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Geraint's Bill on credit card regulation to combat child pornography gets national media coverage and features in the Evening Post Read Geraint's speech to Parliament on 21.7.10 here

Geraint speaks out for rape victims (against Lib Dem Tory proposals to hide names of those accused of rape) View Geraint Davies' speech  starts 4.09.30

Police face cuts as pressure on crime rises says Geraint Davies MP in the Commons

Recent News

Dr.Rowan Williams Archbishop of Cantebury becomes Freeman of Swansea here 

Rhodri Morgan gets First Honoury degree from Swansea here

Dr.Who star from Swansea at the Commons here

Lib Dem Tory VAT bombshell hits Swansea click here

Liberal Democrats Under New Management

 The Lib Dem shop in Walter Road is locked and their sell out of policy and principles to the Tories is symbolised with a blue ribbon over the door saying Under New Management. Click here for broken promises

Geraint Davies & 1st Minister Carwyn Jones plans for Wales

"In Wales thanks to Labour we currently get 14% more public expenditure per head than England and Labour will fight against Tory/Lib Dem Government cuts and for the best funding for Wales. " said Geraint Davies
"The stakes are high as the Tory/Lib Dem Government gambles with our economy and risks Swansea families future. jobs, pensions and tax credits .

As Labour MP for Swansea West  I pledge to fight for:-
 
"new jobs in the private sector
Investment of £1.1 billion in electrification of the Swansea London rail link
Training or work for all Swansea 18 to 24 year olds out of work for 6 months
Ensure money meant for schools reaches schools
Police numbers 
Maintain free prescriptions, free school breakfasts and bus passes for Swansea
Keep interest rates low helping Swansea mortgage payers 
Tax credits & minimum wages to make work pay
Link Pensions to earnings in 2012 to help Swansea Senior Citizens
Effective immigration rules to control immigration
 
"I will champion children, workers and pensioners in Swansea and fight for education & training, jobs and improved pensions which are all at risk from the Conservative & Lib Dems cutting funding to Wales and our Welsh Assembly.

A Labour vote in Swansea West will send a clear message that we want a Labour led Assembly supporting jobs in Wales" said Geraint Davies

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The Liberal Democrat administration running Swansea Council are cutting £5.6 million from the education budget despite receiving more money for schools from the Welsh Assembly and holding back £14 miillion in reserves. This means schools across Swansea are making teachers redundant so class sizes grow.

The £2.4 million cost of paying for the teachers national pay award is not being met. Instead Swansea's Lib Dem Council is paying £1.1 million in teacher redundancy payments. They are withdrawing the £40 school uniform grant for pupils receiving free school meals in year 10

The Price of our Lib Dem Council

Lib Dem Council cuts in Swansea will be worsened by Lib Dem/Tory cuts in Westminster.

Before the £5.6 million Lib Dem cut in Swansea education we were already spending £300 less per pupil compared with Neath Port Talbot or Carmarthenshire.

Our neighbours are giving new Welsh Assembly money to their schools but in Swansea school budgets are being cut even further. That's why headteachers wrote to parents across the city objecting to 100 job losses, larger class sizes, less subject choice & poorer education. 

“The LIb Dems promised more investment for education in the election but have now joined the Tories in their cuts programme. The Lib Dems are sacrificing the futures of our Swansea children in order to enjoy the crumbs off the Tory table.

As we move into recovery Swansea's children need us to invest in their qualifications and skills for tomorrow's jobs. Instead our children are being let down by a Lib Dem Council widening the gulf in spending compared with nearby authorities" says Labour’s Geraint Davies.

"Cuts £17m & 600 jobs is only this year's price to bail out the Liberal Democrat Council's failure in social services, it's multi-million pound losses on new computer systems, overspending on the Leisure Centre and uncollected Money is being switched from education to social services in an effort to prop up a failing service that had been one of the best in Wales when Labour ran the Council.”

"By cutting support for children in schools this will simply store up more problems for social services in future” said one headteacher."Lights Out In Swansea" Meanwhile, services and jobs are being cut across the board and 1000 street lamps will go out. The average council tax is being hiked up by twice the rate of inflation to a massive £958 for a band D property.              

"The wrong local choices have been made. People don't want to spend money bailing out the bendy bus and leisure centre losses when the money is urgently needed for schools."

Savings from Teacher Pay lost in Redundancy Costs Schools across Swansea have been told to make redundancies as the Lib Dems won't fund the £2.4 million pay award yet now have to pay £1.1 million in redundancy payments. "The Council should fund the £2.4 million teachers pay award to avoid sacking teachers. It would only cost £1.3 million as the Lib Dems are losing £1.1 million in redundancy payments to sack front line teachers who are crucial for our children's futures. They have £14 million in reserves that could be used" says Labour MP Geraint Davies a Dylan Thomas School Governor