as with all entries on the blog / my website these are my own views and not necessarily the view of any part […]
This last week, saw a meeting of the Jericho Project to review the draft report of High Peak CVS, who have been working as consultants looking into future options for the Jericho Project. The report presented by Tony Okotie, gave a number of options to be considered for the future of the project, and provoked […]
