You only need to take a trip to the Town Centre to see that Swindon is in urgent need of regeneration. The Tory Council has failed to regenerate the Town Centre.  They have had 8 years in power in Swindon and yet our Town Centre is still scarred by wasteland, derelict buildings, and eyesores.  The [...]

Councillor Jenny Millin died earlier this week. Councillor Millin had been the councillor for the Moredon Ward since November 2010. She won her seat through a by-election. The Leader of the Labour Group, Councillor Jim Grant, said: “It is with great sadness that we have to announce the death of Councillor Jenny Millin. Our thoughts [...]

Last week the Swindon Advertiser covered a public meeting where an estimated 150 Old Town residents attended an open meeting to discuss how to fight Swindon’s Conservative Councillors against their decision to propose a school on the Croft site and the granting of planning permission for the school to be sited at Croft. I  have [...]

Rachel Reeves, Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, talked to Swindon Labour Party members in Broadgreen last night following an afternoon meeting with representatives of business and local Councillors. Rachel emphasised how important Swindon was for the economy – and how much she was looking forward to Labour retaking the Council in May 2012, and the [...]

The Labour Group Leader, Councillor Jim Grant, has called for a halt to the Croft Development until local residents’ concerns about the process of the school being granted have been heard. The Labour Group Leader has also written to the Leader of the Council, Councillor Rod Bluh, requesting that he join him in meeting leaders [...]

Anyone who has looked at the budget proposals by the current “caring” council can’t fail to notice that it hits  the education, and I would suggest the welfare, of the most vulnerable children in Swindon. Eight out of the twenty proposals listed on the budget proposal web page of Swindon Borough Council are educationally based [...]

Mass unemployment destroys the social morale of communities and forcing young people who have completed their training for work to remain idle is Tory politics of the vilest nature. It leads to disillusionment and rings true of Thatcher’s “laissez faire” leave it to the market approach. In Swindon young people need know that Tory policies [...]

On Tuesday 3rd January 2012 sometime after 09.00 I received the following information about the housing ballot result: 72.3 per cent voted against 27.7 per cent in favour. The turnout was 65.6 per cent, which compares well with votes in other similar-sized authorities. The information contained within those 3 short lines, hides a long and [...]

The latest unemployment figures show that both in Swindon and nationally, the Tories economic strategy is hurting but not working.  Unemployment has soared to 2.64 million, the highest levels since 1994.  And youth unemployment is at its highest level since records began.  The Tories are presiding over the economic decline of Swindon.  Under the Tories [...]

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 [...]