Swindon Borough Council has been accused by Swindon’s Labour Group Leader of letting down the town’s young children after proposing more than £150,000 worth of cuts to Swindon’s children’s centres. These cuts were part of the administration’s budget proposals back in November and will be on top of the £50K cut from Swindon’s Sure Start [...]

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 [...]

Cllr Paul Baker, who retained Penhill for Labour in May 2011, points to just some of the the areas of UNNECESSARY EXPENDITURE  in Swindon Borough Council.

David Cameron has made much of  ’Broken Britain’ and he has attempted  to blame  Labour, pretending that somehow it was the “over funding” of services that were at the root of it. If Labour were the architects of anything it was how to build families back up from the years of deprivation left over from the Thatcher [...]

Youth unemployment hit a record high today – raising worries that Britain’s and Swindon’s young people could become a ”lost generation” who cannot find work despite the fact that the recession ended more than a year ago (thanks to the Labour Government).  The total number of adults under 25 who are out of work moved close [...]

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 [...]

Laura Baker came within 116 votes of defeating Andy Harrison (ex Labour, ex Independent, ex Socialist Workers Party & now Liberal) for the Penhill ward seat.  Laura fought a hard campaign and gained a very respectable 34.2% of the vote in a 4-way contest where the BNP came last with only 162 votes.  Well done [...]

The Lib Dem vote in North Swindon in the 2005 General Election was only 15%.  Given this small base- support they cannot win this seat and I hope their potential supporters will agree with me that a Lib Dem vote here is effectively a Tory vote.  The last thing that Swindon needs is a Tory [...]

Dear Resident I am writing to you to ask you for your support in the forthcoming local elections on May 6th 2010. What Labour Has Done for Penhill Refurbishment & rebuilding Penhill & Sevenfields schoool – paid for with Labour government money Penhill Neighbourhood Police Team & local Police Community Police Support Officers – paid for with Labour [...]

The Tories are spending millions (literally) on their poster campaigns and must be helping the economy doing this. This is a nice picture of Gordon that I spotted at the Moonrakers Roundabout, but it’s a pity that the Conservatives didn’t check the facts before printing it… … the facts are that, if we exclude the [...]