Why is only Hammersmith and Fulham cutting Council Tax?
Even with the recession biting, almost every Council in the country is expected to push up Council Tax bills in… Read more »
Revealed: Threat to close good schools in Stoke
Nick Seaton of the Campaign for Real Education warns that Building Schools for Future money could come at the price… Read more »
Confusion over honouring Burma veterans in Thurrock
At the last meeting of Conservative-run Thurrock Council the following motion was passed: "That the Council resolves to convene a… Read more »
How Conservatives win in Gloucestershire
Cllr Barry Dare, the leader of Gloucestershire County Council, says cutting council waste to fund more police on the beat… Read more »
Latest by-election results
Birchills Leamore, Wlasall MBC (Walsall North) Con gain from Lab. Full result still to come. Kenn Valley, Teignbridge DC (Central… Read more »
Is the LGA a trade union that defends all Councils good or bad?
Cllr Margaret Eaton, a Conservative councillor but who has a non partisan role as Chairman of the Local Government Association,… Read more »
Money to burn
Shadow Fire Minister Stewart Jackson MP regrets that Labour have no abandoned John Prescott’s regionalist agenda – vast sums are… Read more »
From Private Eye’s Rotten Boroughs column
Items include a mention of Haringey Council’s communications team being "highly commended" in the recent PR Week awards. As Private… Read more »
Hammersmith and Fulham cuts Council Tax by 3% again
Very proud to report that my local council, Hammersmith and Fulham, is cutting the Council Tax by 3% in the… Read more »
Let Councils open new grammar schools
Bob McCartney, Chairman of the National Grammar Schools Association, says saving our 164 grammar schools does not go far enough…. Read more »
Baby P: Haringey Councillors cling to their jobs
Evening Standard account today on the confidence vote proposed by the Lb Dem opposition on Haringey Council into Council leader… Read more »
Leeds united?
Generally political coverage gets preoccupied with Westminster – with even the most trivial and speculative gaining attention so it is… Read more »
Mind your language
Hammersmith and Fulham Council leader Cllr Stephen Greenhalgh says its not enough to banish banal left wing jargon. We need… Read more »
Boris’s cultural plans for London
Strange to think that a year ago we were all rather worried about drift in Boris Johnson’s campaign for Mayor… Read more »
Local democracy: Dan is the man with a plan
Tory Euro MP Daniel Hannan says that local councillors should be given hugely more power from the centre. Here’s something… Read more »