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Tomorrow, Crawley’s four Labour branches (North, South, East, and West) will be meeting to nominate who they want to represent the party at the next General Election. While the actual selection meeting won’t be taking place until the 25th March, these nominations are important, because they help decide who is on the shortlist members get…
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The rate of over-50s on unemployment benefits in Crawley has grown by 40.7% between the start of the pandemic and the beginning of this year. New analysis shows that, nationally, there are now 364,175 over-50s on unemployment benefits and looking for work, marking a huge change in older worker unemployment since before the pandemic. In…
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New figures, based on a Freedom of Information request, reveal the staggering waits facing people at Crawley’s nearest A&E, with some 14% of patients waited more than 12 hours – the target is for 95% of patients to be seen within four hours. Across the country in November more than 150,000 people waited more than…
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A few weeks back, I was sent a link to this blog in a WhatsApp group of my old school friends in which Mr Henry Smith, Crawley’s voice in the House of Commons, asked Parliamentary questions relating to the importing and exporting of reindeer, the consequence of which being that we now know that the…
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Even the title of the day may sounds a little boring, but the reality is that school governors are vital to keeping our education system running and there aren’t currently enough of them. Despite our country being one of the most centralised in the world, most public services in the UK have lay positions for…
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As frequent readers have no doubt noticed, I’m generally inspired to write by current affairs taking place in Crawley or nationally, new data releases and what the figures suggest about our town, or key festivals and other scheduled events. One such event kicks off today, which is what I’d like to write about today: National…
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Research from the Resolution Foundation, reveals the staggering impact of the cost of living crisis to the local economy, with Crawley facing a combined £96m real-terms cut in our incomes. Families are set to be £2,100 worse off at the end of two years of soaring inflation and falling wages – a period the independent…
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As part of a series of releases analysing the data coming out of the 2021 Census, this week the House of Commons Library has published a breakdown of central heating data by constituency. As a whole, we do rely more on gas than the regional or UK average. This difference is largely due to the…
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It’s hard to believe that a year has now passed since Russian tanks crossed the border and began their approach on Kyiv. Whatever people may say now, I suspect that very few of us believed that Ukraine had a chance against a country of Russia’s size and military might, let alone that a year on…
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As the football white paper is published this week, Labour is calling on the Government to bring in a regulator as quickly as possible. While the publication of the white paper is welcome, it is already long overdue. In the 15 months it’s taken the Government to re-word the fan-led review, Derby County nearly went…
