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…

Chocolate from the West of England: An eggs-amination

Dan Norris, Mayor of the West of England As you tuck into your Easter Egg, did you know that this year marks an egg-tra special anniversary?  Because 2023 is the 150th anniversary of the world’s first commercial hollow chocolate Easter egg which was made in West of England by chocolatiers Fry’s.  I think chocolate has…

Campaign Days … winning town, Parish, District en route to Government

Hastings & Rye Labour Parliamentary candidate Helena Dollimore and the CLP would like to invite you to our campaign day on the 2nd of April. Hastings and Rye is a constituency with both coastal towns and rural villages, so it is a perfect stomping ground for anyone associated with LCC!  It is also key to achieving a Labour…

Supporting Coast & Country candidates for the general election to come

Over the past six months or more selections for Labour candidates have been taking place across the country, with many more to come. For those of you who don’t yet to have a candidate to support, as well as those who want to help out in the absence of your own local elections in 2023,…

Labour: Winning for Communities of COAST & COUNTRY too

As Labour heads towards a manifesto for the next General Election we have been working with our wider network, and those who’ve signed up to the CPTNetwork, (that's kindly supported by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust) to bring together our contribution to the National Policy Forum process.  In response to the framing of the NPF Commissions, we…

Ending the rural digital deserts

Samantha Niblett, Vice-Chair (Membership) of Erewash CLP and Founder of Labour Women in Tech I don’t always agree with the Country Land and Business Association but it has a point when it says that rural areas are 19% less productive and could generate £43bn more for the UK's economy if it was levelled up. We…

Labour needs a SeaWall Taskforce to win and deliver for coastal communities

Cllr Polly Billington, Endorsed by Labour Coast & Country for South Thanet As a child, one of our family New Year traditions was to pile into the car and drive out of South London to the coast and eat fish and chips - in the freezing cold, bright, sharp, sunlight of an English seaside town.…

Watch the 2022 Virtual Coast & Country Conference

https://www.youtube.com/embed/QWk1EJtfCiY Session 1/4 Check out the first (1/4) session – Fairness for our Towns & Villages too - of our latest Virtual Coast & Country Conference, held on Saturday 3rd December, with Hywel Lloyd, Co-Founder, LCC and Duncan Carter, CALOR – the case study of ‘the challenge of decarbonising heat, fairly’. https://www.youtube.com/embed/kC9GBctFH-g Session 2/4 Check out the second (2/4) session – Is Levelling Up…