"Your Money and how they spend it"

This is the title of the program in which the SACC will be featured for BBC 2 and it will be presented by Nick Robinson, if we make the cut!

I think filming went reasonably well. Like always I thought of loads of things I could have said better after they all went home and it was an absolutely surreal experience. Thanks so much to Laurence Rankin from sefton green party and especially to Celia Watson who came out on her birthday to help!


Last Thursday I also attended a lobbying of Andy Burnham with the Anti-Acadmies campaign. I took some pictures and a video. There is a link to the video here: http://www.youtube.com/user/curiositykilledkat1#p/a/u/0/Zre_2D0X_yY

I'll put the pictures up later but they are on the facebook page here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Southport-Anti-Cuts-Coalition/180280585320389?sk=photos

It was covered by the Echo here: http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2011/06/17/merseyside-parents-battle-academy-plans-with-protest-100252-28893451/

Mr Burnham listened very intently to all that was said and spoke very nicely to those that had come, here is hoping he backs that up with some support for the campaign!

I harangued him about the lack of credible opposition from the Labour Party, his answer was that the press don't like to report what Labour are doing. I put it to him that their policies now and of nulabour, do not really represent an opposition to the policies of this government or the major government before, and that meant they could not provide a credible opposition because they would be doing the same if in power and in fact did do the same when in power. Also that it is a real risk for democracy if the left are not represented anymore now labour are implementing ed milliband's blue labour policies. He said that was a small minority of labour's supporters and I said "but influential ones, don't you think?"