UPDATE: TREC posted this article “We Stood Our Ground” which includes powerful videos of some of the speakers at the protest. Around 100 people protested outside the Labour Group meeting in Leicester today against the threatened withdrawal of funding for the Leicester Race Equality Centre (TREC). Speakers at the rally made the point that TREC […]
There is no need to cut public services! Funding should be increased for the provision of public services, not decreased. Contrary to misinformation, our Labour-run council has plenty of reserves, which instead of being used to pay employees’ redundancy payments, could be used to keep services open while it fought the Tory cuts. The Council […]
The oil wells are running dry, Companies are going fracking- Water pollution, risks to health, Earthquakes they are a-cracking. Billions spent on holy grail Of laser-powered fusion. To recreate the Sun on Earth, So expensive the delusion! Nuclear’s the way to go, All we need is fission. Handy for bombs as well, Absurd, deluded mission. […]
The Daily Telegraph predicted that 2014 will be another profitable year for homeowners, suggesting that “the spring could be a great time to go for that investment-cum-country-house you have had your eye on.” What a luxury for a privileged few, to be able to snap up another property, sit back and watch the value soar! […]
The following article was published in the Leicester Mercury on April 22, 2014. In 2011, Leicester elected an executive mayor. Today, this one person has more power over council services than all of the 54 equally democratically elected councillors. The previous system, where the councillors elected their own leadership and had more power to make […]
It is obvious to many that the Labour Party are no longer willing or capable of presenting any answers for the working-class. In Labour-run Council’s where their own councillors have the temerity to stand by their electorate and refuse to accept the inevitability of Con-Dem cuts such councillors are simply ejected (see “Don’t vote for […]
Across England and Wales the Green Party can boast of having 139 local councillors and they are in the favourable position of also being the biggest party on Brighton and Hove City Council. In the latter case, this means that we have the perfect case study to demonstrate what the Green’s will do when at […]
According the Leicester Mercury, Tory peer Simon Wolfson, who is the chief executive of the Enderby-based retail giant Next, is happy for two reasons. The first owes to the fact that Eleanor, his new wife (of 2012) — who happens to be George Osborne’s economic adviser — has recently given birth to the couple’s first heir […]
Leicester Race Equality Centre (TREC) has represented the people of Leicester for the last 50 years, giving advice and support to an estimated 150,000 people during that time. Leicester is one of the few cities left in the UK with a Race Equality Centre and the city has been touted by the council, with their […]
By Ian Reynolds The National Association of Probation Officers (Napo) and the London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association called a two-day strike from the 31st March. This is the second time both groups have taken industrial action within six months — but the first time action has been coordinated — to oppose the cuts and privatisation […]
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