Our November Discussion Meeting

       

               DRONFIELD LABOUR PARTY DISCUSSION MEETING

TOPIC :           THE LABOUR PARTY AND BREXIT

SPEAKER :      PAUL BLOMFIELD MP, SHADOW BREXIT MINISTER

TIME :              8pm to 9.15pm.

DATE :            SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11th

VENUE :         CONTACT CLUB, SNAPE HILL LANE, DRONFIELD, S18 2GJ.

Since 2010 Paul has been the Labour MP for Sheffield Central. Increasing his majority from only 165 to a massive 27,748 in two successive contests. He is one of Labour's Shadow Brexit Ministers (for Exiting the European Union) working closely with Labour's main spokesperson on the issue - Keir Starmer. There is an important link here to a key recent article he wrote on the Brexit situation -  https://www.paulblomfield.co.uk/european_union/

He was Chair of the Sheffield District Labour Party from 1993 to 2009. Then when he initially moved to parliament he became the Private Parliamentary Secretary to the Shadow Leader of the Commons. A position which gives him a good understanding of the parliamentary processes relevant to any form of Brexit Procedures. He was also the Private Parliamentary Secretary to the Shadow Foreign Secretary.

He was named Citizens' Advice MP of the Year in 2014 for his work on the regulation of payday lenders and is Secretary of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Debt and Personal Finance. He is also Secretary of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Universities and Chair of the All-Party Group for Students.

Our October Discussion Meeting

                 DRONFIELD LABOUR PARTY DISCUSSION MEETING

TOPIC :            REPORTS FROM THE LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE

SPEAKERS :   CHRIS PEACE and PAUL SCARROTT.

TIME :               8pm to 9.15pm.

DATE :             SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14th,

VENUE :          CONTACT CLUB, SNAPE HILL LANE, DRONFIELD, S18 2GJ.



Chris Peace is Labour's Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for North East Derbyshire and attended the recent Labour Party Conference in that capacity. In addition to attending formal conference proceedings whenever possible, she was also involved in a wide range of fringe activities. She will, therefore, give her impressions of what happened overall and of the direction in which Labour are moving, having met with Jeremy Corbyn to discuss the situation in North East Derbyshire. She is a Sheffield City Councillor for Gleadless Valley and lives within easy reach of NE Derbyshire, making very full use of the opportunities this provides. She is a former legal aid lawyer and campaigns for bodies such as Youth Justice, Access to Justice and the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign.



Paul Scarrott attended the recent Labour Party Conference as delegate on behalf of the Sheffield Heeley Constituency Labour Party and also has past experiences in that capacity. He is his Constituency's Political Education Officer. He has been a member of the Labour Party since the early 1980s. At the time of the Iraq war he chaired both Sheffield CND and Sheffield Stop The War. He has been a leading activist with Unite Against Fascism since 2003 and has spoken at numerous Labour meetings as a spokesperson for the Labour Assembly Against Austerity. At our last meeting in September he set the scene for the then coming events at Conference. He will now report on the decisions that were made and their potential impact.