Tag Archives: localism
Should failure be the new black?
On Wednesday I attended a
Free councillors?
John Redwood is not everyone’s cup of tea, even within the Conservative Party, and while I don’t read his blog that often he has an interesting post today. Asking (but not answering) the question Do Councillors want to be free? he discusses the problems of officer led authorities: Labour arrived in office in 1997 keen [...]
The new politics
I only occasionally comment on politics on here. I think I managed to avoid it almost entirely during the election campaign, and to a degree I’m rather proud of that: avoiding politics during an election is what 98% of the population do which makes me decidedly normal. The irony is that I’m now getting more [...]
Lobby your MP for public spending accountability
Tomorrow (Wednesday) sees an opposition day debate on ‘local spending reports’. These were introduced by the Sustainable Communities Act 2007 and were intended to detail all the public spending in a borough. You might think that already exists. For example it’s easy to identify what the council is spending in Wandsworth, everything the council spends [...]
Is all communication good communication?
I’m sure many are getting bored with my council surgeries and engagement obsession, but sadly for those that are it’s my blog – and if a blog has any point it’s surely to allow the blogger an outlet for all those thoughts and ideas which he worries bore his wife far too much – so [...]
