The View from Cullingworth

Cullingworth nestles in Yorkshire's wonderful South Pennines where I once was the local councillor. These are my views - on politics, food, beer and the stupidity of those who want to tell me what to think or do. And a little on mushrooms.

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Tuesday, 23 October 2012

A thought on Council budgets and social services...

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**** Councils spend a lot of money - £1.3 billion in Bradford's case - but the bit that matters is the "net revenue budget"....

Thursday, 24 March 2011

Public health and private choice - thoughts on a consultation

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This afternoon I attended a Public Health Consultation event organised (because I insisted) to allow Bradford councillors to have some input...

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Wednesday, 16 March 2011

Death doesn't become us - a thought on mercy killing

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Anna Raccoon, in that knocked-back, slightly laconic manner she takes, describes yet another travesty of life sourced from the Court of Pr...

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Thursday, 10 February 2011

What were they thinking? Of course prisoners shouldn't get the vote.

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**** My decidedly liberal attitude to criminal justice faced a challenge as the great "should prisoners get the vote" debate rag...

Thursday, 6 January 2011

Here's a dilemma....

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**** ...perhaps not too tricky a dilemma for some but interesting nonetheless. Bradford Council (pdf) run 11 residential homes for the ...

Thursday, 4 November 2010

“We’ll give you one of those clicky things…"

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…..and you can vote on what you like or don’t like” So spoke a Council leader when asked about choices, Big Society and the delivery of serv...

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