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If you want to find out how your
councillors can stand up for you in your local area
there are 5 easy ways to get in touch
...1. Phone...
Your councillors' phone numbers are listed below.
...2. Email...
Your councillors' email addresses are listed below.
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Write to your councillor at Southwark Town Hall, Peckham Road, SE5 8UB.
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 Cllr McGovern's open letter in support of Camberwell baths |
On 20th October Southwark’s Lib Dem/Tory executive will decide the fate of Camberwell leisure centre. Cllr Alison McGovern, Southwark Labour’s culture leisure and sport spokeswoman, here writes an open letter to her opposite number in the executive, Cllr Lewis Robinson, to ask for the full refurbishment of the baths on behalf of the Labour councillors. Dear Cllr Robinson, I am writing to you because later this month you will, with the rest of Southwark Council’s Lib Dem/Tory ...
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| Labour victory as Lib Dems make violent crime strategy u-turn after
2 year-long campaign |
After two years of campaigning by Labour, Southwark’s ruling Lib Dem/Tory coalition has finally agreed to put party politics aside and cooperate with Labour councillors to write a new violent crime strategy for the borough. In that time Southwark has become the most violent crime-ridden borough in London and the ninth most dangerous area to live in the country. The move marks a key departure from the Lib Dem/Tory executive’s policy as they have insisted that a strategic approach ...
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| Southwark Council wastes millions on hundreds of long-term ‘temps’ |
Lib Dem/Tory-run Southwark Council is wasting millions of pounds a year on hundreds of agency staff that have been working at the council for longer than six months and haven’t been offered a contract, a Southwark Labour Freedom of Information request reveals. In total 416 members of council staff, 7% of the council’s employees, are agency staff who have been on placement with the council for longer than six months. 103 have been at the council for more than 2 years. The FOI request a...
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| Southwark’s Lib Dem/Tory executive split by George Osborne’s
anti-local plans |
The Liberal Democrat and Conservative coalition that has run Southwark since 2006 has been split this week by George Osborne, the Tory Shadow Chancellor’s, plans to take the power to decide council tax levels away from local councils. In a survey conducted by the Evening Standard, the Liberal Democrats of the coalition are quoted as opposing the plans which would take power away from local representatives, while the Conservatives’ position isn’t made clear. The plans are opposed by ...
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| Kath Whittam selected as candidate for Rotherhithe |
Labour have selected community campaigner Kath Whittam to fight the forthcoming Rotherhithe by-election. Kath has lived in Rotherhithe for over 20 years and is the manager of the Surrey Docks Farm. Active within the Rotherhithe community since she moved to the area, Kath was a teacher at a local school before having her own children, who now attend a Rotherhithe primary school. "I have always stood up for Rotherhithe and would be honoured to follow in the footsteps of...
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If you want to find out how your
councillors can stand up for you in your local area
there are 5 easy ways to get in touch
...1. Phone...
Your councillors' phone numbers are listed below.
...2. Email...
Your councillors' email addresses are listed below.
...3. Post...
Write to your councillor at Southwark Town Hall, Peckham Road, SE5 8UB.
...4. Go to a surgery...
Surgery times are listed below.
...5. This website - use the message f...
On 20th October Southwark’s Lib Dem/Tory executive will decide the fate of Camberwell leisure centre. Cllr Alison McGovern, Southwark Labour’s culture leisure and sport spokeswoman, here writes an open letter to her opposite number in the executive, Cllr Lewis Robinson, to ask for the full refurbishment of the baths on behalf of the Labour councillors. Dear Cllr Robinson, I am writing to you because later this month you will, with the rest of Southwark Council’s Lib Dem/Tory ...
After two years of campaigning by Labour, Southwark’s ruling Lib Dem/Tory coalition has finally agreed to put party politics aside and cooperate with Labour councillors to write a new violent crime strategy for the borough. In that time Southwark has become the most violent crime-ridden borough in London and the ninth most dangerous area to live in the country. The move marks a key departure from the Lib Dem/Tory executive’s policy as they have insisted that a strategic approach ...
Lib Dem/Tory-run Southwark Council is wasting millions of pounds a year on hundreds of agency staff that have been working at the council for longer than six months and haven’t been offered a contract, a Southwark Labour Freedom of Information request reveals. In total 416 members of council staff, 7% of the council’s employees, are agency staff who have been on placement with the council for longer than six months. 103 have been at the council for more than 2 years. The FOI request a...
The Liberal Democrat and Conservative coalition that has run Southwark since 2006 has been split this week by George Osborne, the Tory Shadow Chancellor’s, plans to take the power to decide council tax levels away from local councils. In a survey conducted by the Evening Standard, the Liberal Democrats of the coalition are quoted as opposing the plans which would take power away from local representatives, while the Conservatives’ position isn’t made clear. The plans are opposed by ...
Labour have selected community campaigner Kath Whittam to fight the forthcoming Rotherhithe by-election. Kath has lived in Rotherhithe for over 20 years and is the manager of the Surrey Docks Farm. Active within the Rotherhithe community since she moved to the area, Kath was a teacher at a local school before having her own children, who now attend a Rotherhithe primary school. "I have always stood up for Rotherhithe and would be honoured to follow in the footsteps of...