Campaigns - Beverley and Holderness Labour Party

DRILLING FOR ONSHORE OIL AND GAS AT WEST NEWTON, HOLDERNESS

A message for those friends and members of Beverley and Holderness Labour Party: HOLDERNESS AND THE EAST RIDING IN GENERAL NEEDS YOU – RATHLIN ENERGY IS AT IT AGAIN! Here is how: Leaving Sproatley on the B1238 you will come to a sharp bend in the road. Positioned exactly on…

ENDING ROUGH SLEEPING: A policy to change society for the better

I joined the Labour Party shortly after the 2019 General Election. It offered me hope at a dark time for the country. I am now at a point where I want to suggest policy and I believe my idea will give hope to the hopeless and a voice to those…

OUR CANDIDATES FOR BEVERLEY TOWN COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS

ST MARY’S WEST BY-ELECTION THURSDAY MARCH 12TH BARBARA FAWCETT ST MARY’S EAST BY-ELECTION THURSDAY MARCH 26TH JACKIE HEFFER Margaret Pinder, who heads the Labour Group on the Town Council introduces our two Labour candidates, Barbara Fawcett and Jackie Heffer, who have agreed to stand for the Town Council in St…

Hope for 1950s Born Women with Labour Pledge of Compensation

The Labour Party has announced that in government it will introduce a scheme of weekly payments to compensate 1950s born women who were unjustly hit by the Tories’ State Pension rise. Pay-outs of up to £31,000 will be made, with an average payment of £15,000, Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell, announced.…

Labour Announces a Rescue Plan for the NHS

Today Labour announced plans to rescue our National Health Service with a £40 billion extra cash boost for the NHS, including funding for: 5,000 more GPs and 28,000 extra nurses, midwives and health visitors; rebuilding crumbling hospitals and providing modern equipment to improve cancer care; a cash boost for mental…

Launching the Campaign

I was delighted yesterday evening to be supported at my campaign launch by the wonderful Emma Hardy, who is standing to be re-elected in Hull West and Hessle. It was wonderful to have the opportunity to talk to supporters about the policies and ambitions the Labour Party has for government…

Labour Will Support Families With Children

Under the Conservative and Liberal Democrat Coalition and then the Conservative Government families with children have suffered cuts to services and support, schools losing funding, a squeeze on living standards with below inflation wages, a rise in the cost of living, a freeze on benefits and the introduction of Universal…

MAKE VOTES MATTER!

Peterloo led eventually to electoral democracy but – as recent events show – there’s one big bit of unfinished business New evidence shows that it’s the Right that tend to benefit from the UK’s unequal electoral system. The Left is gradually embracing Proportional Representation, but it needs to move faster.…

Tory fiscal responsibility? Don’t make us laugh!

Your candidates for South West Holderness were out canvassing in Hedon over the weekend, and overall we had a positive response. What is always interesting about these sessions is the doorstep debates we get into (mostly polite and good-natured), and we are often given reasons why people won’t be voting…

STOP POST OFFICE PRIVATISATION

Campaigners will be out in force tomorrow morning in support of the Post Office workers campaign to prevent the franchising of the town’s Crown Post Office to WH Smith. Post Office managers are currently ‘consulting on proposals to transfer the town’s postal services to the high street stationer. The post…