Fly the flag!

In excellent news, you'll no longer need planning permission to fly this flag - or indeed any other flag. Excellent news from Mr Pickles:

In a speech to the Flag Institute, the Communities and Local Government Secretary is today announcing his intention to launch a consultation to allow a wider variety of important and historic flags to be flown by people keen to celebrate their local and national heritage and culture.


The last Government changed planning rules to allow the European Union flag to be flown without permission. The coalition Government will make it easier for communities wanting to celebrate the contribution of our armed forces by easing rules on flying local regimental flags. Other local flags, and projects like environmental awards, could also all be freed up from existing bureaucratic restrictions.

Getting those banners flying!

What a surprise....

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It seems that Labour councillors don't like Eric Pickles!

More than half of all councillors think communities secretary, Eric Pickles, is doing a bad job, according to a new poll by Total Politics magazine.

The poll revealed that 52% think he is doing a bad job, while 33% think Mr Pickles has done a very or fairly good job since taking office last May.

But while all of the Labour councillors surveyed thought the communities secretary had done a bad job, 61% of Tories thought he had done a good job.

This perhaps qualifies for stupid poll of the week!

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