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Councillors’ allowances

April 11th, 2006 · Comments Off on Councillors’ allowances · Politics

I already wrote about my strong opinions on attempts to introduce extra allowances for shadow executives on the borough council, but tonight I heard something extraordinary about the whole thing. I'm pretty sure I'm givng away any secrets here because, although this was raised in a Labour group meeting, the details were in a letter […]

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Council meeting

April 11th, 2006 · Comments Off on Council meeting · Politics

This evening Jayne and I went along to the Labour group meeting where they discussed this week's council meeting.  There is a standing invitation for candidates in elections to go along and see how it all works, buy Jayne had always had something else clashing with group meetings previously so this was her first chance […]

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Its all about money for the Tories

April 7th, 2006 · Comments Off on Its all about money for the Tories · Politics

Although the Tories keep banging on about cutting costs to reduce tax, that only applies to services to the public (like closing down children's playgrounds, cutting hot school meals, etc.) and not if the money is going into their own pockets. Where they control the council at county level they created some new posts of […]

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Council tax maths tricks

April 4th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Politics

I really am full of admiration for the Tories’ latest leaflet, and for two main reasons. The first reason is trivial, but means a lot to me. The latest one actually followed basic design principles. Normally they get carried away with fonts and have so many different ones that it gives the impression of a […]

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Nazis

June 23rd, 2005 · Comments Off on Nazis · Politics

Its official. According to the Standards Board for England it is fine for councillors to refer to the BNP as ‘nazis’. In this ruling, released last week, their investigators said that Councillor Gavin Stollar of the Lib Dems, in refering to the BNP as nazis, did not make comments which were disrespectful or capable of […]

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Ethics of blogs for councillors

June 3rd, 2005 · Comments Off on Ethics of blogs for councillors · Politics

When I mentioned the council’s code of conduct, it got me thinking about how what is written in a blog could be subject to that. If a councillor writes a blog, as more and more do now, I expect they have to be a bit careful not to be disrespectful to their colleagues, officers or […]

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