Conference and The Speaker

Returned late yesterday evening from the annual PCS Conference in Brighton.

Another good and successful conference that saw the Union preparing it's position to defend public services and to oppose the continuing privitisation of various aspects of the Civil Service. My motion on setting H&S Key Work Objectives for managers was passed overwhelmingly, so it will be interesting to see what progress can be made on that over the next year.

I also heard that Speaker Michael Martin announced he was to stand down in June - my genealogical research has suggested that one of my ancestors was Sir Robert Bell - speaker of the House during Elizabeth I's reign! Things in the family have changed considerably in the intervening centuries however!

Back to the leafletting and canvassing again today, and preparing for tomorrow's public meeting about the planning applications for a Care Home near Vigo / Oad Street.