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Deputy Leader issues apology and pays £15,000 damages ...
Is Choice Based Letting another attack on council housing?
Oxford IWCA is poised to take further seats on Oxford City Council at next year’s elections after encouraging results on 5 May ...
Malicious smears made in a recent local Labour newsletter show how desperate the party has become in it’s response to the IWCA ...
As the Electoral Reform Society tells of election rigging cases by each of the main parties the IWCA warns voters to be careful who they entrust with postal ballots and application forms at the forthcoming
election ...
‘Eventually values and interests merge’ - new article on the IWCA national website ... Also on the IWCA national site: Labour MP Austin Mitchell’s attack
on his own government's ‘knee-jerk’ privatisation of public housing and contempt for tenants’ choices ... Read article
Val Smith, the former councillor for Blackbird Leys—once a Labour heartland seat—has come under heavy fire for her decision to quit as a city councillor and stand in the forthcoming county
council elections: see report on the Blackbird Leys IWCA website ...
The IWCA calls on the Labour Oxford East MP to come out and debate the real issues affecting Oxford residents instead of hiding behind the personality politics
and spin of his party ...
Following delivery of the IWCA’s first FACTS newsletter, Oxford City Council has put out a leaflet entitled ‘The real FACTS about the options’, which appears to be a thinly-disguised party-political attack on the IWCA’s campaign to keep tenants fully informed about the stock options process ... Also included in the FACTS update: Is Labour planning to go against tenants’ wishes?,
Tenants penalised for opting to stay with the council,
IWCA only party to support right-to-buy discount ...
New Labour’s last ditch attempt to persuade its core voters that it hasn’t abandoned them altogether continued on Friday with a promise that the minimum wage would rise from £4.85 to £5.05 per hour.
But it turns out that even the former director of the CBI is to the left of Labour on this question ...
Robert Jackson, the Conservative MP who joined the ranks of New Labour last month has recently been out campaigning in Rose Hill, according to the Oxford Mail
(‘Tory defector presses the flesh for Labour’, 7 February). No doubt the few remaining Labour supporters in this working class ward were dismayed to find one of the old enemies
canvassing on their doorsteps ...
Maurice Leen, 38, who lives in Cowley with his wife and two children, was elected to receive the party nomination at a recent Oxford IWCA meeting. ‘At the General Election people across the UK will have
the choice of the same three main parties, all of which have similar policies and the same anti-working class agenda. I’m standing in Oxford so that here at least there is the choice of a working class
candidate who is prepared to fight for the interests of working class people,’ said Maurice ...
In response to Oxford City Council’s stock options appraisal—looking at options for privatising local authority housing—Oxford IWCA has launched the Fight Against Council Transfers and Sell-offs
campaign. The first issue of the FACTS newsletter is now being distributed across Oxford to provide tenants with the information that the Labour-dominated council won’t ...
After three years in which New Labour has taken a beating at local elections, and with voters increasingly turning to non-mainstream parties, the government has announced sweeping changes to local government
with drastic cuts to the numbers of councillors and the abolition of district councils alltogether ...
A letter from the IWCA to the Oxford Mail points out that according to the National Office of Statistics the gap between rich and poor is not only increasing, but most scandalously of all, the life expectancy of the poorest in society is falling behind that of their richer counterparts ...
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