Orpington Labour Party

At our May meeting, members of Orpington Labour Party agreed to submit six amendments to the ‘Partnership in Power’ consultation documents. These amendments will be debated at the National Policy Forum and if adopted should be endorsed at the Labour Party Conference in the autumn.

Michael Meacher gave this year’s Ron Huzzard Memorial Lecture on the subject of Climate Change.

It is estimated that 300,000 women are raped or subjected to a serious sexual assault every year. Conviction rates for attackers have fallen from 33 per cent in the 1970s to around 5 per cent today. Yet funding for Rape Crisis centres is falling and centres are closing. Please sign the e-petition at the Downing Street web site to press for better funding.

Age Concern have a petition around the decision of Bromley Primary Care Trust not to cut the nails of people with healthy feet. You can contact Age Concern on 020 8315 1850 to sign the petition or log your views with the Public Relations Manager at Bassetts House on 01689 853339.

The Post Office public consultation proposes closing three post offices in Orpington. You can help save them by sending in your comments.

The Labour government’s massive injection of much needed resources into the NHS and the introduction of targets in health care standards have undoubtably been successful. The cut in waiting times has been dramatic and must have led to the saving of life. However such successes not only have to be balanced by problems occuring afterwards, and the distortions in some other treatments because of this, but also by the fact that in many cases the quality of treatment is still at the bottom of a Euro-comparison list.