100 years of Labour Government Video
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News - Harpenden and Berkhamsted
Today is exactly 100 years from the first ever Labour government
A Century of Progress: 1924 – 2024
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All Members Meeting – Harpenden and Berkhamsted CLP January 9th 2024
An All Members Meeting was held on 9th January – with over 40 members joining using Zoom. For the first time, Zoom was used for anonymous voting successfully. The meeting was quorate. Kevin Bonavia, the parliamentary candidate for Stevenage presented to the meeting and provided valuable insights into his campaign.…
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Private Polling suggests Labour can win Harpenden and Berkhamsted by 4,000 votes
“Private polling seen by the St Albans Times shows Labour would win the new constituency of Harpenden and Berkhamsted … … telephone and online polling carried out between October 17 and November 29 asked 968 adults who they would vote for if there was a General Election the next day.…
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All Members Meeting for Harpenden and Berkhamsted CLP
This is a reminder of tonight’s Harpenden and Berkhamsted CLP meeting tonight at 7.30pm. All members should have received an invite to the Zoom meeting. If not, you can contact using the contact form on the website.
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Berkhamsted and Tring Labour Party – Response to Dacorum Strategy for Growth
This document provided the Berkhamsted and Tring Labour Party response to the revised Dacorum Strategy for Growth https://letstalk.dacorum.gov.uk/hub-page/localplan2023 prepared in November and December 2023.
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Politics in the Pub
Monday 27th November, 7pm, Politics in the Pub @ The George in Berkhamsted to discuss the Dacorum Local Plan. A group of members are meeting up tomorrow night for an informal discussion of the Dacorum Local Plan. All members are very welcome. Please accept my apologies for the short…
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Fossil Fuel Buyout
Fossil Fuel Buyout This CLP Notes: The technology for a transition to a zero carbon society now exists. Renewables are proven to be the cheapest way of generating electricity and there are proven paths to replace all fossil fuel uses with electricity, or by products made from it. Low energy…
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Have your say on train ticket office closure plans
London NorthWestern Railway has asked for feedback on the Conservative instigated plans to close railway ticket offices. If you would like to respond, this must be done before 26th July. https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/23672658.say-train-ticket-office-closure-plans/ Proposed changes to ticket offices We want to let you know that London Northwestern Railway is proposing to…
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CLP All Members Meeting – 6th June 2023
The next Constituency Labour Party (CLP) All Members Meeting for South West Herts is taking place at 8pm on the 6th June 2023 over Zoom. We will be deciding who our Conference Delegates will be this year. We will also be voting on our nominations for National Officers and National…
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Berkhamsted Town Council Results
Labour had two members elected to Berkhamsted Town Council in May 2023 : Rebecca Mackenzie, the Branch Chair, in Berkhamsted West and Mike Bromberg in Berkhamsted East. Congratulations to Rebecca and Mike and thanks to all the other candidates who weren’t elected and indeed everyone who put in so much…
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Dacorum Council Election Results May 2023
The composition of Dacorum Council is now: Liberal Democrats – 28 seats Conservatives – 18 seats Labour – 3 seats Independent – 2 seats So, Labour’s best result for many years – we had no seats last time around – and perhaps the start of something bigger in the future.…
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Only Labour can beat the Tories in South West Herts
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Berkhamsted and Tring Fundraiser April 2023
Over 90 members attended a very enjoyable fundraiser social (featuring live music from local band “The Classics”).
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Hear about Keir Starmer from his friend and former colleague Patrick
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MPs should do better – Letter to Watford Observer 24th March 2023
You have published my letters in this newspaper on several occasions and often they have been concerned with how many of us in Watford and Hemel Hempstead are struggling to make ends meet. This is hardly surprising given that food inflation is currently 17 per cent; big increases in energy…
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A fuss about not much – Letter to Watford Observer 17th March 2023
For the last ten days the press has had a field day with the BBC-Gary Lineker story. I think it’s more a “handbags at dawn” disagreement myself and not particularly important in the greater scheme of things. If only the press devoted as much attention and as many headlines to…
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Labour Party Fund Raiser
Berkhamsted and Tring Branch of the Labour Party are organising a Fund Raising Event at the Berkhamsted Civic Centre on the 15th April from 7.30 to 10.30. The event is for members and supporters throughout South West Herts and other Constituency Labour Parties. It will be a great opportunity to…
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What are MPs’ Views – Letter to Watford Observer 3rd March 2023
Some good news for once because this week the Government announced that it spent £24 the billion less than it budgeted for. Brilliant I thought, the money can be used to freeze the £2,500 energy price cap which is due to rise to £3,000 next month. This would be a…
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Rewarding Damage – Letter to Watford Observer 4th February 2023
This week it was announced that pay packages for top executives in the water industry rose on average 20 per cent last year. The four senior executives of Thames Water, for example, shared £3.24 million between them. You might think that rewards of this size were in return for outstanding…
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Missing The Point – Letter to Watford Observer – 13th January 2023
Rishi Sunak refused at the weekend to say if he used private GPs. Some people I know have commented that if he wishes to spend his money this way then this is a matter for him – and in any event reduces the pressure on the NHS. But in my…
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