Local Election Day
Today is your chance to vote in the local elections. The polling stations are open 7.00 am to 10.00 pm
The Labour candidate is David Williams
Ring 472 6047 if you need a lift to go to vote
The Stirrer Website
http://www.thestirrer.co.uk/phpBB2/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=168
The above is the address for submissions to the Stirrer Website by David Williams.
Fringe Meeting at Labour Spring Conference
Thanks to everybody who came to the meeting and made it such a success.
Delegates and local party members heard from Kelvin Hopkins MP and Lynne Jones MP. John Cryer, Walter Wolfgang, Ann Black and Pete Willsman also spoke in their capacity as members of the NEC.
Before the meeting, a few of us stood outside the ICC and distributed leaflets publicising the event. We were surrounded by police at one point and asked to give personal details “in case anything happened”. Of course Gordon Brown was in the building, but it did raise issues over freedom of association that made me think.
Then, we had another police intervention at the meeting. Supposedly, the officer was just checking the pub in case a terrorist had hidden himself there.
If you want to find out more about the candidatessupported by the Centre-Left Grassroots Alliance then go to www.clga.org.uk
The main topic at the fringe meeting itself was on the threat posed by the BNP and what Labour needed to do to counter it. Many comrades said that the fault lay with a Labour Government that appeared to regard its own supporters with contempt. Working class people were not any more racist than anybody else – but they still had a raw deal when it came to housing, health and education.
A typical street scene in Selly Oak – To Let Hell
