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Labour Party Conference 2011

Labour Party Conference 2011 The Annual Party Conference is being held in Liverpool this year on the 25-29th Sepember. Our delegate this year is Jim Moody and at a meeting last week the constituency agreed on the following contemprary motion: Riots and Young People Conference notes the rioting and looting spread across London boroughs and English towns and cities in early August 2011, sparked initially by the police shooting of Mark Duggan. Conference expresses its sympathies to all those affected by the riots, and especially to those who lost loved ones or their homes. Conference believes that housing and welfare are rights, not privileges dependent on good behaviour, and condemns those who suggest that those convicted of riot-related offences should lose their homes or benefits. Conference believes this...
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July Newsletter

Just out - the Isle of Wight Labour Party July 2011 Newsletter. Click PDF icon to view....
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Agricultural Wages Board

MPs are currently voting to begin the abolition of the Agricultural Wages Board (AWB) - which over 130,000 workers in Britain rely on. The AWB has protected the wages and rights of agricultural workers for over six decades – including 1040 people in Isle of Wight right now. After over sixty years, the Conservative Party are planning to abolish it. The Labour Party believes that people deserve fair pay and rights at work – and that people who buy their produce deserve to know that it’s been produced in a fair and ethical way. With 1040 agricultural workers in Isle of Wight, your MP should be standing up for them. Click to write your MP and demand that they stand with them...
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Binstead and Fishbourne by-election result

The results of the by-election were Ian Cobb (Conservative) 424 (37%) [519 in 2009 Ivan Bulwer, down 95, 6%] Mick Lyons (Labour) 66 (6%) James Pitcher (Ukip) 93 (8%) Tim Wakeley (LibDem) 139 (12%) [188 in 2009 Tony Zeid, down 49 or 3%] Ivor Warlow (Independent) 428 (37%)...
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By-election news

Mick Lyons,the Labour Party candidate for the Binstead and Fishbourne by-election is featured on Ventnor Blog and on IW Radio Campaign leaflet is here...
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IW Council by-election

The Labour Party will be contesting the Binstead and Fishbourne by-election on June 23rd 2011. Mick Lyons will be standing for Labour along with 4 other candidates. They are: Ian Cobb - Conservative, Tim Wakeley - Liberal Democrat, Daryll Pitcher - UKIP and Ivor Warlow - Independent. More details to follow....
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AMM May

At this month's All Members Meeting a discussion was held on the Government's Health and Social Care Bill. Robert Jones explained some of the implications of this for health services on the Isle of Wight. Meanwhile, this Friday, Dr John Rivers, the new chaiman of the IW GP Commissionong Consortium, said in the County Press that a comprehensive health service would be maintained on the Island. Unfortunately, he then went on to say, "... we don't know exactly what those services will be and who will provide them"....
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March for the Alternative

Along with nearly half a million other people the Isle of Wight Labour Party joined the T.U.C. march for an alternative last Saturday. Leaving from Fishbourne on the 8.00 a.m. ferry, five coaches from the Island arrived, a couple of hours later, at the London Eye. Then we crossed the River Thames to Victoria Embankment and joined the march to Hyde Park. The march was noisy, good humoured and peaceful but with a strong and powerful message. Half a million people called for an alternative to unemployment, redundancies and pay-freezes in the public sector; to closed libraries and Sure Start centres; to a privatised NHS; to 20% VAT and cuts to benefits. Half a million ordinary people called for an alternative to bailouts and banker's bonuses; to enormous rewards for...
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Annual General Meeting

The Isle of Wight Labour Party is holding its annual general meeting this week. It will take place in the Riverside Centre on 31st March 2011 at 7.30p.m. This will be the Island Party's 93rd AGM and all members are welcome to attend. The Agenda will include: officer's reports, Conference arrangements and the election of officers for the coming year....
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Isle of Wight Council Budget

The IW Council decided last week to press ahead with its unprecedented cuts to public services - despite protests and opposition from many people on the of Isle of Wight. At the Council Meeting on the 24th February 2011 the Conservative Council's budget was passed with only 19 councillors voting for it, less than half the Council. Even some Conservatives refused to back their leaders budget. 5 out of the 24 either abstained or did not vote. For the record these, the Councillors who voted to close libraries, tourist information centres, and public toilets, and who voted to cut adult social services, care for the elderly and many the of other services on which the less well off depend, are as follows: The 19 who voted for...
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