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		<title>There is no place like home</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[written by: Lewes Labour - Campaign team&#160;You may have heard the news that under this Tory-led Government, there has been a 17% increase in the number of families losing their homes. These aren&#8217;t just dry statistics &#8211; they are real families facing homelessness.&#160; The Government must change course, stop cutting too far and too fast and come up with a Plan B for the economy &#8211; before more people lose their homes. Help us send that message by signing the petition &#160;9 views 
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<p>&nbsp;<a href="http://leweslabour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/5e5833cf-58f1-4744-a5b0-e23a4dc84bce.jpg"><img alt="" title="5e5833cf-58f1-4744-a5b0-e23a4dc84bce" width="300" height="99" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1189" src="http://leweslabour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/5e5833cf-58f1-4744-a5b0-e23a4dc84bce-300x99.jpg" /></a>You may have heard the news that under this Tory-led Government, there has been a 17% increase in the number of families losing their homes.<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; " /><br />
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These aren&rsquo;t just dry statistics &ndash; they are real families facing homelessness.&nbsp;<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; " /><br />
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The Government must change course, stop cutting too far and too fast and come up with a Plan B for the economy &ndash; before more people lose their homes.<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; " /><br />
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Help us send that message by <a href="http://www.campaignengineroom.org.uk/housing">signing the petition</a></p>
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		<title>The Tories flounder, Osborne has failed, Labour fight on&#8230;..</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lewes Labour - Campaign team</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[written by: Lewes Labour - Campaign teamThis is a really worrying time for families and businesses; struggling with higher food prices and gas bills and worried about their jobs and their children&#8217;s futures.&#160; The Tory-led Government are cutting too far and too fast and risk choking off economic recovery. Unemployment is rising again and is currently at the highest level in 17 years.&#160; One in five young people are out of work and now more women are unemployed than at any time since 1988.&#160; We need [...]101 views 
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<p><a href="http://leweslabour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/a0b51517-e236-1fb4-71ce-13e8d7a5306a.jpeg"><img alt="" title="a0b51517-e236-1fb4-71ce-13e8d7a5306a" width="300" height="102" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1109" src="http://leweslabour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/a0b51517-e236-1fb4-71ce-13e8d7a5306a-300x102.jpg" /></a>This is <u>a really worrying time for families and businesses</u>; <em>struggling with higher food prices and gas bills</em> and worried about their jobs and their children&rsquo;s futures.&nbsp;<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; " /><br />
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The Tory-led Government are cutting too far and too fast and risk choking off economic recovery. Unemployment is rising again and is currently at the highest level in 17 years.&nbsp; One in five young people are out of work and now more women are unemployed than at any time since 1988.&nbsp;<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; " /><br />
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We need to act now to show the Tory-led Government that there is another way.<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; " /><br />
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Labour has set out a clear five-point plan for jobs, to help struggling families and support small businesses.&nbsp;Our jobs plan includes:</p>
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<div><strong>1. A &pound;2 billion tax on bank bonuses to fund 100,000 jobs for young people and build 25,000 affordable homes</strong></div>
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<div><strong>2. Bringing forward long-term investment projects, like new school buildings</strong></div>
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<div><strong>3. Temporarily reversing the VAT rise &ndash; a &pound;450 boost for families with children</strong></div>
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<div><strong>4. A one year cut in VAT to 5% on home improvements and repairs to help small businesses</strong></div>
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<div><strong>5. A tax break for every small firm which takes on extra workers</strong></div>
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<div>Find out more about Labour&#8217;s 5 point plan <a href="http://www.labour.org.uk/plan">here</a></div>
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		<title>Liberal Democrats Show their true colours</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Louis Blair</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[written by: Louis BlairIt would seem that this was the week that the Lib Dems revealed their true nature as &#34;liberal&#34; cover for right wing Tory policies. &#160; Firstly, the Government announced an huge extension of the Right to Buy which would allegedly allow Councils to replace the homes sold. However, they glossed over how homes could be replaced when 50% of the value was lost in the discount and the fact that any new homes that were provided would be close to [...]46 views 
