Original Date 26th May 2017
One thing I used to do when I was the Member of Parliament for Yardley was to call together meetings of all of the religious organisations in Yardley as a Yardley multi-faith group. In many ways it is the creation of informal links between people that makes communication easier even if there is no formal decision making power.
Obviously this is something I would intend to do again if the people of Yardley ask me to take on the responsibility of representing them in parliament.
It highlights the sort of thing that politicians can do which arises from a leadership role within communities rather than any constitutional position.
I have already written in an earlier blog post about the principles of resolving conflict. It can be summarised as "murdering innocents is wrong".
A number of local mosques have issued statements following the atrocity in Manchester and I think it is worth quoting from parts of them.
One said that the mosque "Unequivoc…
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I am deeply dissapointed though to know there's nothing contained within the agreement about the much needed overhaul of the Children's Services Dept, suppose we will have to wait another five years for someone to realise that the policies of the old Labour government simply do not work but cost the tax payer millions of wasted pounds a year.
Ideal time to take action but sadly this oppertunity has been missed.