The General Election campaign is starting. On Thursday evening I attended and spoke at Eleanor Tunnicliffe’s campaign launch to become MP for Richmond Park. As you can see from the photographs I had a great time and the evening raised a good amount of money to go towards the General Election campaign. Eleanor is an excellent candidate [...]
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This evening there is a candlelit vigil in Trafalgar Square from 8pm against all hate crime. Do attend if you can, and if you cannot you can observe 2 minutes silence at 9pm. I have been deeply concerned at a time when tolerance is rising,that there has been a rise in homophobic hate crimes. I [...]
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The past few weeks have seen more European coverage in the British media than I have seen for a long time. Given this, I was pleased to be invited to talk to the General Committee of Feltham and Heston Labour Party yesterday. I am always happy to go to GC meetings and other Labour Party [...]
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I am delighted to see Jess Cordingly blogging today on Labour List. Jess used to work for me in Brussels, and left earlier this year to become the Managing Director of Future First. “Future First is a grassroots initiative working to empower young people who are at or have recently studied at a state school. Future First [...]
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It’s always heartening when a non-political celebrity takes a stand on something outside their own particular work role. Congratulations to Nicole Kidman, who is goodwill ambassador for the UN Development Fund for Women as well as being an Oscar winning actress, for telling the United States Congress that violence against women and girls is “perhaps the most systematic, [...]
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A real example of the prospects facing the country can be illustrated by the fate of the proposals for a Cross River Tram. The plan is to link Camden Town through Waterloo to Brixton and Peckham. (Let me declare an interest, as a Camden resident it would be very helpful when it rains to be [...]
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Having started my own regular blog reviews, I recently came across one for this particular blog. Politics.co.uk, who have a complete list of political blogs, are too kind - they have reviewed the Honeyball Buzz and summarise it as: “One of our favourite MEPs’ blogs, the excellent Mary Honeyball provides us with an informed, witty commentary on life in Labour.” [...]
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You may have read Nick Davies’ controversial article in The Guardian on Tuesday, in which he argued that there has been a ‘tide of misinformation’ surrounding sex trafficking and that figures have been exaggerated. This, I believe, is a highly dangerous and misleading conclusion to draw. I responded to this article with a letter, which [...]
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Congratulations to Oleg Orlov, Sergei Kovalev and Lyudmila Alexeyeva from the Russian civil rights defence organisation “Memorial”, this year’s winner of the Sakharov Prize. Presented every year by the European Parliament, the Sakharov Prize is awarded for freedom of thought. The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, named in honour of the Soviet physicist and [...]
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When speaking at events in London I am regularly asked about the Lisbon Treaty. There often seems to be one swivel-eyed person there who knows the finer points of Lisbon off by heart. However, for everyone else, the key issues in Europe have to do with jobs, human rights and, of course, reform of the Common Agricultural Policy. However, [...]
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