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<p>It would seem that this was the week that the Lib Dems revealed their true nature as &quot;liberal&quot; cover for right wing Tory policies.</p>
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<div>Firstly, the Government announced an huge extension of the Right to Buy which would allegedly allow Councils to replace the homes sold. However, they glossed over how homes could be replaced when 50% of the value was lost in the discount and the fact that any new homes that were provided would be close to private rents way above existing Council rents. This policy could lead to Lewes District losing homes which will never be replaced at huge cost to families in our community. &nbsp;</div>
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<div>Lewes Labour supports making affordable home ownership available to more tenants but not at the cost of decimating our limited social housing stock.</div>
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<div>Next, poor old Vince Cable proposed that companies with under ten employees should be able to hire and fire at will without employees having any employment protection or recourse to employment tribunals. At a time of great job insecurity and low confidence how can spreading fear be an answer to the problems of our stagnant economy.</div>
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<div>I don&#8217;t know if these Lib Dem stooges and their Tory masters are just taking us back to Thatcherism, its starting to look more like the 1930&#8242;s. &nbsp;&nbsp;</div>
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		<title>Climate Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lewes Labour - Campaign team</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[written by: Lewes Labour - Campaign teamClimate change is the greatest threat to the future of our planet and without action we will not be able to reverse its effects. This year at the UN conference in Durban, countries can take action to reduce harmful emissions, help create thousands of low carbon jobs and support poorer nations to cope with the effects of a changing planet. This won&#8217;t happen without leadership. That&#8217;s why Labour is calling on David Cameron to start showing some leadership on climate [...]40 views 
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<p><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Climate change is the greatest threat to the future of our planet and without action we will not be able to reverse its effects.</strong></p>
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This year at the UN conference in Durban, countries can take action to reduce harmful emissions, help create thousands of low carbon jobs and support poorer nations to cope with the effects of a changing planet.<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; " /><br />
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This won&rsquo;t happen without leadership.<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; " /><br />
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That&#8217;s why Labour is calling on David Cameron to start showing some leadership on climate change.</p>
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* Seizing the opportunity to build a low carbon economy;<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; " /><br />
* Pushing for a second period of the Kyoto protocol and working towards a global deal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions;<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; " /><br />
* Delivering on climate finance.<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; " /><br />
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<strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Add your voice to those calling for action by signing up to <a href="http://www.campaignengineroom.org.uk/climatechange">Labour&rsquo;s Climate Change Pledge.</a></strong></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[written by: Lewes Labour - Campaign team&#160;We&#8217;ve just seen the latest unemployment figures, we are sure you&#8217;ve seen them too. Unemployment went up again this summer. And over 1 million young people are now out of work &#8211; a record high. Today, we&#8217;re supporting a new campaign by the unions to tell the real stories of this jobs crisis. If you have lost your job, or if you are worried about the future for you or your family, we want you to speak out. Together, we [...]37 views 
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<p>&nbsp;We&rsquo;ve just seen the latest unemployment figures, we are sure you&rsquo;ve seen them too.</p>
<p>Unemployment went up again this summer. And over 1 million young people are now out of work &ndash; a record high.</p>
<p>Today, we&rsquo;re supporting a new campaign by the unions to tell the real stories of this jobs crisis. If you have lost your job, or if you are worried about the future for you or your family, we want you to speak out. Together, we have to make Cameron and Osborne realise how many lives are being ruined by the jobs crisis they have caused with their reckless gamble with the economy. Will you help us?</p>
<p><a href="http://leweslabour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/crisis-s.png"><img alt="" title="crisis-s" width="300" height="277" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1153" src="http://leweslabour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/crisis-s.png" /></a></p>
