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Community Cohesion
Posted By: Zulfiqar Ali
Date Posted: 04/07/2007
It has been a busy few months in my role as Cabinet member for Community Cohesion. I also cover housing issues but I want to talk about community cohesion here. We have been busy in the last few months working alongside the Community Pride Initiative, various voluntary groups and government representatives all over Rochdale.
I welcome the recent appointment of Sayeeda Warsi in the Tory Shadow Cabinet to the Community Cohesion brief. The Conservatives, to give them credit, clearly recognise the importance of building strong communities. I hope the new Communities minister, Hazel Blears MP, will learn to listen to local communities. Her predecessor, Ruth Kelly, made several bad decisions and didn’t exactly inspire confidence!
My aim is to bring everyone together from whatever background under shared values and a united Rochdale Borough. We have so much to be proud of as Rochdalians. Celebrating diversity and working together are not just buzzwords but things I see day in and day out here in Rochdale. We all have work to do but lets be proud of our town and what we have built.
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