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Welcome to the Shipley Labour website!
On this site you can find the latest news on what your local Labour party are up to - click the links for your wards on the menu on the left-hand side of the screen.
Our excellent Parliamentary Candidate, Susan Hinchcliffe is working hard on the doorstep every week with our council candidates for the May 2010 local elections.
We also have a councillor in Windhill & Wrose, Vanda Greenwood, who has served the community for coming on six years and will be up for re-election in 2010.
The Shipley Labour candidate for Bradford Council, Alex Ross, has a blog, which you can read here.
You can also support Susan by joining her Facebook group here!
HELP US WIN FOR SHIPLEY IN THE GENERAL ELECTION - You can now donate to Susan's campaign to become MP for Shipley and kick out the divisive Philip Davies by donating money via this link. You don't have to be a member to do it and any donation would be a great help in electing a positive MP for Shipley, not one who uses it as a soapbox for their own ridiculous campaigns.
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Residents in Shipley were astonished to read in The Guardian today that their Tory MP, Philip Davies has, over a two year period, been bombarding the Equality and Human Rights Commission with letters asking a series of incredible questions. Among the questions were "Is it offensive to black up or not, particularly if you are impersonating a black person?" and "Whether it is racist for a policeman to refer to a BMW as "black man's wheels"."
Susan Hinchcliffe, Prospective Labour Parliamentary Candidate for Shipley, said, "I find these letters incredible. At a time when it has been the prime concern of politicians to tackle unemployment, a global economic crisis and climate change, the elected representative for Shipley has been asking rather silly questions which makes us in Shipley look foolish."
For the full article please click here.
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The latest news feed from the Labour Party
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A new report shows that George Osborne's plans are badly flawed and would mean taking child tax credits away from couples earning over £31,000 per year A new report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has shown that families on modest and middle incomes would have to lose out to make Conservative plans add up. Research by the independent think tank was originally cited by George Osborne as confirmation that his plan to cut child tax credits would only mean ending support for families on incomes over £50,000. However, the IFS’ Green Budget report released this week spells out...
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