If you have Conservative Councils wasting staff time and Council Taxpayers money on damaging thought control sessions then what is the incentive to vote Conservative?
It was decided that, despite repeated promises, the experiment, which was due to end in March, would be continued, effectively indefinitely, without a vote and without a consultation.
The Council agreed a budget schedule freezing the annual garden waste collection charge. Yet it has been increased by 25 per cent.
One option is that as well as revaluation, there would be changes to the bands themselves. The system would become more progressive as a result.
Often children in mainstream education are deemed to require highly expensive institutional care. Leicestershire spent £732,502 for just one such child last year. Barnet £716,318, Doncaster £677,857, Hampshire £671,594 and Cornwall £629,200.
A new machine can provide more effective repairs at four times the speed and half the cost. But highways officers, and the contractors they use, are not incentivised to innovate.
Labour has inherited our great innovations – Freeport and the National Marine Park. But we shake off any blame or criticism and regroup to come back stronger.
We are calling on the Government to allow social housing rents to be set directly by local authorities rather than centrally. This would ensure the long-term certainty necessary to deliver more social homes. Councils would also be truly accountable to tenants.
There was a basic choice of taking a deal – or the real possibility of no more economic development money.
Given the potential for further significant increases, it is surely time to question why Suffolk has so many local authorities.
Roads are disintegrating, drains go uncleared, weeds grow unhindered, endless cycle lanes, and the Clean Air Zone saga have shown what a Labour government devoid of ideas and principles looks like.
Rewarding financially incontinent local authorities, with the consequent demotivating effects on work for their residents, is a road to ruin.
Starmer proposes a war on casual workers. The flexible arrangements applied by many Labour councils would be made illegal.
Given more control and fairer settlements, councils could cut local taxes, back small businesses, and invest in preventative social services. Ultimately, power would rest with communities to kick out wasteful councillors and reward the prudent.
The Council received a Government grant of £12.2 million to refurbish the old Swimming Baths. Labour decided they would use the funding as a contribution towards building a new Leisure Centre which in addition would require borrowing of over £20 million.