Salford’s new elected Mayor Ian Stewart announced his cabinet yesterday and while the people who fill his cabinet positions are perhaps not that surprising, their “titles” are a tad strange. Take for example the Assistant Mayor for International Relations. Why does a city need such a thing? Is our new elected mayor planning on seceding from the United Kingdom?
In addition to the Assistant Mayor for International Relations, the new mayor has formed a cabinet larger than the Scottish administration currently running an entire country. Perhaps Salford has more complex problems than the whole of Scotland? If so, it’s a worrying time for all Salfordians.
Without doubt I am sure Ian Stewart will answer my questions over time, but perhaps the most perplexing question currently circulating opposition members on Salford City Council (and those recently kicked off it) is with regards to the cabinet position of the city’s newly elected Councillor for Langworthy ward. In addition to his role as Strategic Assistant Mayor (whatever that is), he has also been bestowed with the title of ‘Assistant Mayor for Humanegement and Workplace Reform.
No, that’s not a typo. You read that right – humanegement. At first everyone just assumed it was an error and we all believed our spellcheckers when that wriggly red underline warned us that isn’t a real world. So we changed it. The Salford Star and the Manchester Evening News separately amended the ‘mistake’ to Human Engagement. Salford Online went for Management and Workplace Reform. All three were wrong.
Stephen Kingston of the The Salford Star even went one step further after comments on his website suggested he’d got it wrong – he called the council. At first they weren’t exactly sure what the correct title was supposed to be but eventually clarified that it was, as originally published, Humanegement and Workplace Reform.
But what exactly is humanegement? And how do you pronounce it?
The former has finally been answered by Salford’s new mayor. Ian Stewart says “Humanegement is a word I have created to describe humane engagement with staff. It is an alternative to the term human resources, which I feel makes employees sound like commodities. I therefore prefer to use this term as effective working with staff is about engagement, working with them to get the best possible outcomes.”
That answers the first question, but what about the second? I’ve been having fun with that all weekend – perhaps the council could publish some guidance on its website. A downloadable MP3 perhaps?
Filed Under (Finance, Health) by Lisa Armitage on 1st May 2012
People are struggling to cope with rising food, fuel and mortgage bills and the politicians in Government fighting their corner are the Liberal Democrats. It’s largely thanks to them that there have been a some tax policies to help low and middle income earners who need as much help as they can get at the moment with the rising cost of living.
The Liberal Democrats achieved one of their main objectives in the budget which was to help the less well off. As a result the Government has raised the tax threshold and cut taxes for low and middle earners of which there are an estimated 20 million people. It is likely they may have had no one to press their cause without the Lib Dems in Government.
They were right to join the Government in the Coalition. It can only be positive that the Lib Dems are part of the coalition helping to introduce a more liberal prospective on policies which can be tough on anyone other than the wealthy. It is best to be part of the Government being able to tweak their proposals from the inside than being on the outside and having no power to do so, just being dismissed as the third party.
It is much easier to have a positive effect on Government policies if you are working inside it, than if you are left outside in the cold and can easily be ignored. Business Secretary Vince Cable is one of the few members of the coalition Government who has repeatedly attacked city big bonuses which are long overdue for reform. The city must take its share of the blame for landing the economy in its present mess. However individuals are not really to blame. They took bonuses when they were awarded them but the were handed out for the wrong reasons. City workers got bonuses which were calculated on the volume of business they carried out regardless of the merit of the business. There were no safeguards to ensure that the business they were being rewarded for was in fact boosting the economy. The didn’t have to look further than just getting people to sign on the bottom line so even if the business turned sour they had successfully worked towards their bonus. In the end they had done so many ‘bad’ deals, detrimental to the economy that we all suffered. As Vince Cable put it: “A bad message was sent: that unrestrained greed is acceptable.” The whole system of getting bonuses should be reformed, as the incentive was to do business regardless of the consequences. No one wants to be in this present economic crisis again.
It is the Lib Dems whose main objective is to fight for those who work long hours for a modest wage rather than the rich and super wealthy. It is the Lib Dems who work hard for people who cannot afford to enjoy a luxury lifestyle thanks to inherited family wealth. Vince Cable is willing to stick his neck out and attack big bonuses. He is a man that understands the vast majority people who have to work hard to keep their head above water. He is still calling for “tighter control on bank pay and bonuses,” and being a determined grafter he hasn’t given up on it yet, he is still working towards it.
