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Speaking with residents over recent weeks and months, I’ve heard the fear and uncertainty grow as it has become increasingly clear the Government is either unwilling or unable to deliver the things which will ensure our common security and prosperity. Locally, we can’t promise to fix all the problems MPs have failed to resolve, but…
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April is a month of many festivals, from those with wide public awareness in the UK, such as Christianity’s Easter and Judaism’s Passover, to Sikh Vaisakhi and Hindu New Year. Whether you’re celebrating a religious festival or just enjoying the bank holidays, I offer my best wishes. For councillors, this time of year is far…
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I was very glad to be able to welcome John Healey MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Housing, today to Crawley as he announced a major new change in housing policy, on an issue increasingly affecting our community:
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It’s only fair, if you work hard and behave decently, you should be able to earn enough to look after your family. Unfortunately, that’s no longer the way it works in the UK. I wrote last week about the rise in working poverty and how more children than ever before are facing poverty in our…
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In 1980s, Ronald Reagan asked in one of the US Presidential Debates: ‘Are you better off than you were four years ago’? In that one question he summed up for the American public the decision they had to make when they went to the polls and for voters the decision was clear: Reagan replaced Carter…
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Crawley Council Leader, Peter Lamb, has joined with over a thousand English councillors in demanding the Government act now to end the funding crisis hitting local schools. The campaign, launched by the NEU’s Councillors Network and supported by education fair funding campaign group f40, expresses concern over the desperate state of school funding. The letter…
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Every weekend, year round, I spend at least a few hours going door-to-door asking residents if there are any problems in their area or if there’s anything they’d like to raise with me. Most of the time I find this quite fun; it’s a good way of keeping up with neighbourhood issues and you can…
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New figures reveal a crisis of public computers cuts across the South East. 624 computers have been lost from libraries in the South East since 2010, and 57 Job Centre computers have been cut in Southern England since 2014. This is a digital exclusion double-whammy that punishes the poorest in our society, especially as Universal…
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Crawley Borough Council’s Cabinet has agreed to implement measures to improve social mobility across the borough. The recommendations were agreed after the Government’s Social Mobility Commission highlighted the borough as one of the poorest local authority areas in the country for social mobility in their 2017 report. Ranging from the development of social housing to…
Peter Lamb for Crawley 