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The next election is our chance to change Crawley and the UK for the better. As Labour’s candidate for Crawley, I want to ensure that if I am elected, the work that I do in Parliament represents the views of residents across Crawley. To help me to better understand other residents’ priorities for the town,Continue…
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RunGatwick, returns to Crawley today (apologies for any road closures in advance), giving local residents the chance to do a 10k in their home town. I always feel a certain amount of joy when it’s taking place, having played a role in bringing the event to Crawley. I can’t claim that it was my idea,Continue…
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Tomorrow marks the start of National Mills Weekend, a weekend for celebrating windmills and watermills across the UK. While rare now, the essential role which mills played in the processing of flour necessary in order for people to produce bread, our staple food, means that they must once have been plentiful. Certainly the number whichContinue…
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14 years of Conservative Government has seen economic stagnation. Right now, the UK is in the midst of its longest unbroken run of falling GDP per capita–the monetary value of goods produced per person–since records began in 1955. The end result is that, due to the policies of our Government, British workers are now £10,000Continue…
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At the Budget Jeremy Hunt, Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced his desire to abolish National Insurance. Given that National Insurance was set-up in order to fund the NHS and the other parts of the social safety net created by the post-war Labour Government, and that to this day it’s the only part of the Government’sContinue…
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Labour has accused the Tories of systematically failing the health and prospects of Britain’s youth, as new analysis shows an average of 6,000 more young people a month being not in employment, education or training (NEET). The number of young people who are out of work for ill health has hit 29,700 in the SouthContinue…
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If you are looking for something to do with your bank holiday, you could do far worse than taking a trip down to the Ifield Conservation Area around The Plough to visit the May Fayre. First run in 1987, the May Fayre capitalises upon the attractive historical quality of the Ifield Village, the fantastic communityContinue…
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Labour’s Parliamentary Candidates for Chichester, Crawley, East Grinstead and Uckfield, East Worthing and Shoreham, Mid Sussex and Worthing West have joined together to launch a petition aimed at forcing improvements to road maintenance across the county. With data from Freedom of Information requests revealing that West Sussex now has the third worst record for potholeContinue…
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Peter Lamb, Labour candidate for Crawley, has written to Rishi Sunak to ask if Crawley’s 15,760 pensioners will be made to pay for the cost of his unfunded £46bn tax plan. The letter comes just 18 months after the Conservatives’ disastrous mini-budget crashed the British economy with £45bn worth of unfunded tax cuts. The letterContinue…
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Polling stations are now open and after months of campaigning, voters finally have the chance to go to the polls. Of course, the increasing popularity of postal votes means that much of the population will actually have already cast their vote before today (if you haven’t posted it back yet, scroll down to find outContinue…
Peter Lamb for Crawley 