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Getting it right for the rest of the parliament.
As I write this I don’t know what is in the joint statement from the Government about the remainder of the period to the General Election in 2015. So this is Mystic Richard’s predictions and my own...
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Labour Humiliated in Liverpool
I couldn’t make this up so see below: What the Echo said What my press release said What my motion to the next council meeting says to try and resolve the situation. (This has been agreed with the...
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The Ongoing farce that is Liverpool City Council
I shudder to think just how many council meetings I have sat through in Liverpool in the 30 years that I have been a councillor but I doubt that there there was one that could be counted more peculiar...
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Mayor of Liverpool loses (self) control!
Dear Mayor Anderson, Thank you for your somewhat intemperate e-mail to which I now respond. I have no need to shift the blame for leaks to the Labour Group because that is where they originate. Since...
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Liverpool’s Budget – blowing away the smoke and polishing the mirrors.
So now we have the final recommendation from the Mayor about next year’s budget and what does it actually reveal? Firstly let us look behind the headlines and get some facts. There have not been £32...
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Labour’s consultation shame in Liverpool
I hope that regular readers of my blog will forgive me for returning once again to the subject of Liverpool’s bins and recycling.this time there is a new twist – the shame of Labour’s lack of belief in...
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We must all fight proposals for the sale of Liverpool’s green spaces
Last night I attended a meeting in Mossley Hill ward called by Cllr Tina Gould and Paul Childs. The meeting was about the half baked decision to site a school on Jericho Lane. About 50 local people...
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Extraordinary council meeting called to discuss land grab proposals
Liverpool’s Liberal Democrats have requisitioned an extraordinary meeting of the council to try and get Liverpool’s controlling Labour Group to think again about building on green sites such as Jericho...
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Who should councillors listen to most?
Last night was a pretty bloody affair at Liverpool Town Hall. The public were well behaved – the Labour Party was not. Knowing that they had lost the argument about the sale of land and the people of...
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Final resolution for Special Council meeting
Because things have happened since we first requistioned a meeting of Liverpool City Council to consider green sapce issues across the city we have slightly amended the original resolution that we put...
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Pickles Blunders Again
It’s a long time since I considered the doings of the ‘Owl of the Remove’ Mr Pickles. This time he has had a go at Liverpool City Council’s Labour Leaders which is unjust. If I thought that his story...
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Liverpool’s Mayoralty – A year of Consistent Failure
I’m about to go on holiday and whilst I am away we will ‘celebrate’ the first year since the crowning of Joe Anderson as the Mayor of Liverpool. So I thought that it would be worth stimulating a debate...
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The truth about the Militant Era
It’s very interesting to read what Derek Hatton has to say about the Militant era. Most of it pure invention! There are not many of us left in any Party that were active in the 80s but I was there and...
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The Chickens Come Home to Roost for Labour
In 2011 the Labour Party in Liverpool and elsewhere delivered leaflet after leaflet which repeated the same lie – Lib Dems wanted to cut bus passes for the elderly. The source of this story was a...
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Fighting the ‘Bedroom Tax’
My colleague Cllr Pat Moloney was so appalled at the dismal performance of Minister Esther McVey on the Today programme that he has tabled the attached resolution to the next meeting of the City...
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What is an Opposition Leader for?!
This may seem a funny question to ask and particularly to do so on a day when we have a full council. I am sure that Labour colleagues will wish to express an opinion on this and will do so ironically,...
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Government Action on Payday Lending
Over the past few days the debate has raged over how to deal with pay day lenders, loan sharks and even worse and more aggressive types of lending practice. It was unfortunate that the C of E was found...
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People will not have their say on fortnightly bin collections in Liverpool
I am appalled at the machinations of the Labour Party in Liverpool. Last Friday at 24 hours notice they made a massive change to consultation plans concerning the introduction of a fortnightly bin...
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Chaos on the Street of Liverpool
We had a typical Scouse response last night when we were out door knocking in Church Ward. “You can tell the Labour Party is back in control – the bloody streets are filthy again!” It has to be said...
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Bins Dispute shows Mayoral Problems
Firstly because I do not want this to be seen as a personal attack on the Mayor of Liverpool I want to make two things clear at the outset: 1. I am delighted that on his return from holiday the Mayor...
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