The Lib Dems are putting clinicians in the NHS driving seat as it is doctors and nurses who know what patients need therefore it is only right that they decide what treatment patients get, where and when. GPs, nurses and clinicians will arrange the services patients need, rather than managers who are not medically trained and are better at running businesses. Medically trained staff will decide what is needed medically in a local area, and local councils will in future be given a new role to help organize and set up the health services in a community.
Patients who suffer from long term conditions, like diabetes, don’t want to spend their life in and out of hospital, so the Lib Dems are making it easier for the NHS and local councils to work together to make sure the best patient care is provided conveniently and even perhaps in patients’ own home if that’s possible without compromising patient safety. They are committed to making sure waiting times are kept low, while at the clinical standards rise.
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Lisa Armitage is a freelance writer who covers business topics relevant to small businesses across the land including finding deals on shop insurance the fight against big city bonuses which damage everyone and benefit very few.
A few days ago I gave an interview at Salford University where I was asked my views about community policing in Salford. A four and a half minute extract of the interview edited by Kat Middleton is below where I talk about how well our local neighbourhood policing team are doing and how they can improve. The interview briefly touched on the council’s partnership with Greater Manchester Police and I explained how the council could be doing more to promote anti-crime initiatives.
I live very close to Buile Hill Park in Salford and use the park every day (to walk Dexter, my dog). It’s a beautiful park and I consider myself extremely lucky to live near such a great open space (in fact, luck had little to do with it, I specifically moved here because of the proximity to the park).
Over the last few weeks, without any consultation or notice to Buile Hill Park’s regular users, work began to tear up a large section of the grass seen in the picture below to install a cricket pitch. A 20m long section of natural grass was cut out and replaced with artificial grass.
Many of the park users were surprised when the work started, firstly because we knew nothing about it until the work had started. Secondly, many of us thought it was an odd location for the cricket pitch. The crease was mere centimetres from one of the goalposts that make up a set heavily used by local youths. Don’t get me wrong, I have seen local kids playing cricket in Buile Hill Park (once), whereas there are lads playing football almost every day it is dry. It seemed impossible for a game of cricket and a football match to be played at the same time, given the proximity of the crease to the goalpost.
On Thursday afternoon I noticed the goalposts have disappeared. Who has stolen our goalposts? They belong to the park and were installed for the benefit of the users of Buile Hill Park. Nobody has any right to take them away without asking us first.
I have brought this up with Langworthy’s Lib Dem Councillor Drake who has started to probe the council for answers. I fear we won’t know who is responsible until after the election.
I have nothing against cricket (regular visitors to my blog will know I am a big football fan) and if both cricket and football pitches can be accomodated in Buile Hill Park I would be happy to have them co-exist, but damaging the park and making wholesale alterations without notifying it’s users is just not on.
Salford Council needs to learn that consultation with it’s residents over important changes is vital and necessary. My fear is that if Labour wipe out opposition members off the council at the local elections in less than 2 weeks time, this kind of totalitarionistic approach will be all to common across our great city.
Nominations closed at 12 noon today and the Liberal Democrats are standing in all 20 seats across Salford. Additionally, Claremont Councillor Norman Owen is standing for Mayor as the official Liberal Democrat candidate.
Councillor Owen said today: “We have excellent, hard working candidates in 20 seats across Salford and in many of those wards, especially the inner-city wards, it’s a straight fight between the Lib Dems and Labour. Labour have admitted that under their leadership of this city mistakes have been made, why else would they have selected an ex-Eccles MP to run Salford instead of their current leader?”.
“Labour’s Mayoral candidate has no local government experience and was booted out by Labour in 2010 when his seat was abolished. They selected Hazel Blears instead.” he added. “If Ian Stewart is not good enough to represent Salford & Eccles, how is he good enough to lead the entire Salford City Council?”
Steve Middleton is the Lib Dem candidate in Irwell Riverside ward for the local election on 3 May.
Filed Under (Finance, Politics) by Steve Middleton on 21st March 2012
A £3.5bn tax cut for working people
Biggest single ever uplift in the tax threshold
21 million working people getting an extra £220 tax cut
Tycoon Tax raises FIVE times as much from the super-rich
The Liberal Democrats have ensured this is a budget for the millions not for the millionaires, delivering a £3.5billion tax cut to average working people.
