Showing posts with label waste. Show all posts
Showing posts with label waste. Show all posts
Thursday, 21 September 2017

What's wrong with the NHS? Bureaucracy - that's what's wrong

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Let me introduce you to the Bradford and Craven Integrated Workforce Programme's workforce strategy (this will be referred to as the IW...
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Thursday, 27 July 2017

Government...

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A couple of examples from John Stossel at Reason : But New York City's bureaucrats are unapologetic about their $2 million toilet. The ...
Monday, 22 December 2014

"Yet in thy dark streets shineth, The everlasting Light." - thoughts on crime and streetlighting.

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**** It's the longest night of the year (or pretty close to it) so what better choice of subject for a Labour Party press release than...
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Tuesday, 8 April 2014

The Guardianista solution to food waste - reintroduce rationing!

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**** There are times when the Guardian reads like a parody of itself. So part of me wants to roll about laughing at the woman who is so co...
Tuesday, 25 February 2014

Bradford and The Cuts

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**** There are some useful figures here about the actual changes to Bradford Council's budget since 2007/8 on the Conservative Group ...
Sunday, 15 December 2013

The BBC is completely out of control...

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**** Yesterday I noted that the BBC had sent 140 people - at the cost of over £1m - to South Africa following the death of Nelson Mandela....
Saturday, 14 December 2013

The BBC really is a joke....

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**** ... a cruel joke on all those poor folk in council houses coughing up for the license fee (and filling up magistrates courts when th...
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Thursday, 17 October 2013

Sorry but state direction of the food system won't reduce waste...

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**** On the face of it seeking to reduce the amount of food we throw away unused is a good thing. It certainly makes sense and I'd be ...
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Saturday, 21 September 2013

How the police waste resources...and then blame the public

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**** Shock, horror, scandal! One drunk takes 17 - yes, folks one seven, seventeen - coppers to respond. Now leaving aside that I don't...
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Thursday, 21 March 2013

Permission to dump, Sir? Some rubbish bureaucracy from Bradford Council

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**** In this year's budget Bradford's Labour leadership - supported as they are by the watermelons from Shipley - forced through a...
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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...
Friday, 1 June 2012

Hello Chief Constable, gotta new motor?

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While the Police Authority has insisted on savings in front line policing - closing down public access to Bradford's police offices, f...
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Thursday, 3 May 2012

So HS2 is a project where "successful delivery of the project is in doubt"

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****   The Cabinet Office "major projects team" thinks this of the High Speed Rail nonsense: "...HS2 has been given the...
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Sunday, 1 April 2012

Evidence that bilateral aid is wasteful?

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*** Not that it's a surprise : Documents recently made public by the UK government reveal the cost of poverty reduction in the Mill...
Thursday, 2 February 2012

How the EU wastes your money... (a further installment)

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**** In this case it's climate change nonsense combining with food fascism: Our project will demonstrate the tool to define country-...
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Wednesday, 14 December 2011

Fiddling while the economy collapses...the EU propaganda continues

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**** So the whole thing begins to resemble a rather sarcastic pantomime, a celebration of mutual incomprehension mixed with self-interest ...
Tuesday, 6 December 2011

Things that are wrong with local government...

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**** I attended a meeting of Bradford's Corporate Overview & Scrutiny Committee today where we looked at the new "Sustainable...
Friday, 21 October 2011

Does it really cost that much?

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**** Hampshire County Council are proposing to put video of their council meetings on-line - all well and good but... The estimated c...
Thursday, 6 October 2011

..now about those BBC cuts!

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The BBC’s decision to cut 2000 jobs needs to be set in some kind of context. Such as : The BBC has sent 407 people to cover this weekend...
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Tuesday, 30 August 2011

...they can't stop wasting your cash can they!

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**** This time it's Leeds City Council : Leeds City Council is set to take over the economic research and intelligence unit of axed...