Southport Labour Party

Southport MP called on to help keep free TV for elderly

Councillor Sean Halsall has written to Southport’s Conservative MP Damien Moore, calling on him to oppose plans to scrap free licence fees for those 75 and over.

Cllr Halsall, who represents Kew ward, says many Southport constituents “will be worse off due to this callous policy.”

Covid Clutter Cleared By Southport Councillors’ Community Project

Councillor Myers (centre) with some of the local Labour volunteers who helped in the project.

Local Labour councillors and volunteers have been helping residents clear their Covid clutter after weeks of lockdown led to unwanted items and rubbish stockpiling.

Norwood’s councillors arranged the community skips to help householders in the ward get rid of a wide range of domestic junk.

Apology demanded from Southport MP for what councillor says is “clear discrimination” against Black Lives Matter protest

A banner at Saturday’s human rights protest in Southport

Southport’s Conservative MP has been told he should apologise after denouncing the Black Lives Matter protest held in the town at the weekend.

Posting on his Facebook page, Damien Moore made a lengthy criticism of the event, which he’d previously asked residents not to attend.

The MP stated he supported the aims behind it but his opposition was on the basis of Covid concerns, saying:

“The demonstration that took part on Saturday was unhelpful and went someway to undoing our town’s efforts to tackle this pandemic, protect our NHS, and save lives.”

But critics have pointed out that in the very same post he also stated that veterans who had staged their own gathering at the same time just a hundred metres or so away had his “full support”, seemingly unaware it completely undercut his own professed public health stance.