Originally posted @ 11:58 pm, Wed 29th Apr 2009
The personal cannot always be political.
But when citing reasons to be proud of Labour's progress, it is the personal experiences when bring home that what we were and are doing touched people's lives and in turn touched me.
persoanl experiences that are a reward for what we do.
So to my personal list of reasons to be Proud to be Labour; proud -
of the better attainment at schools; results at the school I chair have improved and are improving, such that kids from a challenged background, of whom only one-tenth got 5 good GCSEs, now have nearly have a half; and I remember watching pupils and parents coming to school last August to find out what they'd achieved;
of the best tram in the country; and I remember the joy and the packed trains on the day it opened;
of the joy people exhibit when they’ve attended their British citizenship event; and I was pleased to offer the chance to show them around council HQ;
that I could attend a civic ceremony in The Council House, where my friend and colleague, the next Sheriff of Nottingham, got married to Jonathan;
that when I spoke at a climate change conference in Chicago of the progress made in Britain, American Councilmen could so relate to it, 6 years into George Bush’s Presidency;
when pensioners acknowledge to me on the doorstep how they feel much better off, as happens often, most recently in Stenson Fields;
There are more, and there will be more to come.
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