Mione Goldspink's article for the flyer, July 2019
Local Matters with Mione Goldspink July 2019
MG
26 Jul 2019
Local Matters with Mione Goldspink July 2019
Local Matters with Mione Goldspink June 2019
Thank you for all you did for our recent Local Election campaign. Whether you delivered letters, wrote a cheque or simply voted for us - thank you.
According to the Hertfordshire Police, knife crimes have more than tripled across the county since 2014 . Despite knife amnesties and other local initiatives, the trend is remorselessly upwards and Hertfordshire towns are becoming as unsafe as Britain's inner cities. Tragically, over 1,000 young people ( age 10-19) were admitted to UK hospitals with knife injuries last year and 10 teenagers have been killed in just the first two months of 2019.
Your BroxLibDems have been busy listening to your views around Goffs Oak recently and have talked to parents anxious about the imminent transfer of their local community primary school from the local authority to corporate control ( The Academisation process beloved of Mr Gove). Amongst other things, they are very concerned that they and teachers will be frozen out by the new management. Please will you help them by signing their petition against this by clicking the link below:
December 2018 marked 100 years since women first voted in the 1918 General Election. Even then, only women aged over 30 could vote (40% of the electorate) as an electorate evenly divided between men and women was politically unacceptable! Women had to wait another 10 years before Electoral Equality was finally achieved in 1928.
The Conservative-controlled Hertfordshire County Council Educational Psychologist team has fewer than half the required Psychologists.