Labour-run South Tyneside increases Council Tax by 2.9% and cuts services
The Foreign Secretary David Milliband turned up in Hammersmith last week to attack the record of my council. He appeared… Read more »
Mixed results from yesterday’s council by-elections
Primrose, South Tyneside (Jarrow) a Lab hold. Con vote was 6% -7, Lab 42% -10, LD 5% from nowhere, Ind… Read more »
Councils cover up incompetent teachers
Figures released in a report yesterday by the National Centre for Social Research show many councils are failing to report incompetent… Read more »
Penge deserves better
The Bromley Times reports that Cllr Karen Roberts, a Labour councillor for Penge and Cator Ward, has only attended one… Read more »
Lib Dem councillor defects to Conservatives
Cllr Joyce Sortwell of Eastleigh Council has defected from the Lib Dems to the Conservatives. She says: “This has been a… Read more »
Council officers should be named
Nick Seaton of the Campaign for Real Education says accountability should include identifying who councils rely on for advice. Too… Read more »
Boris Question Time: Labour attack making Earls Court an Opportunity Area
Labour has attacked the designation of the area around Earls Court as an Opportunity Area in the revised London Plan…. Read more »
Hillingdon freezes Council Tax but Lib Dem Kingston has 1.9% rise
Conservative-run Hillingdon Council are freezing the Council Tax for the second year running. Savings include £250,000 on "Individualised Budgets and Direct… Read more »
Hyndburn freezes Council Tax
Last night Hyndburn became the latest Conservative council to freeze the Council Tax. The council leader Cllr Peter Britcliffe said… Read more »
Welsh Council Tax to rise at more than twice the rate of England
Councils in Wales will put up the Council Tax by an average of 3.6% this year – more than twice… Read more »
Council Tax bills in England to rise another £23
I mentioned yesterday that it is likely that the average Council Tax bills from Conservative councils in London are actually… Read more »
What do BNP councillors believe?
The neo-Nazi allegiances of the British National Party leadership have been well established. There will sometimes be indignant denials but… Read more »
Richmond Council has spent £85,980 on Away Days.
Lib Dem-run Richmond Council in south west London was among the Councils named and shamed by a Mail on Sunday… Read more »
Tower Hamlets Labour councillor defects to the Conservatives
Cllr Anwara Ali, the Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing on Tower Hamelts Council, has defected from labour to the… Read more »
Do you live in a “Nuclear Free Authority”?
During the 1980s era of the "looney left" Labour councils would frequently declare themselves "Nuclear Free Zones." Cllr Iain Lindley… Read more »