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 [...]

What the Tories say they do in Swindon and what they do in Swindon are contradictory. In South Swindon there are 2,667 job seekers, but only 633 job registered vacancies. We need jobs here as we have been told more than once by the Conservatives Swindon is on the up, but where are the jobs? [...]

At a time when property prices are depressed, and there is a surfeit of empty land and commercial properties in Swindon. Eric Pickles Tory Minister and boss of local councils, has prodded Swindon Tories with his unwelcome advice to sell off the the Assets owned by the people of Swindon all bought and paid for [...]

Ellen Osa (Walcot) and Joe Tray (St Philips) captured seats on Thursday for the Labour Party, and many Labour Candidates came close to unseating their Tory or LibDem opponents. Success was also celebrated by Jenny Millin (Mordeon) and Steve Wakefield (Toothill & Westlea) who retained seats which were won by the Conservatives in 2007. Labour [...]

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 [...]

On the day that the Council launched its Social Enterprise and wound up its Homecare Service (risking 64 staff jobs), it announced plans to hire ’top branding expert’ to design the new Social Enterprise logo – a clear example of mistaken Tory priorities.

Steve Wakefield, Councillor for Toothill and victor in May 2011 believes that the Council and public can together make our town a better place to WORK, LIVE and PLAY

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 [...]

Steve says “I’m delighted to have been been selected for Labour in the ward where I have worked with the people for the last 8 years . Government funds to Swindon have been cut by millions and it will hit people in Toothill and Westlea hard over the coming 3 years. I will be contacting [...]