Clarifying the ambition for much more cricket at the Meadows Recreation Ground; resisting the nonsense of the claim that an Aldi on Queens Road was driven by concern for The Meadows; getting ready for a Christmas tree at Bridgeway Centre, and for 20mph speed limits across The Meadows.
National government and national politics continue to disappoint. Unemployment in Bridge ward is set to be down a fifth in a year, but it don’t feel like it. All that fuss about the deficit and the debt, all that austerity, and about immigration – yet Next are advertising jobs in Britain abroad before at home – whilst we’ve sought to clamp down on the international students who actually bring trade and sustain jobs.
The deficit is increasing cos more people are in low paid or low hours works.
When will we ever learn that the way to succeed is for all that are able to work in jobs with proper rates and proper security?
We can do better; we should do better.
In the spirit of Stella Smedley, whose adult life was devoted to the cause of the people; and in attendance of Remembrance events that help us remember why we should do better; a local Lancaster veteran who went on 40 sorties; a history talk that told the stories of the Nottingham goods station workers who lost their lives in WWI for a better country; and some new art that lifts one part of The Meadows.
Meanwhile, awards for local bus services and street cleaning.
Matters reported to me now at around 1200, from perhaps 500 different people; news shared in nearly 1500 posts.
Links to the November’s stories available at –
http://www.labourblogs.com/public-blog/michaeledwards/31441/
