KIRKDALE BY-ELECTION While we are disappointed not to have gained more votes in the Kirkdale by-election, this is still a positive result that gives hope to the people of Kirkdale that we can begin to change things in our community…
It’s time for some new politics in Liverpool Politics is about people. Giving them a voice. Representing their interests. Bringing them together to make a difference in our communities. Beacon Liverpool originally started as a platform to share ideas and…
Liverpool City Council – a failure of municipal Labourism As Beacon has previously reported, the latest round of cuts approved by Liverpool’s Labour council brings the total cut from the council’s budget since 2010 up to a massive £450million. This…
No Cuts Liverpool Prior to its recent Budget meeting on 3rd March, Liverpool City Council has undertaken a public consultation into its 2021/22 budget, providing the people of Liverpool with the opportunity to feed into the debate on where £15.4million…
Once More, “We are not Labour’s battleground…” Foreseeing the almost inevitable fallout from the Labour Party’s seemingly endless internal battles, four months ago Beacon wrote: As we go into the next phase of our public health crisis, facing twin economic…
City State Devolution not more flag waving nationalism When Boris Johnson expelled 21 MPs in September 2019 and then, a few months later, drove a “Get Brexit Done” bulldozer through the northern post industrial Red Wall, the Tory party’s position…
Building an Infrastructure of Dissent The last blog hosted by Beacon focussed on what has been happening recently in our schools and concluded that education is important for us all, always, not just during a pandemic. That’s hard to disagree…
Education is important for us all, always, not just during a pandemic Education has been at the centre of the Covid-19 storm. Teachers, assistants, others who support work in schools have all been compromised by the inability of the Government…
National, local and social media platforms are buzzing with news of the arrest of Liverpool’s elected City Mayor. All and sundry, from the informed and misinformed to the mischievous and malicious are taking the opportunity to furnish us with their…
As politicians consider additional regional and localised restrictions, and the voices in favour of another “lockdown” grow ever louder, who is speaking out for us? Who is organising us?