<p><a style="color: rgb(69, 30, 103); " href="http://www.unionstogether.org.uk/page/m/6e20efc4/6e225e17/3c046c94/524f45d7/4095235496/VEsF/"><strong>http://www.unionstogether.org.uk/jobscrisis</strong></a></p>
<p>Many of our members and supporters have young children, and this government&rsquo;s austerity measures are hurting families like us. Food, heating and other bills just keep going up and up &ndash; making ends meet each month is hard enough, without worrying about our jobs as well.</p>
<p>Even more of us are worried about our young people &ndash; so many are coming out of school or college and can&rsquo;t get a job. What sort of future will they have?</p>
<p>Cameron and Osborne are taking a reckless gamble with our economy, and with people&rsquo;s lives &ndash; and the gamble&rsquo;s not paying off. Their austerity measures are not only cutting the services we rely on, and the pensions that give us dignity in retirement &#8211; they&rsquo;re also responsible for putting so many people out of work.</p>
<p>The Tories like to talk tough about paying down the deficit, but by putting tens of thousands of people on the dole &#8211; claiming benefits instead of paying taxes &#8211; their sums simply don&rsquo;t add up.&nbsp;They&#8217;re making it&nbsp;<em>harder</em>&nbsp;to get the deficit down, and are set to borrow billions more than they planned.</p>
<p>That&rsquo;s why we are asking you to share your stories today &ndash; so that together we can paint a picture of what this government&rsquo;s economic gamble is doing to people across the country.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.unionstogether.org.uk/page/m/6e20efc4/6e225e17/3c046c94/524f45d7/4095235496/VEsC/" style="color: rgb(69, 30, 103); "><strong>http://www.unionstogether.org.uk/jobscrisis</strong></a></p>
<p>Cameron and Osborne have chosen this path &ndash; but it doesn&rsquo;t have to be this way. Be part of our campaign to <strong>say no to austerity, and no to the jobs crisis.</strong></p>
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		<title>Drop The Bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[written by: Lewes Labour - Campaign teamThe Government is planning the biggest re-organisation of the NHS since it began in 1948. It is unnecessary, unwanted, wasteful and damaging &#8211; and threatens to end the NHS as we know it. Only last year, the Government promised people they wouldn&#8217;t do it. Many thousands of people have already called on the Government to stop. But they are ploughing on, ignoring public and professional opinion, out of touch with Britain.&#160; We need to make the Government listen before it&#8217;s [...]41 views 
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<p>The Government is planning the biggest re-organisation of the NHS since it began in 1948.<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; " /><br />
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It is unnecessary, unwanted, wasteful and damaging &ndash; and threatens to end the NHS as we know it. Only last year, the Government promised people they wouldn&rsquo;t do it. Many thousands of people have already called on the Government to stop.</p>
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But they are ploughing on, ignoring public and professional opinion, out of touch with Britain.&nbsp; We need to make the Government listen before it&#8217;s too late.<strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; " /><br />
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[written by: Lewes Labour - Campaign teamWe have supported this tax for a long while, our candidate at the general election put his weight behind it, and it became an issue again at the G20 summit. &#160; Over the course of the G20, a group of G20 countries from France to Brazil backed the Robin Hood Tax, under pressure from trade unions, development NGOs and climate change campaigners. The link between the Robin Hood Tax and fighting poverty and climate change at home and abroad became [...]50 views 
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<p><strong>We have supported this tax for a long while, our candidate at the general election put his weight behind it, and it became an issue again at the G20 summit.</strong></p>
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<p>Over the course of the G20, a group of G20 countries from France to Brazil backed the Robin Hood Tax, under pressure from trade unions, development NGOs and climate change campaigners.</p>
<p>The link between the Robin Hood Tax and fighting poverty and climate change at home and abroad became clearer than ever. Momentum is building and leaders like David Cameron who opposed the tax have been left looking increasingly isolated.</p>
<p>This happened because millions of people like you, in campaign groups across the world, forced the Robin Hood Tax to the top of the political agenda, and sent their leaders to the G20, aware of the levels of concern at home.</p>
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<p>But it doesn&#8217;t end here. Far from it. David Cameron remains one of the key blockers in the international process, so it&#8217;s vital we keep up the pressure on the UK government ahead of EU talks this week and UN climate talks in South Africa in December.</p>
<p>Trade unions around the world &ndash; from the USA to South Africa &#8211; are pushing their governments to support the Robin Hood Tax. Here in the UK, as the economy fails to pick up and cuts to public&nbsp;services continue to hit ordinary people, we need to keep the pressure on Cameron &ndash; the Robin Hood Tax is a key part of Plan B.</p>
