Category Archives: Elections
Don’t forget to vote!
Today is polling day so don’t forget to vote. If you are still at all undecided, here are a few (dozen) reasons to vote for Labour in Horsham, apart from the local reasons we mentioned the other day. Borrowing from … Continue reading
Reasons to vote Labour in Horsham constituency
The 2010 general election could be the most important one for decades. There are many reasons to prefer a Labour government to a Tory government and Gordon Brown’s speech yesterday re-stated many of those reasons, but we would like to … Continue reading
Make it so
Labour’s candidate in Horsham, Andrew Skudder, went across to Crawley today to support Chris Oxlade’s campaign there, but also to grab the opportunity to meet one of his heroes: the actor Patrick Stewart who was also visiting the town to … Continue reading
Gordon Brown’s speech to Citizens UK
Today, in what is being called the unofficial fourth leaders’ debate, Gordon Brown made an impressive speech about the values of the Labour party.
Last chance to see…
There were only three hustings events organised for this election campaign. One was at Crawley Down yesterday and there was a school hustings at Collyer’s this afternoon. The last one is at Tanbridge House school this evening at 7:30pm, organised … Continue reading
It’s postal vote time
Round about now the voters of Horsham who have registered for a postal vote should be gettnig their ballot papers arriving. If you are registered for a postal vote and have not received yours yet, get in touch with the … Continue reading
Horsham’s Labour candidate declares interests
In March 2010 the Ministry of Justice issued guidance about declarations of interest to all parliamentary election candidates in response to a recommendation by the Committee for Standards in Public Life. Producing a declaration is voluntary but the recommendation was … Continue reading
Tories’ commitment to ‘people power’ in doubt
Over the weekend David Cameron has been promoting a policy that if a party in government changes its leader then the new Prime Minister must hold an election within six months. He said “it means putting the people in control”. … Continue reading
Labour in Billingshurst
Horsham Labour party set out its stall in Billingshurst today – literally. We had a street stall where we had some intersting discussions with passers-by, got some more signatures for our petitions on affordable housing and council play schemes, and … Continue reading