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An open letter to the residents of Nether Edge ward
Labour Party candidate for Nether Edge ward Mohammad Maroof and Cllr Nikki Bond with Nighat Khan at the launch of Thalassemia South Yorkshire. Maroof said "We are grateful to Nighat Khan and her team who have taken brave steps to address an issue which needs urgent attention and awareness. I am thankful to Nether Edge labour councillors who allocated funding from ward pot and took great interest in the issue."
I am truly delighted that I have been selected to be your Labour Party candidate for the Nether Edge ward at the local elections on 7th May. I thank you for the warm welcome that you have shown me on your doorstep. If I have not already spoken with you I look forward to seeing you soon.
n letter to the residents of Nether Edge ward
I have lived with my family in Nether Edge since 1999 where I also used to have my previous business offering legal advice and support. For four years I was a councillor for Central ward fighting against this Tory / Lib Dem government through very difficult times. We have seen the damage that they have done to us with their bedroom tax and vicious cuts to our services. Their cruel immigration controls have hit our families by bringing in an £18,600 minimum threshold for spouses and then taking away the appeal
Mohammad Maroof Labour Party candidate for Nether Edge Ward with Paul Blomfield MP and Labour Party activist Mohammad Akbar, Kaltun Elmi and Graham Cole taking Labour Party message to the residents of Nether Edge who will elect their councillor and MP on May 7th.
right for family visitors. Under this government poor people have been made even poorer while the very
t I haverich been selected to beTheyour Labour Party candidate forordinary the Nether Edge have grown even richer. Tories are the party of the privileged while people like us
have been left to struggle. ons on 7th May. I thank you for the warm welcome that you have shown me on Now we have an opportunity to make a real change to our lives. With a Labour government we can
not already spoken with you I look forward seeing soon.with charges and start to rebuild our country. Our NHS will not be left to to fade away intoyou privatisation
Minimum Wage Rises To £6.70
further cuts but will be properly funded along with social care for our old folks. Our young people will not
be burdened with huge debts for their tuition fees and will haveto new opportunities for training,business mily in Nether Edge since 1999 where I also used have my previous apprenticeships and jobs. The rich will be made to take more of the burden through a mansion tax and
d support. For four I was a councillor forcountry, Central ward this a higher income taxyears rate back up to 50%. It will be a fairer not one that fighting serves onlyagainst the rich and
The national minimum wage is to increase by 20p an hour to £6.70, the biggest real-terms rise in seven years, the government has announced. More than 1.4 million low paid workers will benefit from the 3% hike, while rates for younger workers and apprentices will also go up - all from October. The hourly rate for 18 to 20-year-olds will go up from £5.13 to £5.30 (3%) and by 8p to £3.87 for 16 and 17-year-olds (2%). “We know there is a persistent problem with low pay in some sectors of the economy, and areas of the UK. The minimum wage system is necessary and right, but is a minimum by definition” Business Secretary Vince Cable. Prime Minister David Cameron said: “At the heart of our long-term economic plan for Britain is a simple idea - that those who put in, should get out, that hard work is really rewarded, that the benefits of recovery are truly national. That’s what today’s announcement is all about, saying
the powerful. ment through very difficult times. We have seen the damage that they have done As your new Labour councillor I will do my part to support you. With a Labour council and a Labour
m tax and vicious totoour services. Their cruel controlsand have hit government wecuts will start change people’ s lives for the better,immigration strengthening communities helping
small businesses, families, children and our elderly. I hope you will be able to join me by giving me your g in an £18,600 minimum threshold for spouses and then taking away the appeal vote and also by voting for Paul Blomfield, your hard working and widely respected Member of
Together wepoor can make a real difference. Under Parliament. this government people have been made even poorer while the very Ê
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bs. The rich will be made to take more of the burden through a mansion tax and
to hardworking taxpayers, this is a government that is on your side.” But TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady said: ”With one in five workers getting less than a living wage, this is nowhere near enough to end in-work poverty.” “This 20p rise falls far short of the £7 minimum wage which George Osborne promised over a year ago. Ministers have misled working families who have been left worse off” Shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna.
e back up to 50%. It will be a fairer country, not one that serves only the rich and
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Households are facing a postcode lottery when it comes to getting the fastest broadband speeds, new research shows. A survey of the UK’s very quickest average connections also shows the north of England enjoying twice as many speedy streets as the south. Superfast broadband is now available to more than three quarters of the UK, but nearly a third don’t realise they can get it. The data, sourced from a million speed tests
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