Droitwich & Evesham Labour Party marked the publication of the Government’s ambitious crackdown on fly-tipping by urging Wychavon District Council to use their new powers to the full to end the scourge of increasing ‘waste crime’. Freedom of Information requests to Wychavon reveal that reports… Read More »What a Lot of Rubbish!
The 10% extra that Reform-run Worcestershire wanted from our Council Tax has been trimmed to 9% by the Labour government. The County Council’s tax-increase demand comes despite the Council getting £33 million of emergency government funding this year, plus millions in extra government grants to… Read More »Press release: Worcestershire Reform’s 10% council tax demand
Finally, we have a government prepared to fund local services says Sue Wood-Griffith For over a decade up to last summer our Worcestershire County Council was politically allied to successive national Conservative governments and shared their ‘small-state’, privatising ideology. During this period, we all know… Read More »Letters: Labour boosts Worcestershire services
Brian Gregory asks why local MPs are so concerned about VAT on private school fees. It is an indication of how far our local MPs, Nigel Huddleston and Harriet Baldwin, are from aligning with the real concerns of most average citizens that they both chose… Read More »Letters: School Fee VAT
Taxes aren’t a “burden” – they’re what pays for civilisation, says Dr Peter Daw How depressingly predictable has been the reaction of the right-wing press and Conservative politicians to the first Labour Budget in 14 years. You would think from their comments that we lived… Read More »Letters: A budget for rebuilding.
Dr Peter Daw asks whose side Nigel Huddleston is really on – and why his election leaflet says “Conservative” in such small letters. Residents of Evesham and Droitwich constituency will have begun to receive our local MP’s election leaflet. It is comic to see the… Read More »Letters: The Peoples’ Friend?
The Tory government’s failure to act is a staggering betrayal of Wychavon renters. The Conservatives promised to ban no-fault evictions in April 2019 – yet almost five years on the practice is still legal. Now we hear that they have abandoned their pledge to ban… Read More »Letters: Renters’ Rights
Droitwich & Evesham CLP Member, Dr Peter Daw, calls for some honesty over the budget It is surely time for some honesty rather than spin about the recent budget. While the Chancellor and his hapless Government Treasury team (among them our own local MP) seek… Read More »Letters: Some Honesty Over the Budget
Evesham Branch Secretary, Sue Wood-Griffiths, highlights the problem of no-fault evictions and Labour’s plan to combat them New analysis from Droitwich and Evesham Labour – based on new figures published by the Ministry of Justice this month – reveals there are now 59 local families… Read More »Letters: No-Fault Evictions
Data analysis by Droitwich & Evesham Labour Party shows a blow to apprenticeships as fewer people start training in Wychavon The number of apprenticeship starters across Wychavon has fallen over 28 percent since 2015, according to data analysis from the region’s Labour Party. Uptake in… Read More »Blow to Apprenticeships as Fewer People Start Training