Tag Archives: Welsh Labour

By Gareth Bromhall Socialist Party members took part in the Swansea Trades Council lobby of the Swansea City Councils budget setting meeting on the 28th February, along side trade unionists from across the city. The council, a labour administration once again waved through tens of millions in cuts to jobs and services in the city, whilst praising themselves for a job well ...

Swansea Trades Council has issued a call to arms to lobby Swansea Council to step back from another £24 million cuts to services. It has called a lobby of the council on Thursday 28th February at 2.00 pm. (The council has brought forward its meeting from the normal 5.00 pm start to 3.00 pm in an apparent attempt to deter ...

A battle is raging inside and outside the Labour Party in Caerphilly county borough (mainly covering Islwyn and Caerphilly constituencies) against the cuts that the Labour-run council is inflicting on public services in the borough. In particular there has been outrage that the meals on wheels service is being effectively abolished while another quarter of a million pounds is being ...

Caerphilly borough council agreed at its meeting on Thursday to set aside even more money to settle the employment of its ex-chief executive including £108,000 in wages to the disgraced boss – even as it plans to cut its Meals On Wheels service to some of its most vulnerable residents saving £160,000. A lively protest by anti-cuts campaigners dressed in ...

By Alec Thraves, Swansea Socialist Party If you want to sneak through £24 million of council cuts next year, call a Cabinet meeting at 10.00 in the morning when most residents are at work, waffle through the ten minutes allowed for public questions and then vote unanimously for the council officers’ latest round of brutal cuts! Within twenty minutes Swansea ...

By Dave Reid Mark Drakeford, a supporter of Jeremy Corbyn, has been elected as leader of Welsh Labour and will be elected as First Minister next week. Of the three candidates for First Minister Mark would be considered the most left wing – he supported Jeremy Corbyn in the first ballot for Labour leader. The other two candidates, Baroness Eluned ...

By Dave Reid Islwyn Constituency Labour Party (CLP) has passed a motion calling on Labour-led Caerphilly Borough Council to pass a no-cuts budget. The motion from Maesycymmer ward calls for “all its serving Caerphilly Councillors to plan for a 2019/20 Council budget that will protect services and employment, not cut them.” The motion was passed shortly after a march of ...

By Ross Saunders The volatility of the political situation is obvious in Wales: by the time this year ends, every political party in the Welsh Assembly will have replaced their leader at least once. Even the Lib Dems – who only have one Assembly member and no MPs – changed their rules in order to put a new face at ...

By Dave Reid In 2003 Rhodri Morgan Welsh Labour First Minister proclaimed that his government was creating “clear red water” between it and Blair’s New Labour government in Westminster. The Welsh Labour brand was launched as a distinct banner from Blairism or ‘British’ Labour. Welsh Labour in government was charting its own course distinct from New Labour. Proponents of the ...

By Dave Reid Hundreds will be rallying in Tredegar in South Wales on July 1st to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the NHS. The march assembles at the house of Aneurin Bevan, founder of the NHS, who based the principles of the NHS on the Tredegar Workmen’s Medical Aid Society. He used his experience in providing cheap ...