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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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Chugging chuggers
Imagine I stopped you on the street, perhaps applying a bit of gentle pressure, persuaded you to give me your bank details, then used them to take over £500 from your account without really telling you what it was going towards; you would have good reason to think you have been mugged. Yet last night’s
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Chugging fools
I suppose I should be honoured to be deemed noteworthy enough to appear in an April’s Fool ‘joke’, even if it is only Third Sector. In an article bylined by ‘May Dupp’ they reveal that a street fundraising ban unites main parties and I’m quoted as saying what good news a ban would be. Not
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Posted in Regeneration
Also tagged April Fools, charity, Chugging, PFRA, Third Sector, Tooting, Tooting Broadway
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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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Weekly wrap-up, 21 August
I felt these need a bit of perking up, so I’d thought I’d start a… Photo of the week! The idea was nice, I fairly often take photos – most often with my phone, but I’ll often find myself wondering around with various cameras. Sadly, when I looked through this week’s photos there wasn’t really
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Posted in Community Safety, Regeneration, Wandsworth
Also tagged Chugging, crime, crime prevention, photos
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The chuggers strike back
It is silly season, but even so I’m surprised at how the chugging issue has taken off. It’s got a fair chunk of coverage via the media and generated a rather pleasing set of supportive emails and messages for me. What is absolutely bizarre, however, has been the response of the Public Fundraising Regulatory Authority
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Support for Wandsworth on chuggers
There’s been a good response to my, and others, various mutterings about chuggers. One of the most exciting is that as a result of yesterday’s council press release Sadiq Khan’s office have been making enquiries about the problem (and as far as I know all have confirmed that a problem exists). If the local MP
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Posted in Community Safety, Regeneration
Also tagged Chugging, Sadiq Khan, Tooting Broadway
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Weekly wrap-up, 14 August
My weekly look back on a few bits and pieces I want to highlight or didn't post about first time around.Another slow-ish week council-wise, as the summer slow-down truly takes hold. But a few things to include this week. GoogleLocalgov My weekly wrap-up last week was posted during the lunch break of GoogleLocalgov. Google are clearly targetting local government as a market and, as part of that hosted a whole group of local government types
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Posted in Weekly report
Also tagged Balham, Chugging, Google, GoogleLocalGov, Lavender Hill
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Why I don’t like chuggers
I’ve thought long and hard how to say this, but I’ve decided it’s best to be open about it. I don’t like chuggers (charity muggers) or, to give them their proper title, face-to-face fundraisers. I hinted at this nearly two weeks ago when I complained about their activities on St John’s Road. At the time
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Weekly wrap-up, 31 July
Summer laziness As I mentioned last week, things do start getting quieter during late July and August and my council work this week really showed that – I’ve managed to go the whole week without a single trip to the Town Hall. While that doesn’t mean I’ve done nothing (I’m sadly all too available on
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Posted in Weekly report
Also tagged police, St John's Road, Summer, SW11, SW11 Literary Festival, Tooting
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