Articles by Andy Love MP
Andy Love MP
A cut too far for policing
Today, the Labour Party has launched an interactive map showing local police job losses resulting from the Tory-led Government's 20% police cuts.As you can see, the Metropolitan Police - which covers Edmonton - has already announced 2,337 job cuts that will take place over a timescale of three years, taking [...]
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Andy Love MP
More pence on your pint
Have you noticed your pint going up in price recently? Firstly there was the VAT rise in January, which saw an extra 6p added to the price of a pint and then at the end of March, the 7.2% increase in alcohol duty added on another 4p. I know beer [...]
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Andy Love MP
A day at North Mid
Yesterday I spent the majority of the day at the North Middlesex University Hospital, not as a patient (I wasn't ill, thankfully), but as an observer, work-shadowing in a number of different departments.It's been a year since the £130 million new facility opened so it was a great opportunity for [...]
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Andy Love MP
Black Wednesday
Yesterday is being termed as "Black Wednesday" for families - the day the Government introduced cuts to tax credits, childcare support and child benefit that will only add to the squeeze that low and middle income families are already feeling thanks to January's 2.5% VAT increase and the affects of [...]
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Funding makes the world go round
The Lloyds TSB Foundation wrote to me recently to let me know about the £194,800 it had invested in local community groups in 2010.The grants, which ranged from £15,000 to £36,300, were given to nine charities serving Edmonton and the Enfield area, including the Enfield Women's Centre, Crossroads Care Enfield, [...]
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Andy Love MP
Birth weight is far more than just a number
I was recently provided with some particularly alarming statistics on low birth weight babies. After yesterday's post on child poverty I'm sure you're all thinking that it's always doom and gloom around here but I can't help but want to desperately draw people's attention to these figures so that appropriate [...]
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Andy Love MP
I'm part of the YES! campaign
Did you see me on Saturday at Edmonton Green? I was the one hassling people into voting in favour of switching our voting system from First-Past-the-Post to the Alternative Vote in the referendum on 5th May. I know there are no local elections in London this year so you're probably [...]
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What percentage do we have to reach before the Government will act?
Would it surprise you to know that 45% of children in Edmonton are living below the poverty line, making Edmonton the joint seventh worst constituency for child poverty in the whole of England? Enfield as a borough doesn't fair much better - 37% of children live in poverty making it [...]
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I know there aren't elephants in Edmonton, but
With so many other concerns, people perhaps don't have time to worry about illegal animal trade in far flung places, but I do get a lot of letter from constituents who are concerned a great deal about animal welfare so this is a post for them. A recent Ipsos MORI [...]
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Andy Love MP
A half victory for the Education Maintenance Allowance
I've written before about the importance of keeping EMA. In simple terms, it's a small but vital weekly fund available to young people from low income families to enable them to afford the associated costs of staying on in education after 16. EMA was on that long list of things [...]
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Under pressure
As anyone who's had their blood pressure knows, it's very quick and absolutely 100% painless. But for some reason we seem to put off having it done. However, our aversion to having our blood pressure taken means that we're putting ourselves at risk of having a stroke. I'm an [...]
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When the flagship policy fails
Yesterday I managed to sneak in the very last question before we ran out of time in the Business, Innovation and Skills questions in the House of Commons.We had been told the previous day by Treasury officials that the Government's flagship policy on employment and small businesses - the national [...]
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Behind closed doors
I've written before about my efforts to ensure that public arrest warrants can be issued as smoothly as possible in universal jurisdiction cases. Yesterday I spoke in a debate in the House of Commons, with a subsequent vote, that attempted to make an amendment to the Government's proposals that would [...]
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All together for the NHS
Last week I attended a TUC event in Parliament encouraging everybody to stand together for public services and specifically for the NHS. You can see me in the photo on the left - big pink hands and all - supporting the cause with Frances O'Grady, TUC Deputy General Secretary. It [...]
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One positive in the Budget - not a gain, but not a cut
You're no doubt sick of me going on about the Budget now, but I did want to draw attention to a small victory. Last Wednesday, the Chancellor announced that he would not abolish Community Investment Tax Relief, despite being advised by the Office of Tax Simplification to scrap it. I [...]
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Just call me 'blogger of the year'!
In case you still can't get enough of me after reading this blog, I've recently started blogging over at the Enfield Independent's website as well. Inevitably there's likely to be some repetition between the two blogs, but if you do log on, let me know what you think (there's a [...]
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What the Chancellor didn't say
It's only after analysing the finer details of the full Budget report and all the changes that Chancellor George Osborne wasn't prepared to say when everyone was watching, but instead hid in a long written document (perhaps in that hope that nobody would notice), that we can see who's really [...]
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A different view of the sewage works
Here's an additional photo I forgot to add to my last post on my Deephams visit. I never thought I'd talk about sewage in artistic terms but I think this fish eye panoramic photo would certainly fall into the artistic category.In the foreground you can see work underway to [...]
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Deep within Deephams
I'd like to talk about sewage for a bit. Don't fear, I won't go into graphic detail. Even though I did have to get booted and hard-hatted for my recent visit to Deephams sewage treatment works on Picketts Lock Lane, I didn't have any close encounters of the unmentionable [...]
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The future carpenters of Enfield
Last Monday morning I went along to construction company Barclay Brothers on Nags Head Road to present awards to two apprentices, Scott Lewis and Charlie Connell. Both the apprentices are studying at Hertford Regional College while working alongside six other Enfield apprentices at Barclay Bros. The Construction Awards Alliance [...]
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