Speaking in Carlow in June 2010, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government and Green Party leader John Gormley said the Labour Party is coming very close to being the " Father Ted of Irish politics " because, according to Gormley, they have no policies.

When Labour came to power in 1997 he was appointed a Parliamentary Under Secretary in the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, and was promoted to Minister of State in the department as Minister for Housing and Planning from 1999 to 2001, and Minister for Local Government 2001-02, and in the again reorganised Office of the Deputy Prime Minister 2002-2005, with special responsibility for local government, English regions, electoral law, fire, health and safety and London.

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As of October 2008, the current membership of the Council is Conservative Party 33 ; Residents ' Association 12 ; Independent Local Residents 2 ; Labour Party 2 ; Hornchurch Residents 1 ; Rainham Residents 2 ; British National Party 1 ; Liberal Democrat 1.

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Cosgrave, together with James Tully, the Labour Minister for Local Government had redrawn the constituency boundaries to favour Fine Gael and Labour for the first time ( the " Tullymander ") and they confidently expected the new boundaries would win for them.

The 1997 – 2010 Labour Government wished to move Council Housing away from Local Authority management.

The Labour Government introduced a " third way ": the Arms Length Management Organisation ( ALMO ), where the housing stock stays with the Local Authority but is managed by a not-for-profit organisation at arm's length from the Local Authority.

From 1993 he was Local Government officer for the Labour Party ; he lived in Hackney and was elected to Hackney Borough Council in 1993, serving until 1998.

The Local Labour Party MP declared, " The plain fact is that if people have to live and bear and bring up children in bad houses on too little food, their resistance to disease is lowered and they die before they should.

Carmi Gillon serves as Chairman of the Local Council of Mevaseret Zion, a Jerusalem suburb, while Avi Dichter and Ami Ayalon were at one time leading candidates for defense minister ( Dichter for the Kadima party formed by prime minister Ariel Sharon, Ayalon on the Labour party ticket ).

At the 2009 Local Elections two members each were elected for Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Labour Party along with two Independents and one Sinn Féin.

Bridgend County Borough Council is led by The Labour Party, who secured an overall majority in the May 2012 Local Elections.

As of the 2007 Local Elections, two of those seats were held by the Labour Party and one by the Conservative Party.

When Labour entered into a coalition government with Fine Gael in 1973, he was appointed Minister for Local Government.

She served in the Cabinet as Minister without Portfolio and Labour Chair between 2006 and 2007, and Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government from 2007 to 2009, when she resigned.

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Before his election to Parliament in 1997, White had been Deputy Leader of Milton Keynes Council and the Secretary of the Local Government Association Labour Group.

Local preachers continue to be found in the ranks of the Labour movement: prominent recent examples include George Thomas, Speaker of the House of Commons from 1976 to 1983, and Len Murray, General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress from 1973 to 1984.

Davidson spent 10 years as Labour city councillor in Cardiff ( 1987 – 96 ), was Welsh Co-ordinator for the National Local Government Forum followed by being Head of Social Affairs for the Welsh Local Government Association, before becoming Assembly Member for Pontypridd in 1999.

Local activists and residents joined in the growing civil disobedience movement spreading across the German Democratic Republic by staging demonstrations and demanding the removal of the nondemocratic government.

Local politicians and activists have long denounced the refineries for the amount of air pollution they generate, but in recent years these protests have been muted as the Port of Los Angeles has become the region's dominant polluter.

Local gay rights activists including, Porterville LGBTQ, protested City Council meetings for 11 months, getting the attention of local media.

Local Slovene activists established contacts with the Yugoslav nationalist organization Orjuna, launching first attacks at Italian military and police personnel.

The board eventually was embroiled in counter lawsuits by board members and listener-sponsors, and after global settlement of the lawsuits in November 2001, an interim board was formed to craft new bylaws, which it did in two tumultuous years of national debates among thousands of listener-sponsors and activists, finally giving listener-sponsors the right and responsibility to elect new Local Station Boards at each of the five Pacifica stations.

Local community groups and activists are very vocal about any changes at the airport.

Local rank-and-file party members and activists overwhelmingly supported Kan, and according to opinion polls the wider Japanese public preferred Kan to Ozawa by as much as a 4 – 1 ratio.

Local activists held a Phelps-A-Thon in response.

Local Long Island activists prevented the center from expanding to include diseases that affect humans in 2000, which would require a Biosafety Level 4 designation ; in 2002, Congress again considered the plan.

Now the largest gay equality organization not only in the UK but in Europe, it was formed in 1989 by political activists and others lobbying against section 28 of the Local Government Act.

Local academic and religious activists persisted in these efforts for sixteen years until the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York recognized the school with that institution's first charter.

Local Slovene political activists were either executed or deported to Nazi concentration camps.

Taking advantage of a mis-step by the leadership of UAW Local 200 in trying to rally a national one-day strike in sympathy of Ford workers, in 1946 CCF activists within the local 195 and 200 overturned their leadership.

Local kibbutzniks, such as Oded Lifshitz, and Latif Dori, many of whom were also activists in the left-wing Mapam party ran Rafiah tours in order to show Israelis the destruction that had taken place, and to bring to public attention the fact that the image of the Bedouin as nomads was inexact, and that their orchards were being bulldozed.

In response to the rumours of a cohort of Liberal Party activists being about to launch a UK Green Party, HELP ( the Hackney Local Ecology Party ) formally registered the name “ the Green Party ”, with a green circle, designed by Steve O ’ Brien, as the logo.

Local environmental activists claim that the mining operations, which use large quantities of a dilute cyanide solution, have contaminated the water sources, leading to the disappearance of fish and frogs, illnesses among cattle, air pollution, and loss of medicinal plants.

The Liberal Democrats remember Penhaligon's ability to recruit and enthuse members through the Penhaligon Award, a trophy presented annually at the party's autumn party conference to the Local Party which demonstrates the greatest increase in party membership together with activities to develop and involve members and activists.

Local community activists led a successful campaign winning a public inquiry into the future use of this valued green space.

Local members of the political party PRI were blamed for the vandalism.

Local farmers blamed him for the blight of the wheat crop and commissioned an exorcism in the nearby hills.

Tamworth has two designated Local Nature Reserves, Hodge Lane ( Amington ) and Kettlebrook ( Glascote / Wilnecote ).

As of 22 September 2009, Follett was demoted to a junior minister at the Department for Communities and Local Government, after Margaret Hodge returned to government to take the portfolio back as Tourism Minister after her compassionate leave of absence.

Local MP Colin Burgon made it the subject of an Adjournment Debate in the House of Commons on 10 July 2007, and Minister of State for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Margaret Hodge, replied.