Showing posts with label councils. Show all posts
Showing posts with label councils. Show all posts
Thursday, 10 January 2019

The Cheese Toastie - gateway drug to motorcycle gangsterism

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I am grateful that Bristol Council is on the case - what would we do without such folk: Cheese toasties have been banned from sale in a B...
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Wednesday, 4 July 2018

Why the Taxpayers Alliance needs to shut up or learn something about local government

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I can't speak for others in local government but the Taxpayers Alliance really gets my goat. And I say this as someone who wants low tax...
Saturday, 16 December 2017

Should Council's be doing this?

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I understand the financial imperative for local authorities to seek investments that will provide (possibly) assured future income. But ther...
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Monday, 11 August 2014

Some public health doubletalk...

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**** Bradford Council (to the best of my knowledge) has no policy of supporting or not supporting a minimum unit price for alcohol. I chec...
Saturday, 15 March 2014

Why don't people complain about bad public services?

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**** Perhaps it's the futility of the exercise? Nearly half of people who complained about problems with a public service in the p...
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Tuesday, 4 March 2014

Leaving Bradford? Your views please

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**** OK, I most of you aren't from (or especially interested in) Bradford but for those who are there's a blog post at the Bingle...
Friday, 21 February 2014

So how much power do your councillors have?

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**** It's not new to say that local government isn't really master of its own destiny. Nor would I be the first to observe that lo...
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Wednesday, 19 February 2014

On the setting of council budgets...

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**** Bradford Council is about to set its budget for 2014-2016. I can hear your excitement at the prospect, the sounds of cynical snorts e...
Wednesday, 12 February 2014

Scrapping the position of Council chief executive? Well it's a thought...

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**** Indeed a thought that Bradford Council's Conservative Group has proposed in its last two budget submissions (more specifically we...
Sunday, 9 February 2014

So what are local councils for? A thought on objective-setting

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**** I'm reading the agenda for Bradford Council's Regeneration and Culture Overview and Scrutiny committee (like you do). And I...
Friday, 13 December 2013

Some Councillors just don't get it - the case of York's leader and his deputy

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**** The leader and deputy leader of York City Council appear to dislike the publics' opinions: A report brought before City of Yor...
Saturday, 28 September 2013

Minimum pricing by stealth...

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**** The campaign against minimum pricing for alcohol - a unwarranted and unjustified impost on the less well of - seems to have been succ...
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Wednesday, 13 February 2013

Potholes...

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**** Every Councillor needs to be on top of the pothole issue and pointing out how the council needs to act and act now to do something (s...
Saturday, 9 February 2013

Process or people?

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**** Surrey County Council let an old lady starve to death: Officers from Surrey Police have begun an inquiry following the death of 81...
Wednesday, 6 February 2013

Some Council Monitoring Officers are pretty dumb....

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**** ‘Some council monitoring officers are informing their councillors that being a council tax payer is a disclosable pecuniary interest...
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Sunday, 3 February 2013

Haringey Council - fussbucket central!

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**** Although I fear that Councils elsewhere will be rubbing their hands in glee at the opportunity to fuss and bother over petty regulati...
Tuesday, 8 January 2013

Some Councils just don't get it, do they!

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**** Wrexham Council has banned a local journalist from sending tweets during a council meeting : The shock move came this morning when...
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Thursday, 6 December 2012

LSE Politics Professor George Jones "dysfunctional"

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**** Prof Jones viewed a webcast of Thanet District Council's full meeting and declared it 'dysfunctional'. In doing so, Prof...
Saturday, 3 November 2012

In which North Lincolnshire Council bans shouting in Scunthorpe Market...mad!

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The "one pound fish" man is something of a market legend but the idea that traders call out their offers is as old as markets....
Monday, 22 October 2012

On consultation...

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**** Local government is encouraged - in that gloriously passive aggressive manner beloved of the Department for Communities and Local Gov...