Parliamentary constituents making news

 

TheyWorkForYou website record of how our MPs voted on
Free school Meals During School Holidays

Letter to Hereford Times

Daily Mirror reports that a Lancashire shop has banned the local Tory MP after he voted against free school meals, while Yorkshire Live reports that Rishi Sunak and all Tory MPs have been banned from a North Yorkshire pub for the same stance against poor families.(1)(2)

What actions will Hereford Times readers take against Herefordshire MPs Jesse Norman and Bill Wiggin for also helping defeat the extension of free school meals, particularly as Jesse Norman is First Secretary of the Treasury and Bill Wiggin has links with offshore finance?(3)

In 2017, Bill Wiggin responded to "a front page story in the Hereford Times outlining his position as managing director of an offshore financial company by stating that the article was 'not news'."(3)

As the Daily Mirror and YorkshireLive stories emphasise, constituents can help to make the news, whereas my experience of Jesse Norman MP is that he tends to 'note' my views while voting against them, and the top-ups to Bill Wiggin's basic MP salary could pay for several school meals.

Alan Wheatley

Hereford

Notes

1. https://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?p=tory+mp+banned+for+life+free+school+meals&fr=uh3_news_web_gs&fr2=p%3Anews%2Cm%3Asb

2. https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions/pw-2020-10-21-154-commons

3. https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/15711401.mp-bill-wiggin-responds-to-criticism-over-off-shore-interests/

 

Resources for responding to Planning White Paper 'consultation document'

Robert 'Three Homes' Jenrick's Planning White Paper looks clearly designed as a mechanism for ushering in what Prof. Guy Standing calls 'The Privatisation of the Commons' even while this Tory Government's response to the Tory Part being fined by the Electoral Commission is to set about the scrapping of that body.(1)

I believe that in response, we should be more pro-active and concerted in our actions as citizens, by getting better informed and responding en masse to what is designed as a whitewashing exercise by increasingly unrepresentative and over-centralised Big Government in league with global profiteers.

So while this Web Log page may be published on Sunday, 13 September 2020, I shall be adding to it over the course of the 'consultation period' that lasts until 29 October 2020:

The Campaign for Protection of Central England offers a 9 minute online video and the prospect of further assistance to people keen to respond to protect rural England against the further ravages of privatisation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6g6EORy4Rs&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR09ggW0JZPwxr_Y-ogKngSalm8ajT3rZTDsjVi_LPp96rLcM8xLQzHK9rY


Meanwhile, Martin Francis of the Wembley Matters blog publishes model responses produced by Paul Burnham of Haringey Defend Council Housing.
https://wembleymatters.blogspot.com/2020/09/ideas-on-responding-to-governments.html

The Planning White Paper has also been criticised for its disregard of disabled people's accessible housing requirements.
https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/?s=planning+white+paper+accessible+housing


I look forward to publishing more related resources on this page.

Alan Wheatley





Footnotes

1: That is yet another 'public consultation' as the Electoral Reform Society points out

Our elections watchdog needs strengthening, not scrapping

but whereas the Tory Government says that the Electoral Commission "is answerable to no-one," Private Eye, 11-24 September 2020, p7 points out that a likely cue for that 'consultation' was Electoral Commission fining the Tory Party for breaching General Election spending limits.