While some of Leicester’s 51 Labour Council candidates publicly back Jeremy Corbyn and say that if given the opportunity would vote to oppose cuts, the vast majority refuse to do so. Little wonder, then, that when Unison City Branch officially put to them a fighting strategy to stop the cuts in 2017, at that stage […]
Steve Score, Socialist Party candidate in the city mayoral elections has pledged to only live on the wage of an average Leicester worker if elected. The city mayor takes home over £70,000 at the moment. The current basic allowance for every council member is £10,556 and the city mayor has a ‘special responsibility allowance’ on […]
On Wednesday February 20, Leicester’s Labour City Council once again voted through a series of further massive cuts to local spending. In opposition to this appalling behaviour, the Leicester Socialist Party helped organise a lobby of the budget-setting meeting, where we called upon our Labour Council to launch a fight back against all cuts. For […]
With the Tories intent on destroying local government, Blairite-run Councils up-and-down the country just wring their hands and claim that there is nothing they can do except carry through devastating cuts. Yet many lay members of the Labour Party disagree with this spineless non-response to austerity, and in recent months two Constituency Labour Party’s (Islwyn […]
Like Newham’s mayor Sir Robin Wales, Leicester has its very own Blairite mayor – Sir Peter Soulsby. And like Newham council, Leicester is dominated by the Labour Party – with 52 out of 54 councillors. Since becoming Leicester’s mayor in 2011, Soulsby has been busy cutting services and attacking the pay and conditions of workers. […]
With the Tories stumbling in the wake of Theresa’s Mayhem, Labour-run Councils now have yet another opportunity to organise a campaign of mass resistance to further Tory cuts to local services. But it seems that the leaders of many such Councils are deliberately blocking attempts to resist austerity. This week Leicester’s Labour-run City Council announced, […]
The Government has been determined over the last five years to deregulate Sunday trading, today was their fourth attempt and this time they have dressed it up as devolution. Thankfully the Tories plans failed with the parliamentary vote not going their way earlier today. So far Leicester’s three Labour MPs have been vocal in their […]
Earlier tonight a lobby was held outside of Leicester City Council’s annual budget setting meeting. The fifty-strong protest was supported by various trade unionists and anti-cuts campaigners from across the city. With the Labour Party dominating Leicester’s politics, the protestors were asking Labour councillors to oppose City Mayor Sir Peter Soulsby’s plans to carry through […]
Taxi drivers in Leicester are organised – in the RMT – and furious at the dictatorial attitude of the Labour city mayor. They have already held a number of protests and ‘go slows’ that have gridlocked the city centre during rush hours. At a protest meeting on 4 February 100 taxi drivers and supporters met […]
Members of unions Unite, Unison, PCS and RMT watched from the gallery on 25 February as Leicester City Council voted on its annual budget. Since 2011 over £85 million has been cut from local services in Leicester. Mayor Sir Peter Soulsby’s latest cuts budget was passed by the overwhelmingly Labour council. The city council’s Unison branch has publicly […]
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