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Author: Gavin Yates

Elected Representatives Opinion

Tales from the big top

September 23, 2016 Gavin Yates

Fife councillor Gavin Yates looks to the future of the Labour Party, assuming a Jeremy Corbyn victory tomorrow.   Writing this piece a day before the formal announcement of the Labour leadership,

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Grassroots Labour Opinion

Pick up the gun

January 29, 2016January 29, 2016 Gavin Yates

Gavin Yates a Fife Councillor and former Labour Party advisor says that John Swinney’s reaction to local councils considering raising Council Tax will have long term implications for the future

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Elected Representatives Opinion

It’s time to end the Council Tax freeze

December 21, 2015 Gavin Yates

Gavin Yates is a Labour councillor in Fife, a former party advisor, and is NOT standing for Holyrood in 2016. He says Swinney’s cuts are the final straw – we must end

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Grassroots Labour Opinion

Gavin Yates: The nasty side of nationalism

May 17, 2013 Gavin Yates

  I grew up in the West Midlands of England. The nearest city to my home was Coventry – a 1960’s boom town that was famously dubbed ‘Ghost Town’ by

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