Mione Goldspink's article for the flyer, July 2019
Local Matters with Mione Goldspink July 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.
Millions of people are still trapped in England’s broken leasehold system. Our plan will end the leasehold rip-off, strengthen building safety, and give residents the control, fairness, and dignity they deserve in their own homes.
Hong Kongers living in the UK, and across the world, face an increasingly robust and alarming campaign of transnational repression from Beijing. Our new policy will protect pro-democracy activists and ensure this intimidation has no place in the UK.
Over the past year, thousands of members, councillors, parliamentarians, activists, and experts have fed into our Policy Review - helping shape a hopeful, forward-looking vision for the country we want to build.