Labour-run Sheffield told to ditch Student Tax
What has Labour-run Sheffield City Council (or Labour-run Manchester or Bristol where Labour has more councillors than anyone else) got… Read more »
Privatising libraries is better than closing libraries
Tim Grier, the Managing Director of John Laing Integrated Services, gave an interesting talk at the recent Conservative Way Forward… Read more »
Olympics give tourism to London a lasting boost
Hosting the Olympics a year ago was far more expensive than was necessary, or originally budgeted for. Tessa Jowell claimed… Read more »
Council by-election results from yesterday
Merton London Borough – Colliers Wood: Lab 1685, C 441, Ukip 157, Lib Dem 52. (May 2010 – Three seats… Read more »
Faster action to remove illegal traveller sites
The Communities and Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles is helping councils clamp down faster on illegal encampments and unauthorised traveller… Read more »
Kent’s adoption parties mean more children have the chance of a loving home
Cllr Jenny Whittle, the Cabinet Member for Specialist Children's Services on Kent County Council, says remembering the human factor can… Read more »
Boris offers a positive Conservative alternative to Labour’s mess on education
John Bald says Boris Johnson and his deputy Munira Murza have assembled an impressive team Boris Johnson's education enquiry and… Read more »
Labour is opposing a new Church of England free school for Fulham
Labour's stance on free schools is as confused as ever. Officially its position has thawed – provided that new schools… Read more »
Whatever you might read in The Independent, in Cornwall the spare room subsidy cut is working
More news on the truth behind the deferential treatment which The Independent gave to Labour's claims about the spare room… Read more »
DEFRA spend £85,000 pushing for Council Tax rises
The Daily Mail reports that the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs believe residents would like to have higher… Read more »
Doncaster Council tops the league for zero hours contracts
Yesterday Mark Wallace reported on the hypocrisy of the Labour MPs denouncing zero hours contracts – while taking money from… Read more »
Labour’s opposition to mutuals prompts them to lose control of Redcar and Cleveland Council
Cllr John Hannon and Cllr David Williams, of Redcar and Cleveland Council, have quit the Labour Party and now sit… Read more »
Spare Room Subsidy: Again Labour ignore scope for swapping with the overcrowded
The Labour Party are still attacking the cut in the spare room subsidy or "bedroom tax" as they call it… Read more »
Sandwell Council’s Children’s Services is inadequate – but so is Ofsted
An Ofsted report has found Sandwell Council's Children's Services Department to be "inadequate." The trouble with the report is that… Read more »
Council by-election results from yesterday
Amber Valley Borough – Codnor and Waingroves: Lab 557, Ukip 250, C 219, Lib Dem 39. (May 2012 – Lab… Read more »