Campaigns

On this page you will find information about local campaigns which Renfrewshire Labour are running and local initiatives which we support.

| Scottish Parliament Elections |

| Better Buses Renfrewshire |

| Kids Need Our Ward (KNOW) |

Scottish Parliament Elections

On May 7th the people of Scotland will go to the polls to choose who will govern Scotland for the next five years.

We face a choice of continued decline under the SNP who have been in government in Scotland since 2007 and who have no ideas for our country except to blame the UK Government and push for a damaging second independence referendum.

Making the case for Labour:		We can't afford another five years of SNP failure:
JOBS	Labour's new deal for working people has seen minimum wage UP and zero-hour contracts and fire and rehire n the way OUT!	FINANCE	The SNP has wasted £6.7 BILLION of public money. including £363 MILLION on the ferries fiasco and £375 MILLION on sending new ferry contracts abroad.
CHILD POVERTY	UK Labour has SCRAPPED the Tories' two-child benefit cap, which will lift 450,000 children out of poverty, including 95,000 in Scotland.	HEALTH	The equivalent of 700,000 Scots are still stick on NHS waiting lists, while more that 800 deaths in 2024 have been linked to long waits in A&E.
COST OF LIVING	Interest rates have been cut five times under Labour, energy bills are down by £150 in the latest budget, while tax loopholes for wealthy landowners, private schools and non-doms are being closed.	HOUSING	Over 10,000 children are living in temporary accommodation, and a national housing emergency has been declared.
FUNDING	Labour has delivered record funding in Scotland, with over £10 BILLION extra for devolved priorities and a further £10 BILLION on Clyde shipbuilding.	POLICING	There are almost 1,000 fewer police officers since Police Scotland was established in 2013, while 140 police stations have closed.
JUSTICE	A Scottish Labour Government will launch an emergency mental health service, helping free up 360 police officers to get back to the front line.	PRISONS	Barlinnie's replacement prison is due to cost £1 BILLION - ten times more than originally planned - and to be built three years late.
HEALTH	Scottish Labour will end the 8am rush for GP appointments and bring back the family doctor by renegotiating the GP contract.	SCHOOLS	The SNP promised to close the attainment gap between pupils from Scotland's most and least deprived areas, but it remains stubbornly large.
HOUSING	We will reform planning laws to boost housebuilding across all tenures throughout Scotland	ECONOMY	If Scotland's economy had grown at the same pace as the UK economy between 2012 and 2021, it would be £8.5 billion larger.
SCHOOLS	We will help young people succeed by improving safety in classrooms and mental health support and creating 9,000 new apprenticeship places.	SKILLS	1 in 6 young people aged 16-24 in Scotland are not in work, education or training, while funding for colleges has been cut by 20% since 2021/22.
		JOBS	The number of employees in our retail industry has hit a 15-year low, with more than 10,000 jobs lost between 2023 and 2024 alone.

Recent boundary changes means at the election in May your constituency may have changed its name.  Renfrewshire is covers three constituencies.

Renfrewshire North and Cardonald	Paisley	Renfrewshire West and Levern Valley
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Renfrewshire North and Cardonald constituency covers from Langbank in the West, Bishopton, Dargavel Village, Erskine, Inchinnan, Renfrew, Hillington, Crookston, Penilee and Cardonald	Paisley Constituency covers the town of Paisley and all constituent communities.	Renfrewshire West and Levern Valley constituency covers Houston, Bridge of Weir, Brookfeild, Linwood, Johnstone, Elderslie, Howwood, Lochwinnich, Uplawmoore, Neilston and part of Barrhead.

Our Candidates

Labour are fielding three fantastic candidates and we hope that we will be able count on your support, to get them elected and help deliver the change that Renfrewshire and Scotland needs after 19 years of mistakes by the SNP.

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Better Buses Renfrewshire

McGills Buses are cutting a massive 13% of bus services in Renfrewshire at the same time as hiking up fares.

We are seeing cuts to many services and the withdrawal of some services altogether.

These are the latest in a series of cuts to services in recent years and hiking up bus fare makes it a double whammy - it’ll make the bus services that are left less attractive for people to use.

Enough is enough.

Renfrewshire Labour and Neil Bibby MSP have a plan to save our buses. Back our plan and sign the petition by clicking here.

Kids Need Our Ward (KNOW)

Of all the things Labour can be proud of achieving in government, the one that towers above the rest is our National Health Service.  Nearly 70 years ago, a Labour government set up the NHS based on patient need, not the ability the pay. It is doubtless that anyone here in Renfrewshire has not called on the NHS when they or someone they care for needed medical help.

But now, after a decade of an SNP Government at Holyrood, our health service is in distress.

As a result of the SNP’s mismanagement NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde are proposing to close the paediatric ward at the RAH and move children's in patient care to either Yorkhill or the Royal Hospital for Children at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.

The Kids Need Our Ward (KNOW) campaign, spearheaded by local people who are deeply alarmed by these proposals has been supported from the outset by the local Labour Party and we have joined the groups members at events aimed at highlighting to the wider population of Renfrewshire the threat facing our Children's Ward.

This month, local Labour MSP Neil Bibby, members of Renfrewshire Council's Labour Group, along with our general election candidates, Alison Taylor and Alison Dowling joined with concerned parents and local residents at a protest event attended by Scottish Labour Leader Kezia Dugdale MSP and Labour's Shadow Health Minister Anas Sarwar MSP.

Neil Bibby MSP, our local Councillors and general election candidates were also on hand to support members of the KNOW campaign when the SNP Health Minister Shona Robison paid a fleeting visit to Paisley to attend an invitation only meeting arranged by SNP MP Mhairi Black which shut out many of the key members of the KNOW campaign from having their voices heard.

Labour fully support keeping our Children's Ward open and we will fight every day to protect our NHS: it is in our DNA.

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