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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.
Tag Archives: Piers McCausland
Getting the Mayor on Twitter
I go through phases of Twitter evangelism, and while I have my doubts about its value, I cannot deny that I enjoy using it enormously. But my passion alone has not been enough to persuade one of my colleagues, Piers McCausland, to use it actively. I did get him to set up an account, which
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The Worshipful, The Mayor of Wandsworth
After the tragic death of the Mayor of Wandsworth, Brian Prichard, it’s time to choose a new Mayor. And I’m delighted that Piers McCausland will be taking on the responsibility of first citizen tonight. Piers and I were both elected to the council in 1998 and I don’t think anyone would disagree with me saying
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Local control of business rates
One of my colleagues, Piers McCausland, has written a little piece over on ConservativeHome about the lack of local control of business rates. Assuming many readers of this blog do not read ConservativeHome’s local government pages I have copied the article below. It raises an interesting point. Part of what makes a successful community are
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