That’s why the biggest move in this Budget is a tax cut for ordinary workers, going further and faster towards the Liberal Democrat goal of making the first ten thousand pounds you earn tax-free. From the front page of our manifesto directly to the pockets of working people.
Thanks to Liberal Democracts, people working full time on the minimum wage, will have seen their income tax bill cut in half.
We have delivered on Nick Clegg’s pledge to go further and faster on the personal tax allowance. This means that 21m basic rate taxpayers will get an extra £220 cut in their income tax bills and a further 840,000 people will be taken out of paying income tax altogether.
This Budget brings the personal allowance to £9,205 in April 2013
This Budget brings the total tax cut for basic rate tax payers to £550.
This Budget brings the total number of people lifted out of tax to 2 million.
Lib Dem Top Ten
Biggest ever uplift in the tax threshold to £9,205
21 million working people getting an extra £220 tax cut
Tycoon Tax raises FIVE times as much from the super-rich
Cutting corporation tax to help British business
Stamp duty increased to 7% for multi-million pound homes
Lib Dem tax cuts have saved average working people £550
2 million low paid no longer face income tax
New 15% tax on companies buying property over £2m
Child benefit protected for middle-class families
Getting more money from the banks to loan more to British businesses
Filed Under (Politics) by Steve Middleton on 18th January 2012
President of the Liberal Democrats, Tim Farron MP, has written to Lib Dem members today. Here’s his letter in full:-
Are two Eds better than one? I’m not sure – but the two Eds said something very interesting over the weekend: apparently they don’t have a ‘Plan B’ for the economy after all.
You’ll have heard Simon Hughes and I over the weekend rightly calling on the two Eds to apologise. We want them to apologise to the British public for deceiving them for 18 months. However, there is one apology we didn’t call for publicly, but which they still should make – that’s an apology to you.
Last May across the country, from Lancaster to Sheffield and Manchester to Newcastle, many of you lost your council seats to undeserving Labour candidates who were fighting their elections on a false platform with dishonest messages. They stood on a platform that the Eds now admit was wrong. Shame on them – but I’m proud of you.
In addition, Nick Clegg deserves an apology. Nick has been berated and abused by the Labour leadership for having the guts to stand up and work as part of the Coalition in the best interest of the country. Now Labour have admitted that their attacks were inaccurate – but there’s no hint of apology. They have gone from being in the wrong place, to all over the place.
That leaves the Liberal Democrats as the only political party with the backbone to tackle the country’s problems, but with the heart to do everything to ensure that fairness, compassion and justice are written through everything we do.
As this article from The Times recognises, the Liberal Democrats are a progressive force in Government. We are the Party delivering tax cuts for working people, we are the party investing in the poorest school pupils, we are the party delivering the largest ever state pension rise and importantly, we are the party prepared to take the tough decisions needed to get this country back on track.
So don’t hold your breath waiting for an apology from Labour – but rest assured you are most definitely owed one!
I have written more about this on Lib Dem Voice, and you can see my full article here.
Filed Under (Referendum, Salford) by Steve Middleton on 17th January 2012
On 14th December last year Salford, Worsley & Eccles Liberal Democrats called a public debate over the issue of an elected mayor for our city. Leader of Salford Liberal Democrats, Councillor Owen, invited Councillor Merry (leader of the council and member of the “NO” campaign) and referendum organisors Geoffrey Berg & Stephen Morris (English Democrats) of the “YES” campaign to debate the pros and cons.
On the issue of an elected mayor for Salford, locally the Liberal Democrats are firmly in the “NO” camp and have aligned ourselves with Salford Labour and support their campaign for a “NO” vote. However, Liberal Democrats were keen to see how Berg & Morris could fulfill their flagship promise of “lowering the city’s council tax by half, or more than half” – especially since we felt, if it could have been done, we would already have proposed such a cut.
Former Worsley Lib Dem Councillor Bob Boyd asked the first question and I was fortunate to ask the second question – sadly, neither were answered satisfactorily.
The debate was recorded by the English Democrats North West Secretary Val Morris, and it’s her comments you can hear at various points throughout the recording.
It was a rather long debate (indeed it was almost 40 minutes before I got to speak), but anyone who was not able to attend on the night and is still undecided about whether to vote “YES” or “NO” should most certainly watch it!
Filed Under (Politics) by Steve Middleton on 15th January 2012
Who could not be inspired by these words of encouragement from Jason Hunter:
“Liberal Democrats – In Government, On Your Side……20 months on from the creation of the coalition….
