It would be “immoral” to “burden the next generation with higher debts” – The...
The Coalition of cabinet millionaires just do not have a clue how difficult their intention to treble fees will make going to University for young people from middle and lower income families. They...
View ArticleLib Dem Hypocrisy: Social Housing
In a speech to Liberal Democrats’ spring conference in Birmingham on 13 March 2010, Teather said Conservative plans to abolish subsidised rents for Council and housing association homes would be a...
View ArticleFull Council Meeting 22nd November 2010 (last night)
Yesterday was the night of the Full Brent Council Meeting. One of the items on the agenda was the first reading of the Council Budget. Not one Tory or Lib Dem Councillor seemed to ask a question on any...
View ArticleShhhhh….. Don’t mention the cuts
What has been the single most prominent theme on the public agenda in the last few months? No, I’m not offering any prizes for guessing. The answer is plain and simply the cuts. Our MP for Brent...
View ArticleBrent anger over fees
Brent Labour received an overwhelming positive response this weekend as we were joined by Labour Students and Labour Young Labour on the streets of Brent with our petition calling for our local MP to...
View ArticleParents still angry over tuition fees
I don’t think this will go away as an issue for a long while. I was out knocking on doors in Dudden Hill on Saturday as well as in Kenton Ward on Sunday, campaigning for Ellie Southwood’s by-election...
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE: local Lib Dem tactics –“pick a cut and champion it”
This is exactly the reason why the Lib Dems cannot be trusted at the local level as well as not a people are realising at the national. A secret local Lib Dem document from a North London local...
View ArticleUniversity Chief says the Coalition Ministers were wrong over tuition fees
Source: Left Food Forward - Nick Clegg before the election, holding up a signed pledge that he will not increase tuition fees At the same time as fees going up, Universities have had their funding...
View ArticleTory Liberals attack people’s right to vote!
The Lib Dems and Conservatives have schemed a method of voter registration that will counteract one of the most basic principles of a modern democratic society; the right to vote. At the moment, one...
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