Author Archives: JimfromOldham

On a joint visit today in Oldham, Keir Starmer MP, Leader of the Labour Party and Jim McMahon MP, Labour’s Shadow Transport Secretary, call on the Government to get a grip on the HGV driver shortage. Keir Starmer, Leader of the Labour Party, said: “The haulage sector is trying to save Christmas, get medical suppliesContinue reading “Labour calls on the Government to tackle HGV crisis”

Responding to comments Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, made at Conservative Party Conference about Oldham, Jim McMahon MP for Oldham West and Royton said, “I welcome the Secretary of States sudden interest in Oldham but I think after 11 years of underinvestment in skills and jobs in our townContinue reading “Levelling Up Oldham”

Oldham West and Royton MP Jim McMahon has called on Oldham Council to act on the constant stream of applications for Houses of Multiple Occupation in the borough and implement a boroughwide policy to ensure residents’ concerns are not simple shifted from one district to the next. In his response to the Oldham Local PlanContinue reading “Jim McMahon calls for action on HMOs”

Oldham West and Royton MP Jim McMahon has written to United Utilities demanding accountability and a timescale on the completion of works for a blocked drain on Block Lane, Chadderton. The issue has been raging for over a year now with local residents complaining that no progress has been made. Jim said, “There’s been backContinue reading “Time for action on Block Lane drains”

According to the Financial Times the Government’s own analysis of cutting Universal Credit next month confirms what many of us had been saying, that poverty, foodbank usage and homelessness will rise as a result. So the Government knows that making the biggest overnight cut to social security would be wrong for families and wrong forContinue reading “Cancel the Careless Universal Credit Cut”

This plan is nothing more than a sticking plaster, before the pandemic there was a crisis in social care, with staff on poverty wages, insecure contracts and thousands of vacancies in the sector. To say that the Government have had to do this because of the pandemic is incoherent and unfair, the plans announced byContinue reading “Tory social care plan is incoherent and unfair”

The Maggie’s Oldham centre is a place filled with such compassion and warmth for all those in Oldham affected by a cancer diagnosis, despite being located at The Royal Oldham Hospital as soon as you enter it feels distinctly non-clinical and welcoming. And that’s down to the environment created by the fantastic staff and volunteers,Continue reading “Maggie’s Oldham”

It was a real privilege to speak to young people at National Citizenship Service supported by Oldham Athletic Community Trust, at the Primrose Bank Community Centre. It’s so important democracy is engaging. I talked the young people through my journey in politics and how they can’t afford to sit back and assume that someone elseContinue reading “National Citizen Service @ Oldham Athletic Community Trust”