Abbey Green
The City Independent Group on Stoke-on-Trent City Council have changed their leadership team as the also look to swell their numbers. Cllr Brian Ward is to remain as Group Leader but Cllr Dave Conway has been voted in as Deputy Group Leader. Cllr Conway replaces Cllr Terry Follows who has stepped down to take a break from leadership duties. The CIG also has the opportunity to swell their number in the wake of losing 3 of their members, Derek Capey, Ian Mitchell and Ann James at the recent local
Mike Coleman & Alby Walker Interviews Now On-line Due to a technical issue we were originally unable to get the interview with Mike Coleman online. We have now rectified this. Alby Walker is a busy guy. He is contesting both the General and Local Elections as an Independent Candidate. He is likely to face opposition from his former colleagues in the British National Party.
Mark Fisher MP has been serving the constituency of Stoke-on-Trent Central for 27 years now. In the past year he has had to endure one of the most difficult period's in our Country's political history due to the public outcry at the MPs expense scandal. But, Mark is fiercely proud of what he and the Labour Party have achieved in his time in Parliament.
The British National Party has launched it's 2010 General Election Campaign here in Stoke-on-Trent. At a press conference in Meir, Stoke-on-Trent, Party Leader Nick Griffin addressed his party faithful and the assembled media and told them that his party's campaign demanded the withdrawal of British troops from Afghanistan and a halt to immigration.
Alby Walker's decision to quit as Leader of the BNP and to not stand for election in 2010, has come as a massive shock to me. This was out of the blue and totally unexpected. Like others I had heard the rumours of unrest in the BNP Group, but in the meetings I observed, the BNP always seemed as one.
I suppose you could say it hasn’t been the easiest time lately for Labour Party activists in Stoke-on-Trent. The departure of Cllr Dave Conway, the comings and goings of Cllr Joan Bell and Cllr Joy Garner plus Mike Barnes and the ‘Reportergate’ scandal have set the party adrift on stormy seas. At grass roots level there is the stand off between Stoke Central and the City Party and the constant accusations that the Labour Party is run by the Regional Office West Midlands.
