The Government wants every school in England to become an academy by 2022. Is this a good thing? Well read the arguments here and decide for yourselves whether you want an undemocratic school system funded [&he...
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BLOG: Government proposes to make all schools into academies. Labour opposes in the strongest possible terms.
Monday, 28 March 2016
BLOG: LABOUR COUNCILLORS ATTACK COUNCIL PLANS TO SHUT SEARCHLIGHT
Tuesday, 22 December 2015
Following the disastrous way the Liberal Democrat administration ran schools and services for young people, a new community interest company was formed with Richmond called Achieving for Children (AFC). AfC was contracted by Kingston and [&he...
BLOG: Bombing Syria: the Kingston & Surbiton View
Friday, 11 December 2015
Kingston & Surbiton members discussed the bombing of Syria at its December all member meeting. Unsurprisingly there were a variety of views put forward, informed by some very knowledgeable people with very direct experience of [&he...
BLOG: Trade Union Bill
Monday, 26 October 2015
The Tory government’s Trade Union Bill is an attempt to put even more restrictions on trade unions. The Tories seem to believe (or they want the public to believe) that trade unions are just about [&he...
BLOG: Community Housing Trust in Kingston hits the ropes thanks to Tory Housing Bill
Friday, 16 October 2015
Should Labour support a Community Housing Trust in Kingston? This was the difficult decision facing Labour in Kingston. The massive decade late refurbishment of council housing initiated by the Liberal Democrats was poor value for [&he...
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