Campaigning in City of Salford
I live in the city of Salford and in a town called Swinton. I love Swinton and love my city so why am I writing this blog today ? Because I now believe our city of Salford may now be out of control. In the past few days we have all witnessed a terrible...
Since May 2011 I have worked tirelessly day in, day out, week in, week out for our community, spent hours and hours, hundereds if not thousands of hours campaigning to improve the community where I live and beyond. I have probably delivered around 35,000...
The Community Action Party in Salford wants to significantly increase the number of people in the city that grow their own, have access to fresh fruit and vegetables, significanyl increase the number of allotments, promote selfmanagement schemes and use...
Confusion, Deception or dishonesty ? - You decide ! Since the Mayoral referendum has been triggered in the city of Salford Councillor Merry has been responsible for alleging the costs associated with the referendum have changed 5 times ! Yes not once,...
Over the past few days The Mayoral Alliance which includes independents, English Democrats and The Community Action party have been criticised by the Labour Group and others about our proposals on how council tax can be cut by 50% in Salford saying it...
On the 14th December I attended the mayoral referendum debate on behalf of my party The Community Action Party as part of The Mayoral Alliance. The Mayoral Alliance (Yes team) was challenged and invited to attend a public meeting by Councillor N Owen...
I have been helping and supporting an elderly lady called Sylvia who lives in Swinton. Sylvia came to me for help as I was recommended to her by others. Sylvia was having a terrible time with her home which is rented off City West Housing Trust. The property...
Ever since I first ever became involved in local politics as a local councillor in Preston from 1998 to 2002, I have always supported the concept of a directly-elected mayor system of local government. Whether its a Ken Livingstone or a Boris Johnson...
I will be doing a further blog about the merits of a directly-elected mayor system of local government and why I believe we should vote YES in January 2012. However, I have been reminded in the past few days of how nasty, biased and misleading local media...
I attended todays full council meeting of Salford City Council and what a farce it was ! I attended with Geoffrey Berg the mayoral petitioner who collected over 10,000 signatures to force Salford City Council to hold a mayoral referendum for a directly...
