Farnham and Bordon Labour Party

1 month ago

✨ Some Good News You Might Have Missed Last Week (Mon 1 to Sun 7 Sept 2025) ✨

•⁠ ⁠1️⃣ From September 4,000 new nursery places are opening in schools, with up to 7,000 more places coming next year. 🚼

•⁠ ⁠2️⃣ Selling high-caffeine energy drinks to children under the age of 16 will soon be banned. ❌

•⁠ ⁠3️⃣ Major £10bn shipbuilding deal with Norway supports 2,000 jobs

•⁠ ⁠4️⃣From September 2026, parents will save money on uniforms as schools in England will only be allowed to ask for three branded items. 👔

•⁠ ⁠5️⃣ A new ‘pay-as-you-go’ rail ticketing system is being trialled, letting passengers tap in and out on their phones and automatically get the best fare at the end of the day. 🚂 ... See MoreSee Less

Farnham and Bordon Labour Party

2 months ago

📣 For anyone who tells you “Labour aren’t delivering left-wing policies” well here’s just a few things!:

🩺 Extra £29bn annual funding for the NHS (in real terms)
❌ Banning no-fault evictions, so renters can’t be thrown out for no reason
🚂 Bringing railways into public ownership
🍎 Free breakfast clubs, childcare, and extra nursery places
⬆️ Hiking stamp duty on second homes
🚫 Ending the use of offshore trusts to avoid inheritance tax
✅ Creating a publicly-owned company to invest in clean energy
🤧 Sick pay from day one, banning fire and rehire, instant unfair dismissal rights
👌🏼 Raising taxes on big commercial buildings (e.g. Amazon warehouses) to cut business rates for high street shops
✈️ Hiking taxes on private jet flights by 50%
🔚 Closing a tax loophole so farms worth £1m+ pay inheritance tax
🎓 Ending tax breaks for private schools and adding VAT to fees
💷 Increasing minimum wage by 6.7%
💊 100,000 more NHS appointments a week than the Tories
🚌 Allowing local authorities to run their own bus services, and protect crucial routes
📍 A family hub in every English council area to help with breastfeeding, housing, and early child development
🏡 Easier access to social housing for veterans, domestic abuse victims and care leavers
☎️ Mental health support 24hrs day added to NHS 111 so it’s there to access for anyone who’s struggling

And they’re coming by the shed-load. No other party would or could do this! This is a left-wing government, delivering left-wing policies, to build a fairer country. ... See MoreSee Less

Farnham and Bordon Labour Party

2 months ago

🌹 *Good News You Might Have Missed Last Week (Mon 11 to Sun 17 Aug 2025) ⬇️*

1️⃣ *Bobbies Back on the Beat* 🚓
- Named, contactable police officers are now in place across every neighbourhood in England and Wales.

2️⃣ *40,000 people to get new skills* 🚧
- New specialist colleges will train thousands of future builders, plumbers and electricians. Creating more local jobs while making sure we build the homes our communities need.

3️⃣ *New National Nature Reserve* 🌸
* England’s newly expanded Stiperstones Landscape National Nature Reserve will protect 3,700 acres of beautiful, rare habitats and give people more places to explore nature.

4️⃣ *Making Coal Tips Safer* ⛑️
- Old coal tips can be dangerous. New funding will make them safer and free up land to build new homes for hard-working Welsh families.

5️⃣ *Cracking Down on Electrical Waste* 💻
- Instead of leaving the costs to councils and local businesses, online retailers like Amazon and eBay will now help pay for clearing up old electricals.

#FabLab #Labour #Farnham #Bordon

🤳*Share on! Forward this to 5 friends on WhatsApp!* ... See MoreSee Less

Farnham and Bordon Labour Party

2 months ago

*Here’s nine things Labour’s Plan For Change has delivered over the past two weeks*:

📈 Fastest growth in the G7 in the first half of this year
⬇️ Fifth interest rate cut with Labour! Homebuyers are also £1000 better off on their mortgages than they were a year ago
🛑 First migrants detained under Labour’s ground breaking returns agreement with France
✈️ Foreign criminals will face immediate deportation with the expansion of the ‘Deport Now Appeal Later’ scheme and a law change to allow immediate deportation of convicted foreign criminals
👮‍♀️ With Labour, named, contactable police officers are now in place across every neighbourhood in England and Wales
👷 40,000 future bricklayers, roofers, electricians, and carpenters will get specialist skills training in Labour’s new Construction Technical Excellence Colleges
🎨 £88 million investment announced to support youth clubs, after school activities and local organisations — connecting young people to their communities
❌ £100 million funding boost to recruit hundreds of new officers to the National Crime Agency to disrupt people smuggling gangs
🏥 Cracking down on unsafe cosmetic procedures to keep people safe and reduce the cost to the NHS of fixing botched procedures ... See MoreSee Less