A labour supporter said about the LibDems:
“why would we want to be in a Coalition with a party who have been more than happy to ditch their principles just to get cabinet jobs.”
I’ll tell you why … its because you are simply wrong my friend.
The libdems went into coalition to implement libdem policy, and in this parliament they are implementing over 75% of their manifesto commitments (according to the BBC and University College London).
Taking millions of low earners out of income tax, and ensuring that all workers pay £700 less tax on the first £10,000 they earn.
Making sure that kids in school who need extra help can actually get it from the £2.5 billion in the pupil premium.
Ensuring that EVERY 18-24 year old can learn or earn with the Youth Contract starting this April.
Creating hundreds of thousands of apprenticeship places for the 55% of our 16-18 year olds that don’t go on to further education.
Creating the Green Investment Bank to create sustainable jobs for those youngsters when they finish their apprenticeships.
Triple locking pensions for the elderly to put an end to 75p increases that labour gave our elderly. It gave pensioners an extra £4.50 last year and another £5.50 this April.
Implementing a new team at HMRC to stop tax avoidance and evasion by the 350,000 wealthiest people in the nation…. not just the 5,000 that labour focussed on.
Clamping down on big business to make sure they pay taxes due in the UK… not letting them off £25 billion like Labour did with Goldman Sachs and Vodafone etc.
Breaking up the banks to ensure that if they want to gambling at the investment bank casino, they do it with their own money and not the taxpayers.
I could go on, but you get the point.
Have we done everything we wanted? No, of course not, we don’t have a majority government, we came third in GE2010 and have just 8.7% of seats in parliament.
Have we been able to stop the Tories doing everything we don’t like? No, we havnt, we are outnumbered 5 Tories to each LibDem in the coalition.
Have we influenced positive policies far beyond our expected ability? Definitely.
Have LibDem policies influenced the economy? Darn tootin they have.
Was borrowing lower last year than in 2010? Yes it was.
Have we been in recession in the last 20 months? No, we havnt. We have had consecutive growth figures every quarter.
In 2011 was the tax collected a record breaking year? Yes, it was.
When interest rates are going up around the world, ours has come down from the 4%+ that Labour left to just over 2% today, one of the lowest of all our peers.
Do we still have our triple A credit rating when those around us are losing theirs? Yes we do.
Labour say its not working, but with times around the world far worse now than during Labours governance, we are keeping our heads above water….. labour took us into two consecutive periods of recession in better times than this.
Is everything rosy? No, of course not, but are the libdems punching above their weight? Oh yeah baby, they sure are.”
Filed Under (Politics) by Steve Middleton on 15th January 2012
After nearly two years of no fiscal policies whatsoever, current Labour leader Ed Miliband and Labour’s shadow chancellor Ed Balls have both made similar statements over the last 24 hours defending the coalition government’s public sector pay freeze. This is in stark contrast to just a few weeks ago when both were still spurting out their “too fast, too soon” narrative – however, following Labour peer Lord Glasman and Blackley & Broughton MP Graham Stringer’s criticism of Ed Miliband’s leadership they have now changed their tune completely.
Now, following a complete fiscal policy u-turn by Miliband and Balls, Labour support the cuts and agree that a 1% pay rise over the next couple of years for public sector workers is the right thing for our country. I am a public sector worker, I don’t want my pay to be capped, but I was smart enough to realise in 2010 that it was necessary. As a result, of the public sector pay freezes, I have had to forgoe certain luxuries (overseas holidays etc) – but I know that in the longer term, we’ll all be better off if we sort our finances out sooner rather than later.
The PCS and Unison unions disagree. They are now starting to distance themselves from Labour and following statements from both those unions over the last day, I suspect this is the beginning of the end for Labour. Certainly when unions that support Labour financially claim that the party is “emulating the Tories on many issues” and the BBC reports that PCS union leader Mark Serwotka has said Mr Balls’ comments were “hugely disappointing”, while the general secretary of the RMT rail union said he was signing “Labour’s electoral suicide note”.
Nobody can blame the unions for acting they way they do (and saying what they say), after all – they are simply protecting their own interests. But public service unions have no interest in anything outside their little “public sector” world and need to realise that we are all in this together. This country will be better off when everyone accepts that cuts to “nice to have” services rather than services we “need and can’t do without” have to happen.
