Lesterjholloway

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• Lords Lobbied Over Equalities Vote

  

  Ethnic Minority Liberal Democrats are lobbying the House of Lords ahead of a vote on an important part of Britain’s equalities laws which the government want... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Campaign Urges MPs to Save Britain’s Equalities Mission Statement

  

  Campaigners outraged at government plans to scrap a key feature of equality law have launched a campaign to lobby MPs.The public service union PCS has begun a... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• No Excuse Not to Tackle Prepayment Meter Charges on the Poor

  

  I took the opportunity on Saturday to question Ed Davey, the energy secretary, on the matter of prepayment meters ripping off the poorest in society and... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Margaret Thatcher: Class Warrior

  

  Acres of newsprint, hours of broadcast time and unimaginable amounts of online words have already been devoted to the controversial legacy of Margaret... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• The Doll That Won’t Go Away

  

  It’s been a long time since I’ve heard of gollywog dolls. The last time was in 2011 when I organised a small protest in Sutton against a shop that refused to... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Tackling Bullying in the Media Will Benefit Newspapers as Well as Staff

  

  It was a pretty busy day on Saturday, where I also spoke at the National Union of Journalist’s Black Members Council on the subject of bullying in the media,... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Winning in Multicultural London

  

  I was pleased to address the Lib Dems London regional conference on Saturday in Docklands, talking about ‘changing demographics’ in the capital. Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Whatever the Truth Over Farage N-word Claims, He Needs to Get UKIP’s House in...

  

  Tory Euro MP Sajjad Karim has resurrected old claims against UKIP leader Nigel Farage. It is alleged by UKIP founder Alan Sked that Farage used the n-word in a... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Book Now for Lib Dem Race Equality Conference with Vince Cable

  

  Book now for the Ethnic Minority Liberal Democrats (EMLD) and Social Liberal Forum (SLF) conference on race equality with guest speaker Vince Cable.The... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Triple Whammy for Workers Rights as Coalition Limit Compensation Payments

  

  The Coalition really don’t like employees taking action against their bosses, do they? Not content with introducing a £250 fee to take out an Employment... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Clegg Should Ditch Illiberal Immigration Bond

  

  In just over two years Nick Clegg has gone from supporting an amnesty for asylum seekers to imposing £1,000 immigration bonds, a sure sign that his... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Press Regulation Deal Fails to Tackle Demonisation of Communities

  

  I wrote last December about the need to regulate against press racism so its’ disappointing to see that the issues is still being largely ignored by MPs. Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Has George Osborne Already Ditched Equality Impact Assessments?

  

  Has George Osborne forgotten to do an Equality Impact Assessment on his budget again?The chancellor was criticised by the Equality and Human Rights Commission... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• An Uplifting Saturday

  

  I was delighted to address a Saturday class at the Westside Young Leaders Academy in Willesden yesterday. I spoke about the media and fielded a great deal of... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Boris Scrapping Operation Trident Will Cost Lives

  

  Say what you like about Ken Livingstone at least he had the good sense to realise that London’s multicultural city demands a progressive approach to policing. Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Labour’s Ex-student Leader Kat Fletcher Ran a Troubled Ship at the NUS

  

  Interesting to see former National Union of Students president Kat Fletcher pop up as a Labour candidate in a council byelection.Not because she’s running for... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Secret Courts Will Further Undermine Confidence in the Criminal Justice System

  

  I welcome the Liberal Democrats’ spring conference voting overwhelmingly to condemn the Government plan to introduce ‘secret courts’ and is saddened by the... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Peckham Entrepreneur Lights up Lib Dem Conference Fringe

  

  Ethnic Minority Liberal Democrats held the first of our three fringe meetings at Lib Dem conference in Brighton last night. The star speaker was Roger Lynch, a... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Lib Dems Unite to Save Equalities Mission Statement

  

  Ethnic Minority Liberal Democrats (EMLD) have joined forces with the Liberal Democrat Disability Association (LDDA) to submit a motion to spring conference... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Lords Win Battle to Save Equalities Mission Statement

  

  The campaign to save an equality law enshrining Britain’s commitment to work towards the elimination of racism received a boost this week when the coalition... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY