Tag Archives: Council
The deficit and deficit deniers (Wandsworth branch)
Local democracy returned to its Wandsworth home last night with the full council taking place for the first time in over a year in the council chamber. The chamber had been out of action after the roof partially collapsed. It was then out of action even longer when it was discovered that asbestos seemed to [...]
The new council
Last night gave us the first taste of what the new council is going to be like with our first full (if not ordinary) council meeting since the election. While the meeting was a ‘special’ council there was still enough there to give a flavour of the next four years. The agenda was fairly light, [...]
The London local elections
When I wrote that I thought Wandsworth Labour must have been disappointed with their result I didn’t realise quite how disappointed until I looked at how their colleagues across London performed. Much as it pains me to say it, it was a good night for Labour in London. After the 2006 elections 14 London councils [...]
Four more years
I’m delighted and flattered to have been re-elected as one of the councillors for Shaftesbury. And pleased to have been elected with excellent ward colleagues, Jonathan Cook and Guy Senior. I’m really looking forward to the next four years. It has been a real joy to represent an area I love dearly for the past [...]
Nominated
With only four days of the election campaign behind us (although in reality it’s been much much longer) yesterday saw the first formal step with the close of nominations for the council elections. Efficient as ever I received confirmation of my nomination from Wandsworth today, the full list of nominated candidates will be published on [...]
Dedication to Wandsworth
Wandsworth produces a weekly bulletin of roadworks in the borough which gets circulated and distributed to various people. Each week I look at it, mainly to see if there’s anything major happening in my ward. But it never occurred to me to think much about the senior engineer who produced it. I found out a [...]
Weekly wrap-up, 18 December
Things are getting quieter as we get close to Christmas. While we don’t have a ‘recess’ like Parliament (since we don’t sit, but meet every six weeks or so) the council carries on, there are no formal meetings over the Christmas period. That’s not to say we do nothing. Obviously all the council staff have [...]
Weekly wrap-up, 11 December
Although I usually use this last post of the week to witter on about the past week I’m going start off with an event two weeks ago. Battersea Police Ball I can’t believe I forgot to mention this last week, but on Saturday 28 November I attended, along with about 1,500 other people, the Battersea [...]
Now 99% opinion free
A series of events over the past few weeks have left me realising quite how dangerous it is to hold opinions – to the extent I’m thinking of giving them up. In recent weeks I’ve had two episodes in which my opinion has elicited a surprising response. First when I suggested in my weekly wrap-up [...]
Weekly wrap-up, 23 October
So, for this week’s collection of odds and ends. This week’s photo doesn’t really have any artistic merit – composition and exposure could be better – but it is from Battersea Park where autumn is making itself known. The park really is beautiful at this time of year, and almost magical if you see the [...]
