Thornbury and Yate Labour Party

Thornbury and Yate Constituency Labour Party

BUDGET RESPONSE

BUDGET RESPONSE

Wednesday 3 March saw a Conservative Chancellor struggle to do the right thing at the wrong time. It is great news to see essential measures such as the extension of furlough, self-employment support and the £20/week increase in Universal Credit extended until...
GOVERNMENT BY SHAME

GOVERNMENT BY SHAME

Event. Outrage. Silence. Inadequate response. Outrage. Outrage. U-Turn. We have all grown accustomed to this Government’s shambling amateurism, whereby they try to ignore a problem, and then get shamed into action by an unavoidable sense of national outrage. We have...
Deeper than Brexit

Deeper than Brexit

Deeper than Brexit Sure, everyone expected the first weeks of Brexit to be a fiasco. What isn’t these days? But I don’t think anyone expected the initial victims to be fishermen (after all the commotion about fish!), Percy Pig and musicians. The disaster around food...
Central Government can and should do better

Central Government can and should do better

I received a letter today from an individual with additional health needs in Thornbury, who had written to their Council and MP first, but felt understandable dissatisfied by their inaction. He wanted advice about how the pandemic restrictions affected someone in his...