We still have too many empire builders who want everything to continue as it is, whilst bleating about ‘cuts’.
Labour/Liberal-Democrat/UKIP rule in Norfolk means muddled decision making
By Jonathan Isaby Following the decision of Nofolk County Council Leader Daniel Cox to step down, the controlling Conservative group met yesterday to elect a replacement. The successful candidate for the Tory leadership was Derrick Murphy (pictured), who beat colleagues William Nunn and John Dobson in a three-horse race. He can expect to be rubber […]
Bob Neill, the Shadow Local Government Minister, outlines Conservative plans to halt any attempt by the Government to impose unitary restructuring on Devon, Norfolk and Suffolk before the General election. The last week has seen the latest example of this dying Government’s scorched earth policy. Sadly it is residents in Devon, Norfolk and Suffolk who […]
Norfolk Council leader Cllr Daniel Cox explains how they have set up their own companies to compete to run Council services – and to pitch for business from other Councils. By embracing Margaret Thatcher’s Compulsory Competitive Tendering legislation in the 1980s, Norfolk County Council helped pioneer the use of private enterprise to realise public ambitions. […]
Disturbing piece in the Mail on Sunday about social workers in Norfolk placing two children in care rather than approving them to be adopted by their grandparents. There is a suggestion that the grandparents have been discriminated against because they are Christians. Stories of Politically Correct excesses by Social Services Departments are as commonplace in […]
John Fuller is Leader of South Norfolk Council. Here he lambasts Government proposals to reorganise local government in Norfolk, Suffolk & Devon Last Friday marked the passing of a deadline for ‘stakeholders’ to tell the Boundary Committee what they think of proposals to restructure Local Government in Norfolk, Suffolk & Devon. If enacted, the plans […]