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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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Wandsworth Business Partnership
There are over 12,000 businesses in Wandsworth, employing (if my sums are right) over 70,000 people, but for some reason business lacks a voice in Wandsworth. That’s not to say business is ignored; we do plenty to communicate with businesses, each town centre has a council employed Town Centre Manager, working with the local town
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Posted in Business
Also tagged Cineworld, investment, Wandsworth Business Forum, Wandsworth Business Partnership
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Maslow for government
Nat Wei, the Government’s Big Society advisor, has an interesting blog which often highlights good Big Society examples. It now appears he’s rating them as well and recently introduced his ‘power rating’ (and thanks to Warren Hatter for highlighting it) which “seeks to express the increasing degree in which a platform or initiative takes power
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More direct democracy
Another edict extending direct democracy has come forth from Eric Pickles. This time that a local referendum will be forced whenever a local council increases council tax by more than a pre-set amount. As a government fan boy you would expect me to support it, but while I’m definitely in the fan boy category (why
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Why do you like the Wandsworth sausage?
Government at every level tends to be set up like a machine. You put something in one end, and a set process is followed until something else comes out of the other. To misquote Bismarck it is a sausage machine. Quite how efficient this machine is varies enormously. I’m tempted to suggest it’s correlated to
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The benefits of low taxation
Today Alistair Darling will announce that Labour have finally seen the benefits of low taxation. Or has he? The BBC is currently reporting an expected temporary reduction in VAT to 15%, along with the introduction of a new higher rate tax band and the postponement of various other changes. In other words, we’re increasing taxes, not
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Posted in Politics
Also tagged Conservative, council tax, Darling, Gordon Brown, Labour, Politics, tax, VAT
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