The Tories and Liberal Democrats realised that in 2010 – it’s taken a further two years for Ed Miliband and Ed Balls to realise it. When are the rest of Labour going to catch up?
Milband and Balls may have signed Labour’s electoral suicide note, but it’ll be Labour’s grassroots activists that bury the corpse of the party if they continue down the old and tired “too fast, too soon” argument.
Filed Under (Employment) by Steve Middleton on 20th December 2011
The steady rise in youth unemployment since 2004 has now reached over the one million mark. That’s more than one in five 16-24 year olds not in education, training or work: not because they are lazy or feckless, but because of factors well beyond their control. In Salford, shockingly more than 2,500 18-24 year olds are currently on Jobseeker’s Allowance.
This is worrying. If young people are out of work, the consequences of that will be felt for decades afterwards. We need to ensure that the young people of today do not have a false start and help us build the new economy of the future.
That’s why Lib Dem Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg has unveiled the Youth Contract, worth £1bn. Starting next April, the Youth Contract will provide at least 410,000 new work places over the next three years for 18 to 24-year olds to help them into work, including 160,000 wage subsidies and 250,000 new work experience placements.
They will also receive extra support from the JobCentre Plus after they have been on JSA for 3 months. This will range from help with CV and applications to a careers interview from the National Careers Service.
Not only that, but the Coalition Government is also making 20,000 more incentive payments available to encourage employers to take on young apprentices.
Lastly, it will also help those most in need of support, those 16 and 17-year olds who are persistently not in employment, education or training (NEETs). This new £50m programme will focus on the most disengaged of the 26,000 in the North West of England to get them learning, on an apprenticeship or in a job with training.
As a Liberal Democrat, I’m proud that while we’re clearing up the economic mess that Labour left behind, the Coalition Government is ensuring that our children do not bear the consequences of Labour’s mistakes. This is the right thing to do to prevent another lost generation.
Filed Under (Roads, Transport) by Steve Middleton on 19th December 2011
Continuing with my “blast from the past”, the video below is an interview with me, by Sky News presenter Colin Brazier, where I took the government to task a few years ago over it’s plans to increase tax on petrol and diesel. Also participating in the debate was Mike Rutherford from the Motorists Association and CONSERVATIVE MP Tim Yeo. While I think I made some valid points, this wasn’t my finest performance (at one point I inadvertently inferred that Tim Yeo was a Labour MP, of course I knew that he was a Tory, as Colin had just pointed it out moments before).
I guess I was a little infuriated with the idea of the already high price of fuel going up even more, simply because the Labour government at the time had little idea what else to do.
NOTE: At the time, I lived in Prestwich, Manchester – hence the introduction. I start speaking around the 4 minute mark, but it’s worth listening to the whole interview to get an idea of the issues at the time (of which, the issue of high petrol prices and car tax rates is still a big problem today).
Filed Under (Football) by Steve Middleton on 18th December 2011
Back in 2006 I was interviewed live on air a few times on Sky News by Colin Brazier. When the video below was originally broadcast, Steve McClaren was the manager of the England national football team and he had just dropped David Beckham from the squad. I didn’t think it was a particularly good idea at the time (and I still stand by that now).
Filed Under (Referendum, Salford) by Steve Middleton on 15th December 2011
If you’re politically naive, then it’s generally not a good idea to accept a public debate challenge from two veterans of local politics – but that’s exactly what Geoffrey Berg (Salford’s elected mayor petition organiser) did last night.
I’ve written extensively on my blog about the elected mayor referendum that was forced by Mr Berg and his English Democrat sidekicks but as Salford approached the actual referendum date (and following some active letter writing for both the “YES” and “NO” campaign in the local paper), Councillor Norman Owen, leader of the Liberal Democrat group on Salford City Council challenged the “YES” camp to a public debate.
Councillor Owen was joined by leader of Salford City Council (and leader of the Salford Labour group), Councillor John Merry on the “NO” side whilst Geoffrey Berg and Stephen Morris of the English Democrats spoke for the “YES” camp, who were bizarrely directed in what to say (and who should say it) by Michael Moulding of the Community Action Party.
Whilst I have not been involved in local politics as long as Councillor’s Owen and Merry, in all my years I have never witnessed such a spectacle. Fortunate, to ask the second question, I quizzed Mr Berg on his bold claim that an elected mayor would “halve or more than halve Salford’s Council tax”. I was intruiged as to how he could promise such a saving, given that Salford has already been through several rounds of efficiency savings and staff redundancies.
