First hour news review: with LibDem councillor for Henbury and Whitchurch Park Tim Kent, Green party leader Eleanor Combley and Avonmouth environmental campaigner Ian Robinson. Local elections: Lib Dems and Greens did well; Tories did very badly - Brexit fiasco; Darren Hughes from Electoral Reform Society Papers please: How the government is making it harder to vote in the local elections â problems with mandatory ID, influences of the internet, proportional representation, EU election system; results of the local elections. UKIP launch for EU elections â party becoming more chaotic and to the far right - âIslam is a death cultâ and jokes about rape. Bristol election for Mayor next year: the different candidates; Affirmative Ballots to chose Marvin; EXCLUSIVE: Marvinâs pledge for Mayor where he claims to have saved the libraries and council tax reduction scheme LEAKED (see above). Tim Kent details public money Marvin Rees has wasted on various projects: £50m made up of -> £37m on Bristol Energy £12m on Arena site £1m/yr on the Mayors Office, £100k Chief Exec. Anna Klonowski payoff,  £200k Chief Exec. Nicola Yates payoff - Homeless living in Bristol Bearpit containers: âMeet the Mayorâ Facebook chat question from Henry Palmer about the Bearpit; central government causing homelessness. Sacking of Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson allegedly over Huawei leak Gavin Williamson insists Theresa May has got the wrong person after being sacked over Huawei leak â but is there any evidence he did it or was this sacking just so Theresa May looks like she has some authority? US against UK using Huawei. Service in Westminster Abbey thanksgiving for nuclear weapons bringing peace. A statement which calls on the Dean of Westminster Abbey to âurgently reconsiderâ a planned National Service of Thanksgiving for Britainâs nuclear weapons system has been signed by 194 Anglican clerics.
EXCLUSIVE: Bristol mayor. Leaked Labour party 2020 re-selection statement where Marvin Rees claims to have saved the libraries and council tax reduction scheme he tried to close and abolish2019 mayor election, affirmative ballot: why Marvin Rees should be reselectedApril 2019 - As your Labour Mayor, I am proud to have led an administration bringing our values to City Hall. We have prioritised frontline council services so despite massive Tory cuts we are proud to have secured the future of all of Bristolâs libraries; building affordable housing; making the Council a real Living Wage employer and winning new jobs, bringing Channel 4 to Bristol. Working with communities and local Labour councillors, we are delivering for Bristol as our leafletâs map shows so clearly: www.labourbristol.co.uk/map Jeremy Corbyn has recently praised our Labour council as we are genuinely delivering municipal socialism. We have fully funded our £40 million Council Tax Reduction Scheme â the last in the core cities â to support Bristolâs 25,000 poorest families, scrapped the former Mayorâs discount for second homes, introduced a 300% empty properties premium, and established an exemption for care leavers.My administration has put housing at the very top of our political agenda. Our ambitious target to build 2,000 new homes â including 800 new affordable homes â will be delivered and exceeded. This is thanks to our new council-owned housing company, which will quicken development and invest profits into building social housing. We are also innovating with modular homes, including for young people at risk of homelessness, and held a Housing Festival to showcase new solutions. We are already completing new social housing and have opened the cityâs first 24/7 homeless shelter, demonstrating our commitment to tackle the housing crisis and increase housing stock to meet ever-increasing demand.Despite Tory austerity, which has hit councils the hardest, we have kept open every single childrenâs centre and maintained high levels of social care for adults and children. This has only been possible by reducing City Hall senior management, freezing top pay, using £50m+ of reserves, and retaining our 10:1 pay ratio (the core citiesâ best and half Labourâs 20:1 public sector target). But, these are only short-term measures. Only a Labour Government will promise to end austerity and then actually do it. In the meantime, together with the core cities, we will not stop fighting for fair funding for Bristol.This year, our Labour budget has also invested £90 million in tackling fuel poverty and climate change, recognising that social and environmental justice go hand-in-hand. We are pushing forward a £1 billion City Leap programme â our Green New Deal â to transform how the city generates, stores, and uses energy, and delivering on our promise for a £4 million Hartcliffe Way Recycling & Reuse Centre. My administration is also investing £20m+ in low emission vehicles for the council/waste company, securing bio-gas/fuel buses and retrofitting old models, cleaning up taxis, and lobbying for a national scrappage scheme, while encouraging city partners to go green too, as we develop a clean air plan in consultation with JAQU and the Minister. We have commenced a Bus Deal with First, which will mean huge investment in sustainable transport. Our administration will double bus journeys and is progressing work on a mass transit system which will transform transport and congestion.Our Childrenâs Charter, signed up to by all major city partners, and mental health work with schools will ensure all of Bristolâs kids get off to the best start in life. My administration has also launched the WORKS programme, delivered 2,500 work experience placements, and are supporting apprentices. This yearâs One City Plan priorities also put our young people first: affordable childcare, ending period poverty, and tackling street violence.The whole Labour movement has been part of my administration. We have developed an inclusive economic growth strategy â working with unions, workers, and business â to ensure that all citizens share in the cityâs success. Ensuring we have a diverse economy to provide jobs across all sectors is essential, as the emerging One City Plan recognises. I am also launching a city economy board to drive inclusion, on which the unions will be fully involved. I have signed the construction charter and am working with industry experts to roll this out across the city and overcome procurement rules to make sure the terms of that charter apply everywhere. We have also doubled social value as a key driver in procurement rules and, along with Preston, have done more than any other city to ensure the council and partners back the local economy. I have also ensured Bristol City Council has signed the Dying to Work charter and am working with unions to promote this across the city.I have also ensured that the council is a real Living Wage employer and, working with the TUC, have written to chief execs of Bristolâs 150 biggest employers, asking them to reach out to their unions and to embrace the Living Wage, becoming accredited Living Wage Foundation employers. We are also in the process of becoming an Ethical Care Charter city, where social care workers get the Living Wage and travel time. There are still more than 35,000 workers in Bristol paid less than the Living Wage; I want to make ours the first city where the real Living Wage is the benchmark, not the aspiration. We need another four years of a Labour mayor and Labour administration. I hope you will support me to deliver for another four years, and then join me to work together on, campaign for, and deliver on another radical manifesto, so that we can keep bringing Labour values to our city.Marvin Rees, Labour Mayor of Bristol ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- XXXX Branch, Labour Party Bristol Mayoral Affirmative Ballot Special Meeting XXXXX April XXXXpm XXXXX A membership check to take place before the meeting opens to ensure all those present joined before Dec XXX 2018 Welcome and introductions Explanation of procedures Time for members to read Mayorâs statement (15 minutes) Discussion of the merits of the directly elected Mayor (up to 30 minutes) Each member can speak only once, and for not longer than three minutes.Members arriving after the start of the discussion will not be allowed to take part or vote Appointment of tellers Ballot Declaration of result CLOSE OF MEETING
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