<p>We are now part of a movement of millions. From church services in St. Paul&#8217;s to nurses on Wall Street, people everywhere are saying enough is enough. <strong>A Robin Hood Tax remains the best option on the table to start making the financial sector work for people, not just for profit.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Ideas this good don&#8217;t come along every day. And when they do, </strong><u><strong>they&#8217;re too powerful to ignore.</strong></u></p>
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		<title>Fawcett Society: march against impact of cuts on women: 19th November &#8211; London</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[written by: Lewes Labour - Campaign team&#160; See website: http://www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/index.asp?PageID=1247 Saturday 19th November: Day of Action On average, women earn less, own less, and are more likely to work and retire in poverty than men. The government&#8217;s approach to cutting the deficit will widen the gap between women and men: &#160; -Female unemployment is rising as jobs are cut in public services -The benefits and services women rely on more are being slashed -Women on low incomes are becoming poorer -The pay gap looks set to [...]65 views 
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 22.0px 0.0px; font: 15.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; color: #206be8"><span style="color: #000000"><b>See website: </b><a href="http://www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/index.asp?PageID=1247"><span style="text-decoration: underline"><b>http://www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/index.asp?PageID=1247</b></span></a></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 22.0px 0.0px; font: 15.0px 'Trebuchet MS'"><b>Saturday 19th November: Day of Action</b></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 17.0px 0.0px; font: 17.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; min-height: 20.0px"><a href="http://leweslabour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/fawcett.jpeg"><img alt="" title="fawcett" width="468" height="99" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1121" src="http://leweslabour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/fawcett.jpeg" /></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 15.0px 'Trebuchet MS'">On average, women earn less, own less, and are more likely to work and retire in poverty than men. The government&rsquo;s approach to cutting the deficit will widen the gap between women and men:</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 17.0px 'Trebuchet MS'; min-height: 20.0px">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 15.0px 'Trebuchet MS'">-Female unemployment is rising as jobs are cut in public services</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 15.0px 'Trebuchet MS'">-The benefits and services women rely on more are being slashed</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 15.0px 'Trebuchet MS'">-Women on low incomes are becoming poorer</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 15.0px 'Trebuchet MS'">-The pay gap looks set to widen</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 15.0px 'Trebuchet MS'">-Women&rsquo;s access to vital support services is being undermined&nbsp;</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 15.0px 'Trebuchet MS'">-Increasing numbers of women are being forced to give up work as cuts to childcare support means their jobs no longer cover the family&rsquo;s care costs</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 15.0px 'Trebuchet MS'">The government&rsquo;s approach to cutting the deficit is turning back time on women&rsquo;s equality. This can&rsquo;t go on.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 15.0px 'Trebuchet MS'">On November 19th, join us on the &lsquo;DON&rsquo;T turn back time&rsquo; March in London or host your own &lsquo;DON&rsquo;T turn back time&rsquo; tea party to help us tell David Cameron:&ldquo;DON&rsquo;T TURN BACK TIME ON WOMEN&rsquo;S EQUALITY!&rdquo;</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 15.0px 'Trebuchet MS'"><b>London: &lsquo;Don&#8217;t Turn Back Time&#8217; march and rally</b></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 15.0px 'Trebuchet MS'">Family friendly with a 1950&rsquo;s theme: dress up to send the message that women don&rsquo;t want to be catapulted back to the levels of inequality of yesteryear.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 15.0px 'Trebuchet MS'">Your costume can be as simple (maybe just a head scarf) or as complicated (think full 50&#8242;s get-up complete with rubber gloves and chains to chain yourself to the kitchen sink with!) as you like.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 15.0px 'Trebuchet MS'">Confirmed speakers : Josie Long, Comedian; Tanya Gold, journalist; Estelle Hart, NUS Women&rsquo;s Officer; Kate Smurthwaite, comedian; Heather Wakefield, UNISON National Secretary for local government; Vivienne Hayes, CEO Women&#8217;s Resource Centre; Chitra Nagarajan, Southall Black Sisters; Anna Bird, Acting Chief Executive Fawcett Society</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 15.0px 'Trebuchet MS'">More to come!</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 15.0px 'Trebuchet MS'">March Details:</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 15.0px 'Trebuchet MS'">12 noon &ndash; march congregates at Temple tube, Victoria Embankment.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 15.0px 'Trebuchet MS'">12.30 &ndash; march sets off down Embankment, across Horse Guards Avenue, down Whitehall past Downing Street.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 15.0px 'Trebuchet MS'">13.30 &ndash; march finishes with a rally on King Charles Street.</p>
