From NO STUMP CITY (no.stump.city@gmail.com) Another Labour Party group --- the fourth in the past month --- has come out directly against the tree felling massacres conducted by Labour-controlled Sheffield City Council. At its meeting tonight (20 February), the Fulwood branch of the Labour Party called for “an immediate mediated settlement of the dispute” around the felling of the City’s street trees. The Fulwood branch, which is located in the Hallam constituency, said the SCC Labour Group should to bring “this damaging PFI contract to an end." This branch’s vote follows similar votes by Gleadless Valley Labour Party, Sheffield Momentum, and Broomhill and Sharrow Vale LP since 18 January. Another vote will occur this Thursday night at the Constituency Labour Party meeting for Heeley. If this CLP also decides to dissent from the SCC cabinet’s line on trees and the PFI deal with Amey, it will be the first CLP in Sheffield to challenge the SCC cabinet. Heeley MP Louise Haigh says the SCC and Amey felling programme is “completely unsustainable.” The £2.2 billion PFI agreement between SCC and Amy PLC goes against Labour Party policy. At several recent LP meets, LP members have argued that passage of such resolutions makes the Labour Party a less toxic “brand” as the date for the 3 May local election nears. But we must remember that none of these resolutions would have been proposed, let alone passed, without MANY MONTHS of NVDA work beneath threatened trees, staging pro-tree art shows, and the distribution of thousands of pro-tree, anti-PFI flyers across the city since October. So tonight’s resolution is a victory for our campaign.