Category Archives: Jim McMahon MP news

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”

The Manchester Evening News has reported that efforts are being made to establish a community patrol in parts of the constituency. Nationally a number of similar groups have already been established, and it proves a source of tension for local councils and police forces in reconciling how to ensure the safety of volunteers and theContinue reading “Setting out my objection to Community Street Patrols”

I had a really interesting visit to Mellor Buses in Rochdale this morning hearing about how the Government’s zero emission bus funding is excluding companies like Mellor as they deal with buses at the smaller end of the spectrum – under 23 passengers – and holding back British manufacturing as a result. We’re 18 monthsContinue reading “Mellor Buses visit in Rochdale”

Another successful community litter pick done yesterday, even with the foul weather we managed to get through the Shaw Street area of Royton and amass a fair few bags! We’ve been out now a fair few times in Royton, the councillors are really putting in the hard work to make the town clean and wellContinue reading “Another successful community litter pick”

Team GB have as always been excellent during the Tokyo Olympic Games, and Matt Walls’ heroics on the cycling track have made all of us in Oldham incredibly proud. Together with Debbie Abrahams and Angela Rayner we’ve written to Oldham Council to ask that Matt be given the Freedom of the Borough – the highestContinue reading “Golden Matthew Walls!”

It was a pleasure to attend a visit to the Shree Swaminarayan Temple construction site with council leader Cllr Arooj Shah this week. It has been two years since we met at the new temple site on Copster Hill Road at the ground-breaking ceremony in 2019. However, when Covid hit it led to delays inContinue reading “The Shree Swaminarayan Temple construction”