UWS Labour Club

26/09/2016

Kezia Dugdale, Leader of the Scottish Labour Party, addresses Labour's Annual Conference 2016 in Liverpool. Watch other speeches from Annual Conference 2016 ...

12/09/2016

On behalf of everyone at the Labour Party, we’d like to wish all Muslims in the UK a very happy and healthy Eid-Al-Adha.
This is a very special time of year for Muslims, where family and communities come together to reflect, pray, and offer their support to charity. Eid Mubarak!

24/08/2016

Today the Scottish Government published its annual accounts. The figures, known as GERS, should act as a 'reality check' for the SNP

Read more here ➞ http://bit.ly/2bN4ohi

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21/08/2016

Callum Hawkins finishes 9th in the marathon! Congratulations, Callum - everyone at UWS is hugely proud of you!

16/06/2016

The whole of the Labour Party and Labour family - and indeed the whole country - will be in shock at the horrific murder of Jo Cox today.

Jo Cox had a lifelong record of public service and a deep commitment to humanity. She worked both for Oxfam and the anti-slavery charity, the Freedom Fund, before she was elected last year as MP for Batley and Spen – where she was born and grew up.

Jo was dedicated to getting us to live up to our promises to support the developing world and strengthen human rights – and she brought those values and principles with her when she became an MP.

Jo Cox died doing her public duty at the heart of our democracy, listening to and representing the people she was elected to serve. It is a profoundly important cause for us all.

Jo was universally liked at Westminster, not just by her Labour colleagues, but across parliament.

In the coming days, there will be questions to answer about how and why she died. But for now all our thoughts are with Jo’s husband Brendan and their two young children. They will grow up without their Mum, but can be immensely proud of what she did, what she achieved and what she stood for.

We send them our deepest condolences. We have lost a much loved colleague, a real talent and a dedicated campaigner for social justice and peace. But they have lost a wife and a mother, and our hearts go out to them.

13/06/2016

Glasgow's Lord Provost - City is flying the Rainbow flag at half mast today in solidarity with the people of and communities everywhere. Our thoughts and prayers are with all those affected by this terrible atrocity.

21/05/2016

Mhairi Black in today's Herald
"Complacent MP's can skive and get away with it".

Yet if we look at her record..... We expect better. Paisley deserves better then this...

13/05/2016

TODAY we launch 🌹❤️🇪🇺
We must make EU arguments of the heart as well as the head.

Kezia will formally launch the Labour In campaign in Scotland today by urging people not to get complacent in the face of strong poll ratings for a vote to remain in the EU.

At an event in Edinburgh to launch Scottish Labour's pro-EU campaign with Alan Johnson, Chair of Labour In for Britain, Kezia Dugdale will urge people to get out and make the positive case for staying in the EU.

The Scottish Labour leader will also say that although the economic case for staying in the EU is overwhelming, the emotional arguments for remaining in the EU must also be made.

Kezia will say:

“Don’t listen to those who say that Scotland is going to vote overwhelmingly to remain in the EU on 23 June.

“The last few weeks have taught us again not to read polls as prediction, as if we needed another lesson after the general election. There’s no such thing as a guaranteed win in politics. There can be no complacency when the future of our nation is at stake.

“We may be weary as a nation after three national campaigns in as many years, but we need to do it all over again in the next few weeks.

“We will make the case with passion and conviction.”

Addressing the emotional case for staying in the EU, Kezia Dugdale will say:

“In this debate we must win the head arguments but they have to be combined with a story that reaches people’s hearts.

“We will make the economic case: that trade with the EU is essential to Scottish jobs, second only to our domestic market in the UK.

“We will argue the case for workers’ rights - that Europe guarantees basic standards at work for millions of Scottish workers, regardless of who is in government.

“We will argue that in a world of constant change and confusing new threats, we are more secure in bigger alliances than alone.

“We will make these arguments, but we will also argue that there is something beautiful about being part of this European family. It isn’t found in the grey offices of officials in Brussels or in the columns of national balance sheets, but in lives made more colourful, more fulfilling and more exciting in the cities and towns of Scotland, the UK and 27 other nations.

“My generation, and that of my parents before me, have become so used to that that we don’t stop to wonder at the achievement the EU represents.

“From Scandinavia to the Aegean. From the Balearic Islands to the Arctic Circle. From the Carpathians to the Highlands. We cooperate, sharing freedom, together. It's a continent whose history is written in conflict and chaos but is now defined by peace and prosperity.

“We have been part of that. We built that. It’s not perfect but it is as extraordinary an achievement as any in our history.

“We are a more European country for having built that union. We are richer for it. Not just the bump in our GDP, as important as that is, but richer for the shared experiences, the mixing of cultures, the people we’ve come to know, the amazing experiences and opportunities that the EU has brought to us.

“I fear we may not realise that until it’s gone.”

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12/05/2016

08/05/2016

We will fight for a more effective Scottish Parliament

Our manifesto contained many proposals for reforming the Scottish Parliament that received backing from all opposition parties.

We will work with other parties to make them a reality.

Scottish Labour will be a positive and effective opposition and one of the first jobs of opposition is to hold the Government to account and to hold them responsible for the decisions they are making.

To do that, we need a Scottish Parliament where the many voices of opposition – from all parties – are heard.

As a start, the Presiding Officer and the majority of committee convenorships should not come from the governing party.

We saw in the last term that SNP dominated committees did not provide anywhere near the level of scrutiny that the Government’s work required. We will work to change that.

But we must go further. People require confidence that the politicians they elect to serve are giving them the full attention they deserve.

Being a member of the Scottish Parliament is an immense privilege and it should be the only job that MSPs do. That is why we will push for a ban on MSPs holding second jobs, including paid directorships and consultancies.

Read more here: http://www.scottishlabour.org.uk/blog/entry/we-will-fight-for-a-more-effective-scottish-parliament

05/05/2016

From 7am - 10pm you'll have the chance to vote in the Scottish Parliament elections!

We urge Paisley to vote for Neil Bibby!!

Paisley needs an MSP that will invest in it's people, that will be a strong, loud local voice in the Scottish Government. Paisley needs a MSP that will end austerity and invest in p***c services.

Only Neil will stand up for Paisley.

27/04/2016

Here's Scottish Labour's manifesto for Scotland. Worth a read!!

SCOTTISH LABOUR MANIFESTO 2016

Read it here now: http://www.scottishlabour.org.uk/blog/entry/scottish-labour-manifesto-2016