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 MoveIt article: Feb 2005 |
Healthy kids, healthy futureIt is a time honoured question for all parents – how to keep the kids occupied, safe and out of mischief during the school holidays. That is why I organised free swimming for all Under 16 school children during the February half-term and Easter holidays through the Move It project. I was delighted to be informed yesterday by Vale Farm pool that over 2000 kids had taken advantage of their swim cards last week. I hope the figure will increase over the Easter...
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| Asian Voice Article June 2003: Brent Council and Equality |
Regular readers of Asian Voice will know that despite being a Brent MP I have a not entirely uncritical relationship with the local council. Old fashioned I may be but I believe in giving both praise and blame where and when it is due. That is why I could not allow Chuni Chavda’s accusations about Brent’s Equality record to go unchallenged. I have known Chuni since his days as a Conservative councillor and have a strange fondness for him. He has an interesting...
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| Employment article March 2005 |
When I first became MP for Brent North in 1997 I said that jobs and unemployment would be a priority for me and for people in Brent North. That is why I was so pleased to read the new official figures showing there are 330,000 more people in London in work now compared to 1997. In Brent North, 580 young people have found work through the New Deal, cutting local long-term youth unemployment by 65 per cent. Adult long-term unemployment has been slashed by 81 per cent. We all remember when un...
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| Asian Voice article October 2005: Safer Neighbourhoods |
Encouraging active citizenship is a key part of the government’s respect agenda, as such I was pleased to be involved in SEWA week last month. As the Prime Minister stated in his conference speech the government believes wholeheartedly in “tolerance and respect, in strong communities standing by and standing up for the weak, the sick the helpless” and in this spirit I joined around thirty young people in painting the fence at St. Luke’s hospice in my constituency. Events ...
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| Holocaust Memorial Day 27th January 2005 |
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to relive it"
George SantayanaOn January 27th schools, universities and local communities throughout the country will mark Britain’s fifth Holocaust Memorial Day remembering the millions of victims murdered by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust. This year provides us with a unique opportunity for remembrance as it is the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War and the day will mark the 60th anniversary of the li...
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| Asian Voice Article Feb 2005: care for pensioners |
One of the challenges facing the Hindu community in the next 10 years is how to ensure an old age with dignity. It is all too easy to accept traditional wisdom that Hindu culture places great importance of extended family and respect for parents and grandparents. The reality is more complex than that. Extended family care and support structures were based on a very different rural way of living to the urban 21st century high pressure, high technology, high mobility employment of today. As those ...
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| Asian Voice Article December 2004 |
There are two old sayings that are well known by politicians: "No smoke without fire" and "Mud sticks". Few know better than a politician that the falsehoods and innuendos which are sometimes spread by opponents and the media, are almost impossible to fight. Over time politicians have come up with two counter sayings as rules of engagement to combat these sorts of slur: "Don't give the story legs", they say and "Starve it of oxygen". The idea is that i...
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| September 2004 Sudbury Court Courier Article: Fireworks |
The season for fireworks is upon us again but this year with a difference: it begins alongside the new restrictions brought in by the Control of Fireworks Act. As many of you will be aware, this is a piece of legislation which means a great deal to me. It seems only yesterday when a constituent came to surgery with a bag of firework debris that had rained down into her garden. Since then I have worked to bring this new fireworks legislation into being: meeting with the Prime Minister...
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| Letter to the times: Iraq |
FAO Letters page editorThe Times BY FAX 19th November 2003 Dear Sir, A review of the military and political strategy for Iraq will be at the top of the Bush Blair agenda for today. It should not be. It is a financial strategy that is of greatest concern and importance to the Iraqi people. 21 000 million US dollars is the Paris club estimate of Iraq’s outstanding debt. The US and the UK agree that a major programme of debt cancellation and debt re...
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| Asian Voice article November 2004 - Neasden Mandir |
The Swaminarayan Mandir is the spiritual home for thousands of Hindus throughout Britain who know it as a place of spiritual devotion, service to humanity, and peace. The Temple in Neasden is rightly known as one of the most beautiful buildings in the United Kingdom. Tragically it has now been the subject of one of the ugliest and most vile calumnies it is possible to imagine. At a hearing of the Home Affairs Select Committee on the 16th November one of the witnesses, a Mr. Jagdeesh Singh from t...
