Welcome to Labour Mumbles

Welcome to the new blog of Mumbles Branch of the UK Labour Party.  The title of the blog is quite intentional as we hope to publish here the thoughts, ideas, hopes, mumbles and grumbles of grassroots Labour party branch members from an ordinary party branch from South West Wales, (albeit an extremely beautiful bit of South West Wales.)

The View from Mumbles

For those of you who don't know Mumbles it is a small seaside district to the West of Swansea encompassing the electoral wards of   Oystermouth, Newton, West Cross, and Mayals. The party branch here has 300+ members and we play an active role within the local community and and also in the wider city social and political life.

We hope that that through this blog outside readers and those who are maybe visiting or thinking or moving to the area can be provided with an introduction and ongoing account as to what is going on in the area and current debates and concerns.  For local party members and the wider community of Mumbles we would like to think that this blog can act as a forum where you might keep up at a date on local issues but also enable you to get your voice heard. We fully realise that local party meetings are not for everybody so by developing these blogs and other social media accounts we would like to think that we are reaching out to enable our wider community to engage with us and get their voice heard.

All too often and particularly recently with all the Brexit kerfuffle politicians and political parties have been accused, and justifiably so, of not listening to "ordinary people".  Particularly within the past nine to ten years there have been massive changes in information and communication technology that have reduced the distance and barriers between us and made it so much easier to communicate with each other. We in Mumbles Labour are keen to develop and use these new technologies to ensure that we get the voice of our community members heard in both Mumbles and Swansea.

Obviously we are in the process of developing this blog and our other social media outputs such as Twitter @Mumbleslabour1 and Facebook  http://bit.ly/2kTgnRT if you have any ideas or want to contribute or comment in any way please do.  It is easy to post a comment on FaceBook or Twitter and if you have something longer to say post it as a reply to our blog or send us a blog post of your own.

So there you have it our very first Labour Mumbles blog. Hope you've found it at least a little bit useful but please comment, we are all ears, we are here to listen :-)