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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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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Sunday, 19 January 2014

Extortion, theft and fairness - the idea of taxation

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**** " Abracadabra, thus we learn the more you create, the less you earn. The less you earn, the more you're given, the less y...

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Friday, 26 October 2012

Why I'm confused about those cuts...

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**** "Major cuts," is the cry. And I wonder. Mostly where the money is all going. For in the aggregate there are no cuts : Wh...

Monday, 7 November 2011

You mustn't scrutinise budgets...

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**** Bradford's Children's Services Scrutiny Committee took an item on the 2011/12 budget for the service and made a resolution : ...

Monday, 23 May 2011

Nottingham's Labour Leader doth complain too much I feel

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**** Nottingham is the local authority that thinks the public shouldn't know about how it spends their money. It is, of course, run by...

Monday, 11 April 2011

The NHS budget is growing - so why are they sacking nurses?

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*** Nothing, absolutely nothing makes the case for NHS reform better than this piece of shroud-waving from the nurses' union, the RCN ...

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