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Bringing different political traditions Together: My First Experiences and Steps as a Community Councillor
Cllr Robert Parkinson — Community Councillor for Far Cotton and Delapre Community Council I’m proud to have been recently elected as a Community Councillor for Far Cotton and Delapre Community Council in Northamptonshire. This election, held in May 2025, resulted in 11 councillors being elected unopposed and one subsequent cooption, creating a 12member Council serving around…
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Deputy Leadership candidates answer C&C questions
Thanks to positive engagement from both Deputy Leader campaign teams please see their responses to our Coast & Country questions; we hope that helps you decide how you will vote; and will give us a Deputy Leader we can work with to continue Labour’s presence and representation of communities of Coast & of Country. Bridget’s…
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Out of bounds for Labour?
Cllr John Haywood For many years, when I meet Labour people and tell them about the politics of the New Forest, especially the west of the Forest, they are amazed that there is any Labour activity at all. Our MP, the dozing Tory Sir Desmond Swayne, has a 24,000 majority. Labour only polled more than 10,000 once before…
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Local Elections 2023: Miles and miles, across a complicated ‘landscape’
John Clark I’d been active in the Labour Party in London since 1967 and then in Suffolk since the first Lockdown in 2020. I moved my virtual self to Suffolk and started going to Leiston Branch meetings later that year. I think there are issues around both Councils in larger rural / low density areas…
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What can you do as a Labour Town Councillor?
Report from National Association of Local Councils Conference 2022 Jonathan Wallcroft is a Town Councillor in Keynsham; and LCC’s Field Organiser for the CPTNetwork. I had the pleasure of attending NALC’S conference on November 7th. Unfortunately the conference was online rather than in person, but in its own Zoomy way perhaps it painted a more…
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The most important town council by-election of the year – Hywel Lloyd
This Thursday, May 12th, sees a by-election in Tiverton, yet it isn’t the one you’re thinking of…. It is the by-election for Lowman Ward of Tiverton Town Council, a seat that is only being contested between Labour, Conservative and an Independent (so much for the Lib Dems’ “winning here”). LCC has long argued that when our members campaign…
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NALC opens nominations for Star Council Awards 2022
By Niamh MacElvogue, Communications intern, National Association of Local Councils The National Association of Local Councils (NALC) has opened nominations for the Star Council Awards 2022. As the only awards in England recognising the contribution local (parish and town) councils make to their communities, the Star Council Awards are an opportunity for the local council…
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View from Bradley Stoke – Cllr Angela Morey
It was a rainy grey Wednesday last January when scrolling through Facebook I saw a post: Vacancy for a councillor in Bradley Stoke North. Friends started ‘tagging’ me to tell me they thought I should go for it, having been very active in my community for many years. I wondered if it could be the…
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Some thoughts on being a parish councillor – John Barnes
In May, I was elected onto my local parish council in Wiltshire. Rather unusually for a parish council in this area, this was through a contested election; parish councillors are often elected unopposed. I came onto the council with it facing significant challenges – it was at less than half strength, and our Parish Clerk…