Stewart Arnold Picture: Robbie MacDonald Yorkshire Party Leader Stewart Arnold has spoken of the importance of the Party fielding candidates if European Parliamentary elections are held in the UK in May because of the Government’s “shambolic” handling of Brexit. “These elections are important to Yorkshire […]
Monthly archives: February 2019
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Councillor Mike Jordan’s determination to fight for a better deal for his Selby constituents is underlined in his latest leaflet to local electors. “For years, Yorkshire has been held back as a result of policy decisions made in Westminster. Our schools receive less funding, resulting in poorer outcomes for our […]
The Yorkshire Party leadership has issued an urgent plea for candidates for election to the European Parliament, amid the continuing Brexit shambles. A possible delay to Brexit means that the UK may participate in the elections being held between May 23 and 26. Chairman Arnie Craven has written to all […]
Yorkshire Party Councillor Mike Jordan has won the support of his North Yorkshire County Council colleagues in his fight on behalf of the WASPI women disadvantaged by state pension changes. To jubilation in the gallery where affected women watched the proceedings, the County Council backed Mike’s resolution calling on “the […]
Westminster’s political upheaval underlines what the Yorkshire Party has been saying for years: the two-party system is bust, says Yorkshire Party Leader Stewart Arnold in his latest video diary. As the two main parties moved to the extreme, the formation of an Independent Group in the Commons was shake-up in […]
The Government is talking nonsense in its decision to snub a One Yorkshire devolution deal, Chris Whitwood has told radio listeners. Speaking to Liz Green on BBC Radio Leeds, the Yorkshire Party Deputy Leader said: “We’ve got 18 out of 20 councils, not just in West Yorkshire but across the […]
Minister James Brokenshire is today accused of a cowardly act and of trying to silence debate in the way he handled the rejection of the broadly-backed campaign for county-wide devolution. In a hard hitting column in The Yorkshire Post (February 18) which highlights what the newspaper calls “the Government’s divide-and-conquer […]
Tim Iredale and Stewart Arnold on the BBC’s Sunday Politics set James Brokenshire’s “slap in the face” for Yorkshire devolution has strengthened the resolve of those pressing for county-wide control of our own affairs, Yorkshire Party Leader Stewart ArnoStewart BBC Sunday Politicsld has told the BBC. Speaking on the […]
Image: World Arts Me Local newspaper readers have not been slow to react to the decision by Communities Secretary James Brokenshire to reject the One Yorkshire plan for devolution. In letters to The Yorkshire Post: Michael Meadowcroft, former Liberal MP and Honorary Alderman for City of Leeds sets out a […]
Yorkshire politicians have voiced their disappointment and anger at the decision by Communities Secretary James Brokenshire to reject the One Yorkshire plan for devolution. Reporting the story, The Yorkshire Post quoted Liberal Democrat peer Lord Wallace of Saltaire as saying: “This is a huge disappointment. David Cameron criticised Yorkshire Councils […]
Leaders of the One Yorkshire devolution initiative – which is backed by the Yorkshire Party – are seeking an urgent meeting with James Brokenshire, after the Communities Secretary rebuffed their plans in favour of “city regions”. In a statement, the One Yorkshire leaders said: “We are disappointed by the […]
The Yorkshire Post has challenged Minister James Brokenshire to explain himself over the rejection of the One Yorkshire devolution. And the newspaper says that the Communities Secretary, whom it said had made only one formal visit to Yorkshire, should come in person. A leader column on (February 13, 2019) […]
James Brokenshire, the Communities Secretary has written to Yorkshire’s council leaders and MPs today (February 13) to tell them Yorkshire won’t be allowed to work together to improve our schools, roads and hospitals. “Despite 18 of Yorkshire’s 20 council leaders, the Yorkshire Party, businesses and civic leaders all backing the […]
Yorkshire’s growing hunger for control of its own destiny has been championed in a BBC broadcast by author and journalist Andrew Martin. In a BBC 3 programme – part of a series of five, called The Essay – the Yorkshire-born writer, has been looking at the future governance of the […]