{"id":26859,"date":"2019-11-28T20:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T20:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=26859"},"modified":"2019-11-28T20:00:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T20:00:19","slug":"labour-party-libraries-will-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/labour-party-libraries-will-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour Party pushes for libraries to continue operation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn assures the protection of public libraries as long as they are in position.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Labour Party inclined to protect public libraries<\/span><\/h2>\n

LONDON – During his speech at the Theatre Royal Stanford East, Labour party leader Jeremy Corbin fired against\u00a0<\/a><\/span>the Conservative Party’s<\/span><\/em>\u00a0policy on public libraries.<\/span><\/p>\n

They’ve closed hundreds of public libraries because they do not give importance and don’t want to give importance to libraries providing free services.<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Corbyn left a guarantee to everyone that if the Labour Party is seated in position, they will help protect the interest of public libraries.<\/span>
\nStatistically wise, during the last time Labour was in power in 2009-2019, around 4,482 public libraries are functional all across Britain. As of 2018, the numbers have diminished to 3,618.<\/span><\/p>\n

A lot of libraries were closed, those that remained have operating hours being cut. Some were handed over to voluntary groups, and this is clearly an abandonment of public responsibility,<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The love for libraries<\/span><\/h2>\n

Growing up in a small town in Shropshire, Corbyn was enthusiastic with books even at a young age and volunteered as a librarian at school.<\/span><\/p>\n

Having a library across our house, I usually stay there after school, staring at the big atlases. Libraries gave me the enthusiasm in life that I want everybody to discover too.<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Based on the Labour Party’s proposal<\/a>, a $1.29 billion cultural capital fund will be pledged to transform museums, libraries, and galleries all across Britain.<\/span><\/p>\n

The funding will be used to ensure libraries are preserved and updated with computers.<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The proposed budget by\u00a0<\/span>Conservatives<\/span><\/em>\u00a0for library support was around $423 million.<\/span><\/p>\n

That sounds nice, but for five years, it questionable if it can sustain the costs of rehabilitation and maintenance.<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It was also found out at that during the\u00a0<\/span>Conservative’s<\/span><\/em>\u00a0term, and there was a yearly decline in budget intended for libraries all across Britain.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn assures the protection of public libraries as long as they are in position. Labour Party inclined to protect public libraries LONDON – During his speech at the Theatre Royal Stanford East, Labour party leader Jeremy Corbin fired against\u00a0the Conservative Party’s\u00a0policy on public libraries. They’ve closed hundreds of public libraries because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":26868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}