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| Why voting matters - December 2004 |
I am sure that, like me, many of you have been transfixed by the pictures from the Ukraine in recent days. The sight of thousands of people on the streets, protesting to protect their basic democratic rights, is thought provoking and heartening. Those people have stayed in the centre of Kiev night after night in the freezing cold because they believe in democracy and they are determined that their votes will count. They are engaged in the political process in a way unimaginable to many peo...
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| ePolitixplus article on Cash Machines |
View from ... Westminster
Labour MP for Brent North and financial services campaigner, Barry Gardiner MP, writes exclusively for ePolitixPlus on financial social exclusion and the need for transparency in financial services
Money breeds money. Or so the saying goes. Nobody understands this better than they do in the financial services industry where money now seems to breed transaction fees. Since February when I tabled an adjournment debate on fee charging in the credit ca...
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| Kingsbury Chronicle Iraq article |
Last week in the House of Commons I called for the cancellation of Iraq's sovereign debt. Whilst everyone is agreed that a new security and political strategy is required by Britain and America to hasten peace in Iraq; the issue that most Iraqi's are concerned about is their financial future. Saddam Hussein built up 21 thousand million dollars of debt in financing his tyranny. Private banks, lent an estimated further 4 thousand million dollars, and they are now all lining up asking when ...
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| Asian Voice article September 2004: London's Olympic Bid |
Leap Years bring many good things: Olympic Games, proposals of marriage and this year, for once, a Janmashtamy that fell on a day when parliament was actually sitting. For the first time ever we celebrated the birth of Krishna in the mother of parliaments. Over 400 people crowded in to hear a programme of music and dance – not to mention a speech or two from various politicians!Tony McNulty did a wonderful job as host and master of ceremonies and Lord Krishna clearly appreciated it as a fe...
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| Ocotber 2004 Asian Voice Article |
Stop! Think carefully about your fireworks party this year. New £80 fixed penalty notices can now be given out to anyone setting off a firework after 11 o’clock at night. Yes, the season for fireworks is upon us again and I want everyone to enjoy it but this year it comes with new restrictions brought in by the Control of Fireworks Act. As many of you will be aware, this is a piece of legislation which means a great deal to me. It seems only yesterday when a constituent came to...
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| GG2 article: Manmohan Singh |
Agile and dextrous the figure of Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India, did not so much stride into the room as alight upon it like a kingfisher, the Cambridge Blue of his turban flashing in contrast to his elegant grey suit. Private courtesies were brief – our previous meeting and the value he placed on Labour Friends of India – but then to business. His theme was a familiar one: “We must walk on two legs.” The original architect of economic liberalisation in the early...
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| Asian Voice Article November 2005: Pakistan Earthquake |
Some people enjoy helping others. I think of the 30 young people I had the privilege to join in the SEWA week last month. No doubt all of us had other things we could have done on a Sunday morning instead of painting the fence at St. Luke’s Hospice. But the fence needed painting and in fact we all had a great time. It wasn’t just that we engaged in a lot of banter and backchat. What we enjoyed was more than just that. It was working together for others in need. Nothing pious here; ju...
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| 3rd November 2004 - Fireworks article |
Stop! Think carefully about your fireworks party this year. New £80 fixed penalty notices can now be given out to anyone setting off a firework after 11 o’clock at night. Yes, the season for fireworks is upon us again and I want everyone to enjoy it but this year it comes with new restrictions brought in by the Control of Fireworks Act. As many of you will be aware, this is a piece of legislation which means a great deal to me. It seems only yesterday when a constituent came to...
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| The Mad, Bad and Sad |
It is often remarked that there are only three groups of people excluded from voting in the United Kingdom: convicted criminals, the mentally insane and members of the House of Lords. So it is the bad and the mad and, some would say, the sad. Occasionally the sad and the mad appear to get mixed up. I used to carry around with me the obituary of Brinsley Le Poer Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty, as a clincher against those who argued that there was no need to refo...
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