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Crawley Borough Council is warning residents to be scam aware following a rise in reports of conmen knocking on doors. The council has recently received reports of two different scams, where residents are asked to pay thousands of pounds up front for work that isn’t needed or shouldn’t cost anywhere near that amount. In the…
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When the Government announced the furlough scheme in March, I expressed my support for it on Twitter. To this day it remains my most commented upon tweet, with over 1,400 people calling me a traitor. Yet, it was clear to me at the time the main employment sectors in Crawley could not survive under the…
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This Saturday marks the 75th Anniversary of Victory in Japan and the final end of WWII. Unfortunately, much as with VE Day earlier in the year, the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic means we can’t mark the date publicly in the way it deserves, but that does not stop us remembering it. It all-too-often feels as though…
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Since March, the UK has been subject to greater limitations on personal liberty than at any other peacetime period in modern times. I’m not in any way criticising the imposition of these restrictions–if anything the UK’s relaxed approach to COVID-19 compared to other countries explains why our country has performed so badly in getting the…
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Back when I was new to the Labour Party, I remember wondering why people spent so much time at party meetings discussing ‘planning’ when most of us had joined to support public services, tackle poverty, and fight inequalities. What I didn’t know then was how much planning shapes all of these things, along with every…
