Day: 1 December 2015

Shaping Labours manifesto in London

Posted: 1^st December 2015

The bullet points below are a draft list of issues to be supplied to the London Policy Forum meeting set for December 5th in London.

Housing and Planning

Cap private sector rents.
Introduce a London living rent.
Increase council tax bands on high value individual properties.
Remove right to buy discount in all areas of housing.
Bring…

School-based support staff petition

Posted: 1^st December 2015

I’ve just signed the petition “Every school-based support staff deserves 52 weeks pay and to be given the recognition that they deserve. Pay your school-based support staff/teaching assistants – they don’t get paid enough” and wanted to see if you could help by adding your name.

Our goal is to reach 35,000 signatures and we need more support.…