What followed was embarrassing. Actually, it would have been very funny if this topic was not so serious (and costing the city hundreds of thousands of pounds it can ill afford).
Mr Berg failed, spectacularly, to answer my question – in fact, he waffled so incoherently I tried to press him to actually give me some indication of how he could halve Salford’s council tax. He couldn’t. This infuriated many members of the audience who had obviously come with an open mind about the idea of an elected mayor for Salford, and so the probing questions continued long after I had sat back down.
Many bizarre and insulting statements followed from Mr Berg and his English Democrat colleague. From direct personal attacks of Councillor Merry to a dismissal of the hard work local Councillors do in their local communities, the “YES” camp systematically offended virtually everyone in the room. Their “policies” were laughable, at one point claiming that Salford’s higher council tax hurt the poorest the hardest, yet failing to realise that the poorest tend to receive council tax benefit, meaning they don’t even pay it.
That was not the worst of it.
Asked by one audience member if they had even costed what they proposed, Mr Berg floundered, waffled and comprehensively failed to explain how he could possibly pay for any of what he was proposing. Fortunately, Councillor Owen and Councillor Merry were on hand to give Mr Berg a 101 in local council economics and with that the “YES” camp were finished.
One of the last questions asked what made Mr Berg qualified to speak about the pros and cons of an elected mayor for Salford and apparently the answer was that he had once (briefly) been a Conservative councillor in Bury. My recollection is that was the one question he actually answered.
Local Conservative party councillors, members and activists were conspicuous by their absence at the elected mayor debate last night – no doubt they wanted to distance themselves from Geoffrey Berg (who could blame them).
At 11am today, Liberal Democrat Councillor Owen will debate with Geoffrey Berg on Salford City Radio (94.4FM). If you live within the reception area, I urge you to listen in. You can also listen on-line at http://www.salfordcityradio.org/listen.php
A new planning application has been received by Salford City Council to erect a 4-bedroom house on the vacant land at the junction of Liverpool Street and Derby Road in Langworthy. The plot is adjacent to the Moorlands Sports and Social Club.
Application number: 11/60734/FUL
You can read the full application and view maps and illustrations of the proposed building at Salford City Council’s Planning Portal by clicking here and using the search facility for the above application number.
Navigate to the ‘documents’ link and all the details are accessible in PDF format.
Langworthy residents may wish to note that the applicant wishes to close off part of the public footpath (on Liverpool Street).
I would be interested to hear the comments of both Langworthy and Weaste residents with regards to this proposed development – comments can also be submitted to the planners via Salford City Council’s planning portal (link above).
I would expect the council’s planning panel to consider the application in the new year.
Earlier this autumn the Boundary Commission published its proposals for reducing the number of MPs in England from 650 to 600 while equalising the size of most constituencies.
While some of the new boundaries the Commission is proposing are sensible, many more needlessly tear the heart out of the communities they serve and will make effective representation in Parliament much more difficult.
We are now in a period of consultation and as a local party – supported by our colleagues in the Liberal Democrat North West regional office and National Headquarters – we have put in a series of counter-proposals.
These back the Commission where we feel it has got it right; and put forward better solutions where we feel it is necessary, using the expertise of our members from across the region.
We know our plans are better because they have been produced by people who live and breathe in the communities affected.
However, to stand a chance of persuading the Commission to adopt our counter-proposal, we need your help.
You can see here what the Boundary Commission have proposed for the North West (which affectively wipes Salford off the map and puts Langworthy into Manchester).
Below you can see our counter-proposal for the existing Salford area constituencies:
Worsley and Eccles Constituency Boothstown and Ellenbrook
Worsley and Eccles Constituency Little Hulton
Worsley and Eccles Constituency Walkden North
Worsley and Eccles Constituency Walkden South
Worsley and Eccles Constituency Winton
Worsley and Eccles Constituency Worsley
Worsley and Eccles Constituency Barton
Worsley and Eccles Constituency Eccles
Worsley and Eccles Constituency Swinton North
If you could take a minute to add your voice to the consultation via the commission’s website (here), we stand a far better chance of persuading them. There’s just two weeks before the deadline on December 5th. Please add your voice to ours in explaining why you feel they better serve your community.
The consultation is open to everyone and you can be sure the Conservatives and Labour are encouraging their members to take part too. As may be expected, those parties’ counter-proposals are not designed to make our lives any easier!
