Barrow Branch Labour Party

29/08/2023

It was great to see so many people at the Town Hall on Saturday. Events like this are key to stopping the development at Roanhead going forward!

25/07/2023

Barrovians are being urged to ‘Brighten our Corner’ with a series of mini grants from the town council for initiatives in each town council ward. Two thousand pounds a year has been made available to each of the wards and councillors will be consulting fully with residents on how it will be spent. This equates to almost £100,000 in funding over the council term.

Councillor Steve Herbert from Risedale Ward, who put forward the idea said, “what struck me when campaigning was how much local folk just wanted town councillors to get on with listening and helping with the small things that could improve the ward- not grandiose schemes. For me, a town council is not about providing another layer of politics but about going to people directly and saying, “what would you like us to do? We are elected to represent the streets we are from and try and make some improvements.”

The initiative was supported unanimously by Barrow Town councillors on July 18th at the Town Hall. Each ward is tasked with holidng three different listening oppotunities to determine what local communities want.

“The ball is in each community’s court. It can be a clean up operation, a collection, repairs or anything else we might need money to do,” said Mr Herbert.

He agreed with his Risedale counterpart Councillor Palmer to work further on the process of application.

Town councillors will be contacting residents in the next few weeks for ideas.

23/07/2023

At a recent branch meeting, it was agreed that we should whole heartedly oppose the development at Roanhead.

Although there were many, many reasons for this - ranging from traffic concerns to the local economy - it cannot be stressed enough that Roanhead is a place of unique natural beauty, home to rare species like the natterjack toad, and is, and should continue to be, accessible to everyone who wishes to enjoy it.

If the area were to be developed, we’d lose something that’s special to us all and that nobody else in the world - not least the country - have had the privilege to live beside.

If you, like us, want to stop this development please consider signing the petition linked below and joining the community Facebook group (Save Roanhead From Developers)

Save Roanhead's Natterjack Toads from tourism

16/04/2023

Our Parish Council candidates have been busy this week! Here’s Dani Petrova and Fred Chatfield, standing in Central Ward, out and about chatting to residents about what matters to them most 🌹

08/03/2023

A huge congratulations to Chris Altree for Barrow and Furness for earning the nomination of our branch outright on the first ballot, for the second time round

Also well done to Michelle Scrogham Prospective Labour candidate for securing the branches second nomination

21/12/2022

On , we want to express our solidarity and support for CWU members who have been striking for better pay and working conditions.

Come rain or shine, postal workers are there for us, and we should return the favour now ✊✉️

05/12/2022

If elected, the next Labour Government will have a comprehensive plan to fight corruption, hand power back to local people, and ensure the U.K. has a bright future. We will:

✅ Abolish the House of Lords, replacing it with an elected chamber devoid of Government cronies

💵 Ban the vast majority of second jobs for MPs, making sure their number one priority is serving their constituents

👮 Establish an Anti-Corruption Commissioner to fight and root out criminal behaviour in politics

🇬🇧 Move 50,000 Jobs from Whitehall to places outside of London, spreading power and decision making across the U.K.

If the successive Governments of Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak have shown us anything, it’s that the U.K. needs to be reformed at a fundamental level

27/11/2022

Labour will scrap business rates and replace them with a fairer system to revitalise our high streets and drive economic growth.

17/11/2022

Since 2010, the budgets of local councils have been slashed year on year - with successive conservative Governments wielding the knife

In Barrow, for example, the councils budget has been cut by 40% over the last 7 years alone. Needless to say, these cuts have a huge impact on their ability to provide essential services to their residents and are deeply damaging to the long term prospects of towns up and down the country - particularly those, like Barrow, with high levels of poverty and deprivation

It also puts pressure on them to raise council tax to make up the difference - making life harder for ordinary, hard working people and, with the cuts to public services announced today, worsening the cost of living crisis.

13/11/2022

The Conservatives have led the NHS into the worst crisis in its history. There are now seven million people are waiting for care.

It doesn't have to be this way.

Labour will bring in one of the biggest NHS workforce expansions in history so patients are treated on time.

We send our solidarity to NHS staff striking this winter for fair pay and improved working conditions.