Archive for Martin Tiedemann
Gareth Thomas addresses Labour Party Conference
Gareth Thomas MP, Chair of the Co-operative Party, gave fraternal greetings on behalf of our movement to the Labour Party Annual Conference in Liverpool last month. You can now watch his speech below.
Report of the Co-operative Group of Welsh Assembly Members
As part of Annual Conference this year, our Welsh Assembly members recorded a video to give their annual report. You can watch the video below:
Sign up to support the Co-operative Housing Tenure Bill
As we outline here, this week Labour & Co-operative MP Jonathan Reynolds is introducing a Co-operative Party initiated parliamentary bill to end the essentially feudal nature of England’s land ownership laws and create a new form of tenure, Co-operative Housing Tenure. David Rodgers of CDS Co-ops explains why this change is so necessary over on [...]
Twigg to Education, Thomas now Shadow Minister for Co-ops
Several Co-operative MPs, including some elected to Parliament in 2010, have featured prominently in Ed Miliband’s reshuffle of the shadow frontbench team over the weekend. Joining Ed Balls MP and Lord Steve Bassam in Shadow Cabinet will be Stephen Twigg, Labour & Co-operative MP for Liverpool West Derby since 2010 and now Shadow Education Secretary. [...]
The Co-operative Housing Tenure Bill
Next Tuesday 11th October, Labour & Co-operative MP Jonathan Reynolds will be introducing a Co-operative Party initiated parliamentary bill to end the essentially feudal nature of England’s land ownership laws and create a new form of tenure, Co-operative Housing Tenure. Creating a distinct form of co-operative housing tenure would ensure that administration is reduced, courts better [...]
Treatment of Central Surrey Health shows Coalition really wants private entryism
Yesterday it was announced that the much-feted employee-owned organisation Central Surrey Health has lost out on a major NHS contract to a private company owned by Virgin Healthcare. As Patrick Butler put it in the Guardian, “David Cameron gave staff-owned Central Surrey Health a ‘Big Society’ award. But its first attempt to win business in [...]
Ed Miliband suggests a mutual option for the railways
Speaking to the Trades Union Congress earlier this week, Labour Leader Ed Miliband confirmed that the frontbench team are seriously considering mutual options for the future of the railways: “East Coast is an interesting example as it seems to be working well in public hands. I don’t think we should be ideological and say that [...]
Credit Union body welcomes London co-operative manifesto
ABCUL, the trade body representing credit unions, has welcomed the London Co-operative Party manifesto launched last week. Amongst the measures in the London Manifesto for 2012 are calls on the next mayor to complete access to credit unions across London by the end of the mayoral term, to develop existing London credit unions, to set up payroll [...]
Tom Greatrex MP makes Commons call for government action on credit union bank charges
Rutherglen and Hamilton West Labour and Co-operative MP Tom Greatrex spoke in Parliament today, calling on banks in Scotland to abandon the introduction of banking charges for not-for-profit credit unions. The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Clydesdale Bank are currently in the process of ending free banking for credit unions. There are more than [...]
Conference Arrangements Committee 2011/2
Two members of Conference Arrangements Committee have been elected by Co-operative Party Conference: Richard Bickle (Midlands Western Co-operative Party) was elected for three years. Russell Porteous (North Eastern & Cumbria Co-operative Party) was elected for one year. The Conference Arrangements Committee for 2011-2 will be: Peter Smyth Russell Porteous Eileen Driver Richard Bickle Bob Harber [...]
