Wokingham Council bans jargon
Wokingham Council leader Cllr David Lee has declared war on gobbledegook. Predictors of beaconicity, network model and provider vehicles have… Read more »
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Non-jobs of the year
The Taxpayers Alliance keeps a regular tally Non-jobs of the week. There are an array of nannying, politically correct, superfluous,… Read more »
Fight this Big Brother threat to our children
Yesterday Cllr Merrick Cockell criticised Government plans for a children’s database. Here Nick Seaton of the Campaign for Real Education… Read more »
Eric Pickles plans purge of ‘Town Hall fat cats’
According to reports in The Times and Financial Times Eric Pickles MP wants to encourage local councils to cut costs… Read more »
No to children’s ID cards
Cllr Merrick Cockell, the Leader of Kensington and Chelsea Council and Chairman of the Conservative Councillors’ Association, says that parents,… Read more »
Worst Council of 2008: Hackney’s late entry
Tens of thousands of market traders across Britain break the law by serving customers using imperial measures. Enforcement of the… Read more »
Our schools policy is not socialist
Cllr Patricia O’Brien, Conservative Portfolio Holder for Children, Schools and Young People in Suffolk County Council responds to Nick Seaton’s… Read more »
Dudley Council spends £174,000 on closed school due for demolition
The Sunday Telegraph’s Waste Watch has the story. Dudley is a Conservative Council. It does sound like another case of… Read more »
No collaboration with revaluation
Mark Wallace of the TaxPayers’ Alliance urges Conservative Councils to resist Labour’s plans for tax hikes on "nice" localities. The… Read more »
Eric Pickles warns of “nice neighbourhood tax”
Boxing Day’s Telegraph carried the following story: Labour planning secret tax on ‘nice houses’. It appears that Labour has divided… Read more »
Should Councils be doing more on drug rehabilitation?
As Shadow Home Secretary Oliver Letwin argued that a "quantum leap" was needed in drug rehabilitation if crime was to… Read more »
Eric Pickles answers a final tranche of your questions
Here is the final installment of answers to the questions you recently posed to shadow communities and local government secretary,… Read more »
Eric Pickles answers more of your questions
We have already published the first installment of answers to the questions you recently posed about local government reorganisation to… Read more »
Blame Professor David Hargreaves
Nick Seaton of the Campaign for Real Education on the ideological roots behind the problems in our schools. Just possibly… Read more »
Eric Pickles: I’ll have a pearl-handled revolver waiting in my drawer for the first civil servant who suggests another local government reorganisation
Last month we asked ConservativeHome readers to submit questions for Eric Pickles, the shadow secretary of state for communities and… Read more »