Friday night saw this month’s constituency meeting, which discussed amongst various other items, whether the constituency should make a supporting nomination for the deputy leadership, and if we should, who it should be. A interesting debate with the merits or otherwise of Jon Cruddas, Hilary Benn, Hazel Blears and Harriet Harman being spoke about, but […]
Like fellow Labour Councillor Bob Piper, I have received today an email from the Hilary Benn campaign for the deputy leadership, and like Bob I was surprised with the strange opening for the email which started off with the following : Dear Friend It is now 3 weeks since the last set of local government […]
Today’s Guardian features an article from supporters of the Jon Cruddas campaign arguing that all of the candidates for the deputy leadership should have access to the full Labour Party membership list. Luke’s blog comments on the issue and in particular the impression from the article that Hazel Blears has access to the full Labour […]
Last Wednesday an event took place at Glossop Labour Club to celebrate 25 years of Glossop Community Transport and the work that it does both within Glossopdale and across the High Peak. Unfortunately due to been elsewhere I was unable to attend the event. However I am sure that those who were able to attend […]
Next Tuesday will see a meeting of the North Area Tenants Panel take place at Bredbury House in Glossop. The meeting will discuss a wide range of issues to do with High Peak Community Housing, and gives ‘Council tenants’ a good opportunity to have a say on forthcoming plans etc. As always with this meeting […]
Brown in Manchester Originally uploaded by AnthonyMck. Last Wednesday at New Century Hall next to the HQ of the Co-operative in Manchester, Gordon Brown was ‘in conversation’ with Oona King. The format was a Q&A; session hosted by Oona King that started off with a few general questions on Gordon’s background and a few of […]
As part of a response to the impending ban on smoking in public places, a number of local pubs are either in the process of planning ‘facilities’ such as a smoking shelter’s or have already built or put in for planning permission to get them built. As far as I know the Centurion on the […]
Friday 4th May saw a meeting of the Gamesley and Charlesworth safer neighbourhood team. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to attend due to been at the local elections count. However a number of local residents were and they received updates from the local beat team on a number of issue’s including the lend a cam scheme, […]
On a bad day locally for us, I was successfully elected for a 3 time to represent Gamesley on High Peak Borough Council. A big thank you to those of you that voted for me on Gamesley, and also to those of you elsewhere that voted Labour, particular in Hadfield South where my dad Bob […]