Roxanne Egan - Thornbury and Yate Constituency

What we do

We are organised into four local parties: Boyd Valley, Frampton Cotterell, Thornbury and Severnvale, and Yate and Sodbury. These parties organise their members in the centre and three sides of the constituency, and send delegates and funds to the Constituency Labour Party (CLP) , and the South Gloucestershire Local Government Committee. We also send delegates to the Annual Conference and the Regional Conference and are concerned with the development of national, regional and district Labour party policies. Our basic activity is to campaign for the election and support of councillors, members of Parliament and members of the European Parliament. To this end we hold monthly meetings both locally and at constituency level. We also run street stalls and events such as barn dances, barbeques and dinners.

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Finding out some of what the Labour Government did for the last 13 years.
 
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Re-elect a Labour Government for a better quality of life.

Creating Safer, Cleaner, Greener and Stronger Communities.

We are a party fighting for the future of the next generation. 

Our vision - to build on Labour's successes : we want Britain by 2015 to be even fairer, greener, more prosperous and democratic. 

Our task -  to shape the future around a modern progressive agenda It is about driving forward reforms, building lasting change - and a better society on the foundations carefully laid over the last decade.

Maintaining Labour's family friendly policies

Protecting the well-being of children and young people, and the health of families against any Public Service cuts.

Protecting the vulnerable.

Developing better protection for women and children against domestic violence and abuse.

Building on Labour's preventative health care.

Reducing dependency on drugs, tobacco and alcohol, and providing better sports and social amenities.

Combating anti-social behaviour.

Supporting Labour's work on community and neighbourhood policing, and encouraging vibrant local democracy.

Driving down the rate of secondary infections.

Raising cleanliness and hygiene standards in local schools, hospitals and streets.

Developing sustainable communities.

Stabilising the economy.

By rapid response to the banking crisis and utilising the business-led Regional Development Agencies for administering funds to local communities.

Tackling anti-social behaviour.

By working together with other agencies including the police, the numbers of victims of all crime have been significantly reduced.

Creating better health and care provision.

By developing a National Care Service to parallel the NHS, and promoting greater awareness of strokes, cancer and heart disease
 

This was extracted from our 2010 General Election Campaign - to view this leaflet click the icon below.

Leaflet.

Thornbury and Yate (4646) CLP

www.thornburyandyatelabourparty.org

Labour has a proud record on animal welfare. Over the past 12 years, we have introduced laws which banned cruel and unethical practices such as drift net fishing and fur farming, set minimum standards for animal welfare, banned the testing of cosmetics, alcohol and tobacco on animals, set tougher sentences for crimes of cruelty against animals and gave the Commons a vote on fox hunting, which resulted in the practice being banned.

With the passing of the Animal Welfare Act 2006, Labour put into law the most fundamental piece of animal welfare

legislation for nearly a century. The act introduced a new duty of care on people to ensure the needs of any animal for which they are responsible; while creating a new offence of failing to provide for the needs of an animal in your care. The new laws place more emphasis on owners and keepers who now need to

understand their responsibilities and take all reasonable steps to provide for the needs of their animals.

While we have achieved a lot, we also recognise that it is vital that we look to ensure that the measures we have put in place are rigorously enforced, and that we continue to protect the rights of animals. We will continue seeking to win domestic and international support for further measures which protect the well being of animals in Britain and around the world. We must tackle cruelty head on, working to ensure that cruel and illegal practices are stamped out.

• Banned fox hunting.

• Banned fur farming and worked in Europe to ban imports of cat and dog fur into the EU.
   
• Banned driftnet fishing which protects dolphins, turtles and other animals including sea birds.
   
• Banned testing cosmetics, toiletries, alcohol and tobacco on animals.
   
• Since 1997 we have refused to license any testing on great apes
   
• Established the National Centre for the Replacement, Reduction and Refinement of Animals in Research which provides research into alternatives to animal testing.
   
• Secured better welfare standards at a European level for battery hens and meat chicken
   
• Tightened up rules on the transport of live animals across Europe.
   
• Secured an EU-wide ban on the trade in seal fur.
   
• Increased prison sentences for wildlife crime.
   
• Halted the decline in farmland birds, while increasing rare and woodland bird populations.
   
• Introduced a new duty of care on those who keep animals to ensure the needs of animals for which they
  are responsible are met; creating a new criminal offence of failing to provide for the needs of an animal.
   
• Introduced pet passports allowing you to take your pet abroad in the EU without the need for quarantine.

The Conservatives are committed to giving the Commons a free vote to repeal the ban on fox hunting - David Cameron has made clear that he personally opposes the ban and wants to see it scrapped!

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