northampton politics

  • Hail Simmonds!

    Hail Simmonds!

    Simmonds thinks he’s Caesar he reminds me of Caligula Fiddle as Northampton burns! He’s a school builder not a crime fighter Simmonds school he played us for fools Blood stained legacy long after he’s history the truth will be a mystery Corruption in Northampton is a state of normality Police force on all fours you

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  • County Council: Death By A Thousand Cuts

    Lingchi was an an ancient Chinese torture method which is more widely known in the west as death by a thousand cuts, a torture method this council seems to have adopted as its model for local government policy. Make no mistake that sooner or later people will die because of the butchering of our local

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  • What are we building? What are we fighting for? I’m no longer sure. It seems to me that the left has become the most complex and convoluted system for lobbying the government that has ever existed. While communities have come under prolonged and sustained attack, completely ripped apart for generations now, it looks to me

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  • The rising tide of food theft in Northampton an ocean that is on the rise across this whole country, is something our leaders should be completely ashamed of and if they were acting for the benefit of the poor and needy, no doubt they would be. The Chronicle and Echo (Northampton Local Paper) publishes the

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  • I would like to start by thanking everyone that voted for me in the elections, and I’m looking forward to building a vibrant Left Unity base within the East Midlands with you all. I would also like to congratulate Liz Silver, and I’m looking forward to working with her in representing the East Midlands on

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  • This week we have heard how Sally Keeble turned down a nice little one thousand pound gift from ex-pm Tony Blair, though not the only one to turn down the money, we would be fooling ourselves if we thought this had anything to do with a principled stance of the ex-pm. Sally Keeble was elected

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  • Left Unity a party that was built with internal democracy in mind, with yearly elections a prominent feature of how we hold the party to account. We operate a one member, one vote system, where ideally members are free agents to choose who they want representing them. How turned off I have been then to

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  • Northampton Borough Council has shown complete and utter contempt for the chamber, the position and most importantly the people of Northampton, as they spend their last full meeting before the elections patting themselves on the back and electioneering. They seem to have forgotten the problems facing the administration, and will face up until the time

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  • A campaign recently launched in Northampton called “Kill with Kindness” (yes that is its real name), has the aim of encouraging people not to be kind to homeless people. It declares that homeless people are drunks and drug addicts and by giving them money you are therefore feeding their habits and killing them. It declares

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  • As we know it Is election year and Left Unity will have about as much impact on the election as the bedroom tax on the deficit. Regardless of how much of an impact we are going to have however we need to be having a simple and clear message with which the people can relate

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