Month: June 2015
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I agree with Cameron, Osborne and IDS – we need to cut welfare spending
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The British taxpayer is shelling out billions in welfare payments. We’re supporting businesses through handing their underpaid staff in-work benefits such as tax credits. We’re supporting private landlords through housing benefits. We’re supporting fossil fuel and nuclear energy companies through tax breaks. […]
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Email to Eleanor Laing: Reduce voting age to 16 for European Union Referendum
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Our MPs will soon vote on whether or not to allow 16 and 17 year olds to participate in the European Union membership referendum. Email sent via writetothem.com.
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Email to Eastern MEPs: Please vote against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (#TTIP)
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(Email sent via writetothem.com) Please vote against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) Dear David Campbell Bannerman, Patrick O’Flynn, Tim Aker, Richard Howitt, Geoffrey Van Orden, Vicky Ford and Stuart Agnew, I am writing to ask you to vote against the […]
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Video: Caroline Lucas’ anti-austerity speech in Parliament, 03/06/2015
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This is a link to video of Caroline Lucas MP’s anti-austerity speech in the House of Commons on Wednesday 3rd June 2015. The Hansard transcript is on the They Work For You site here: http://v.gd/dpgwa_cl030615 Video: Caroline Lucas speech (Unfortunately I can’t embed video […]
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News from Waltham Abbey Greens – issues raised at our Street Surgeries
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Now that all of that election malarkey is a month behind us we can get on with trying to make a difference in Waltham Abbey. Things are going to be difficult – the Coalition government imposed massive cuts on local authority funding […]