36 flights a day between Heathrow and Manchester! Madness! That was for me the most stocking part of an article in today’s Guardian about Tory Party transport plans. Factor in the other London airports and the total is much higher (Manchester Airport flight search here - type ‘LON’ as the code to get all London

Release - Bury Labour Group Leader joins Green Party Mark Ereira-Guyer, long standing St Edmundsbury councillor and current leader of the Labour group, has resigned from the Labour Party in dismay at the Government decision to give the go-ahead to another runway at Heathrow, and has applied to join the Green Party. Mark said " The vast environmental changes wrought by humanity now threaten us in a...

The Labour Party has selected Liverpool, Manchester and Bournemouth as the host cities for its annual conferences from 2011-2014. The decision provides for a broadening of the Labour Party's conference venues. After being the first political party to hold its conference in Manchester, Labour will break new ground when its Annual Conference visits Liverpool in 2011. Labour's Annual Confer...

It looks like the proposed ID card scheme is dead in the water. Not so much because of the UK government's climbdown yesterday on making ID cards compulsory for pilots and airside workers at Manchester and London City airports, but because the Labour Party are unlikely to be in government long enough to implement it. Foreign nationals living and working in the UK will be the only group of people w...

A congestion tax should be charged on passengers and airlines that use Heathrow and Gatwick, UK regional airports have told the government

Another fantastic step for the politics of Northern Ireland took place today. The Labour Party has formally organised at last. (Belfast Telegraph: Labour Party to become official party in Northern Ireland) Congratulations to all those who have campaigned and argued for this over the years, finally overcoming the resistance there has been in the party. Now the Labour URL, labour.org.uk, is finally ...

Manchester University Labour Club and Manchester Withington candidate, Lucy Powell, have got Eddie to come up North and speak at the University of Manchester about his opinions on politics, modern society and his proud support for the Labour Party. This will be a great chance to get together, talk politics and have a bit of fun as well! Wine and refreshments will be on sale and this even...

Labour produced this nice little YouTube video to help campaign for the congestion charge in Manchester. I like it. The position of the Manchester Green Party seemed a little half hearted to me - but then they're closer to detail so they may have a point. Manchester Green Party Chair Brian Candeland said: "We recognise a number of flaws in the package, and would have preferred a set of proposals w...

I'm told the Hulme Labour branch in Manchester has been suspended. Somthing to do with delivering Eid cards. Can that be right? All three councillors in Hulme are Labour. In this May's elections the party made a gain from the Greens in the ward. Hulme is in the Manchester Central constituency of...

Just like an airline official gets monstered by angry passengers at an airport check-in when their flight is delayed, Gordon Brown has been harangued by Labour MPs on Heathrow's third runway. The difference, however, is that those MPs who challenged the Prime Minister at a Parliamentary Labour Party meeting want the go-ahead for Heathrow expansion further delayed or even cancelled. Four ...