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		<title>Labours Plan for Jobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 06:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lewes Labour - Campaign team</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[written by: Lewes Labour - Campaign teamThis is a really worrying time for families and businesses; struggling with higher food prices and gas bills and worried about their jobs and their children&#8217;s futures.&#160; The Tory-led Government are cutting too far and too fast and risk choking off economic recovery. Unemployment is rising again and is currently at the highest level in 17 years.&#160; One in five young people are out of work and now more women are unemployed than at any time since 1988.&#160; We need [...]48 views 
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<p><a href="http://leweslabour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/a0b51517-e236-1fb4-71ce-13e8d7a5306a.jpeg"><img alt="" title="a0b51517-e236-1fb4-71ce-13e8d7a5306a" width="300" height="102" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1109" src="http://leweslabour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/a0b51517-e236-1fb4-71ce-13e8d7a5306a-300x102.jpg" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; ">This is <u>a really worrying time for families and businesses</u>; <em>struggling with higher food prices and gas bills</em> and worried about their jobs and their children&rsquo;s futures.&nbsp;<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; " /><br />
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The Tory-led Government are cutting too far and too fast and risk choking off economic recovery. Unemployment is rising again and is currently at the highest level in 17 years.&nbsp; One in five young people are out of work and now more women are unemployed than at any time since 1988.&nbsp;<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; " /><br />
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We need to act now to show the Tory-led Government that there is another way.<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; " /><br />
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Labour has set out a clear five-point plan for jobs, to help struggling families and support small businesses.&nbsp;Our jobs plan includes:</span></p>
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<div><strong>1. A &pound;2 billion tax on bank bonuses to fund 100,000 jobs for young people and build 25,000 affordable homes</strong></div>
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<div><strong>2. Bringing forward long-term investment projects, like new school buildings</strong></div>
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<div><strong>3. Temporarily reversing the VAT rise &ndash; a &pound;450 boost for families with children</strong></div>
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<div><strong>4. A one year cut in VAT to 5% on home improvements and repairs to help small businesses</strong></div>
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<div><strong>5. A tax break for every small firm which takes on extra workers</strong></div>
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<div>Find out more about Labour&#8217;s 5 point plan <a href="http://www.labour.org.uk/plan">here</a></div>
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		<title>New Lewes/Brighton constituency is Tory Marginal with Labour in second</title>
		<link>http://leweslabour.org.uk/2011/09/new-lewesbrighton-constituency-is-tory-marginal-with-labour-in-second/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 06:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Spencer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[written by: Jonathan Spencer&#160;If the new boundary commission changes go ahead, it looks as though The proposed &#160;Lewes and East Brighton seat will be a Tory marginal based on the voting figures from the last Local elections results. On May&#8217;s results in wards included in the new seat: Con 13700, Labour 9000, LibDems 6500, Greens 5800, so Labour become the main challengers and if you want to defeat the Tories then you will need to vote Labour. This will be a massive turn [...]115 views 
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<p><a data-mce-href="http://leweslabour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/david-cameron-main-sifr-168072040.jpg" href="http://leweslabour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/david-cameron-main-sifr-168072040.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1061" title="david-cameron-main-sifr-168072040" alt="" width="300" height="197" data-mce-src="http://leweslabour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/david-cameron-main-sifr-168072040-300x197.jpg" src="http://leweslabour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/david-cameron-main-sifr-168072040-300x197.jpg" /></a>&nbsp;If the new boundary commission changes go ahead, it looks as though The proposed &nbsp;Lewes and East Brighton seat will be a Tory marginal based on the voting figures from the last Local elections results.</p>
<p>On May&#8217;s results in wards included in the new seat:</p>
<p>Con 13700,</p>
<p>Labour 9000,</p>
<p>LibDems 6500,</p>
<p>Greens 5800,</p>
<p>so Labour become the main challengers and if you want to defeat the Tories then you will need to vote Labour. This will be a massive turn around for many in the Lewes section of this seat. Will Norman Baker be standing in the hope to maintain his position or will ge go elsewhere. &nbsp;The greens who have made inroads at the local elections will be divided and pushed to the bottom. &nbsp;Decisions will have to be made as they have been made in the past by other voters on who exactly you want or don&#8217;t want to represent you and govern the country.</p>
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