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I'm a councillor in the London Borough of Wandsworth; this blog mainly covers that, sometimes general politics and policy and occasionally anything else that takes my fancy.
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Grimsby, a thousand delights
Having identified lots of reasons why I had, effectively, stopped blogging and deliberately taken several weeks off I found myself faced with another hurdle: what on earth do I post first if I am to attempt blogging again? Should it be council or ward related (despite my feeling I should be less Wandsworth-centric), should it
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Calling it a day
It’s clear to anyone who notices the small date on the posts in this blog that it is a defunct blog. One of those sad sites that was once updated, perhaps even loved, but now sits neglected and ignored by its owner. It catches readers from Google and other sites that link to it, but
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Blogging the town hall
Last night was the council tax setting meeting. If the council has anything like a set-piece debate in its calendar it must surely be the council tax setting. It’s as close as we get to a Queen’s speech or a budget. For the record we froze council tax again – though this year it seems
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Posted in Blogging, Politics
Also tagged Eric Pickles, openness, press, transparency
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Chugging, comments and blogging
It’s occurred to me that I never returned to the comments I removed from the blog during the chugging episode, despite promising that I would either restore them or explain why I removed them. In fact, I made the decision fairly soon after I removed them that they would not be returning. This was after
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How fate mocks my arrogance
Yesterday I opted out of Iain Dale’s blogging poll. The poll, which he runs every year, produces various top 10 style lists – all of which come with a button that you can use on your blog to advertise your success and link back to his Total Politics site. I reckon I was in with
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Tom Watson, buses and digital engagement
Because of my blogging, Twittering and dabbling in other things digital-engagement I seem to have fallen in with a crowd who are passionate about the power of social media to change the world. Sadly, I am a cynic, a pessimist who recognises that for all its power, it’s limited. Limited by the people who use
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Posted in Politics, Twitter
Also tagged buses, Gordon Brown, public spending, Sadiq Khan, Tom Watson, Twitter
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Using my blog to report back…
One of the suggestions when I asked for ideas for the blog last week (and I’m still looking for ideas or suggestions, feel free to add a comment or email cllr@jamescousins.com) was a regular ‘report’. Of course, reports can take many formats, but I thought I’d give it a go. I’m going to trial this
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Posted in Shaftesbury, Wandsworth
Also tagged accountability, engagement, ideas, public, reports
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Does the Speaker’s resignation really matter?
As someone who could be called a political blogger I should have an opinion on it. Fact is, I don’t. Not much of one, anyway. But as a political blogger it is my right, if not my duty, to drag my tendentious non-opinions out for a few hundred words. And my opinion is that it
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