Let's talk? Let's listen.
In the last 4 days I have spoken at Labour County Party, Trades Council and Co-Op Party meetings in Truro and Bedford. I'm going to Castle Point in Essex next week. Labour MPs are invited to address CLPs all the time and it is a good way of attracting members. But these meetings illustrated just how let down Party members feel over so many issues - particularly poverty, low wages and a lack of affordable housing in Cornwall. I was told that many local employers were actually reducing already low wages on the grounds that the government said they only needed to pay £5.35 an hour. A very good reason to raise the NMW within a very short period to at least £7 an hour.
In Bedford they were disillusioned that a lot more had not been done to tackle climate change and make sustainability the focus for all Government policies.
These meetings and their feedback are nothing short of inavaluable. I'd be very glad to know what are the specific issues in your area which you think are not getting the attention they deserve, and what ought to be done about them. Please click here to let me know what you are most concerned about.
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I sympathise with Bedford CLP's disappointment in the government's actions on climate change. Will the Climate Change Bill promised for the forthcoming Queen's Speech really make a difference if it does not hold the Government to account with binding targets for CO2 cuts? If we don't start bringing down CO2 soon, we might as well not bother!
Posted by: Sharon Charity | October 18, 2006 02:15 PM