Remember that Labour will: Support jobs with money raised from repeating the bank bonus tax – not hold back recovery with the VAT rise and cuts that will put almost one million workers out of their jobs. Protect police numbers – not cut them while wasting £100 million on new elected police commissioners. Protect your [...]

Mark Viner, Labour’s candidate for Abbey Meads in May 2011, stresses the need to train Swindon’s youth for the JOBS OF THE FUTURE.

I am delighted to been selected by Abbey Meads Labour Party to stand in the local elections on the 5th May. I live in Oakhurst and work locally in Swindon. As  someone just starting a family I understand the worries of what the future is going to bring.

In the South-west almost 22% of the employed population are working in the public sector. That is why the announcement Government’s  that 410,000 public-sector jobs will go by 2015/16 is shocking. However the Chartered Institute Of Personnel and Development have estimated that 1.6 million jobs will go.  In the public sector they believe that there [...]

For almost the last 30 years there has been a shortage of housing in fact lets not be PC about this there has been an abject failure to build houses at the rate required to match national and local need.  Housing experts and economists will tell you that housing supply is an “inelastic demand” put [...]

Directly elected police and crime commissioners are getting a step closer as the government set out its stall. There is much political wrangling over this.  What I want to see is that only people of good character are able to stand for these positions.  They should have passed suitable checks expected of anyone in public [...]

Ollie Haydon Mulligan, Regional Organiser for the Labour Party helped to relaunch the Haydon Wick Branch in the Haydon Centre on the 22nd September.  The Branch covers not only Haydon Wick but Abbey Meads, Ash Brake,  Redhouse,  Oakhurst,  Priory Vale, St Andrews Ridge,  and Taw Hill.  Ollie talked about the challenges facing Labour in opposition, fighting for [...]

Local residents are being invited to give their views on what their council will look like as the independent Local Government Boundary Commission for England begins an electoral review of Swindon Borough Council today(20th July 2010). The review will consider changes to the number of councillors on the council as well as the number and [...]

Asif lives in Abbey Meads and is a lawyer.  If you have any questions or want to lend a hand in the local or national campaigns please email victor4nswindon@googlemail.com or swindonlabour@gmail.com

“I am pleased that North Swindon’s Labour Party members have selected Victor as their candidate.  Swindon needs a Labour MP to protect residents against the Tory Council’s cuts in services and I know that Victor will  be a hard-working and tireless campaigner for people in North Swindon.  I look forward to working with him in [...]