Kensington & Chelsea cuts Council Tax with “£50 efficiency dividend”
Kensington and Chelsea Council has effectively abandoned plans for a 3.2% Council Tax increase in April and will instead be… Read more »
Councils pay £600 an hour to Council Tax debt chasers
One of the many advantages of lowering Council Tax is that residents are more likely to be able to afford… Read more »
Municipal Lingo: No 1. Judgemental.
A new occasional series on the words encountered in Town Halls. To quote from Yes Minister: "I Brief. You Leak…. Read more »
Grammar schools are safe with us: Kent Council replies
Cllr Mark Dance, the Cabinet Member for Children, Families and Education in Kent County Council responding to Nick Seaton article… Read more »
Bristol Council orders boys club to change “discriminatory” name or lose funding
Shadow Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has the following report on his blog: "Just been to Bristol and feel overwhelmed by… Read more »
Boris biffs the gloomadon poppers
In his New Year message broadcast to cheering crowds, the Mayor of London Boris Johnson declared: "Believe it or not… Read more »
Wyre Forest Council cuts staff
The Birmingham Post reports that Conservative-run Wyre Forest District Council is proposing cutting 125 posts. The Deputy Leader, Cllr Marcus… Read more »
£2,000 a head “diversity” junkets exposed
Good piece in The Sun this morning about various bits of the public sector sending staff off to the luxury… Read more »
Kent grammar schools at risk
Nick Seaton of the Campaign for Real Education says, that despite huge demand, grammar school places in Kent are being… Read more »
Town Hall to House of Commons – Making the Leap
London Assembly member Roger Evans helps to coach potential politicians on getting selected for Parliament. Here he warns how being… Read more »
Tory Council accuses 3,100 residents of racism for opposing gypsy site
Conservative-run Mid Bedfordshire District Council decided to disregard 3,100 out of 3,500 replies to a consultation on plans to build… Read more »
Tea and biscuits? That’ll be £135,000
With a recession biting, councillors should pay for their refreshments says Mark Wallace of the Taxpayers’ Alliance. It may feel… Read more »
Mayor of Croydon has died
Sad news. Cllr Jonathan Driver, the Mayor of Croydon, a former mayor of Lambeth and a Wandsworth school teacher died… Read more »
Cut the council jargon in 2009 or we’ll all be living in LAA-LAA land
Lucy Shersby on her crusade against municipal jargon. Britain is sinking in a tide of gobbledegook – much of it… Read more »
Pay as you throw shunned
A Press Association survey has found considerable reluctance from Councils to take part in the Government’s pay-as-you-throw pilot. One of… Read more »