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I honestly can’t remember if I signed-up to their mailing list or if they just email every councillor, but once a month I get an email from ASDA analysing changes in household incomes and expenditure. For all the times politicians have been caught-out by being asked the price of a pint of milk, knowing it…
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Democracy is about more than just voting for your representatives. For democracy to be effective you need a whole infrastructure around it, including clear rules around how the system operates, mechanisms for accountability, and for voters to have access to the information they need to decide how to use their vote. The information voters need…
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This week marks the official start of the 2023 Local Elections. We are used to having a local election every year in Crawley, with a third of the borough council up for election in each of the first three years of the cycle and the county council elected in the fourth year. Yet, councils are…
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Crawley stands to benefit from Labour’s Ready for Work, Ready for Life campaign, delivering an education system that is fit for the future and equips young people, adults and our economy with the skills essential for success. Almost half of young people in Crawley are leaving education without the level 3 (A-level or BTEC equivalent)…
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New figures, published by Crawley Labour reveal knife crime is up 82% across the South East since 2015. The figures come as Keir Starmer made making Britain’s Streets Safe one of his 5 Missions for a Better Britain. Robbery is up 42% over the same period whilst the number of PCSOs on local streets have…
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New analysis by Crawley Labour reveals there are now 14,365 pupils in classrooms of more than 30 in West Sussex, with the figures including schools in Crawley. Data from the Department for Education (DfE) reveals that 932,776 school pupils are now in super-sized classrooms, an increase of 185,245 since 2010. The number of school pupils…
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By mid-afternoon today we will know who will be contesting Crawley for Labour at the next General Election. With Crawley’s boundaries set to remain the same regardless of the outcome of the current boundary review, the only question which remains is whether our current MP will seek re-election in the town or if he will…
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New analysis from Crawley Labour reveals a staggering 5,961 families are now in fuel poverty. The average fuel poverty gap – the reduction in fuel costs needed for a household to not be in fuel poverty – across the region is 8.6%. The news comes as Labour calls on the Chancellor to bring in a…
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Today marks three years since the start of the first lockdown. Even after all this time, it still feels hard to process quite what we all went through together. Perhaps, the fact that there was never a clear ending, that waves of infection are continuing to circle the globe, and that we will never be…
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New analysis from Crawley Labour following the budget – building on research from the Resolution Foundation – reveals the staggering tax burden facing families in Crawley. Taxes are set to hit a 70 year high – up to almost 38% of GDP by 2027/28. Each household faces paying an additional £4,200 in tax. Across Crawley…
Peter Lamb for Crawley 