From the Canal to Sevenways

Canal27ways: it’s about politics and place

  • Ed Miliband pledges to act on Tax unfairness

    Ed Miliband pledges to act on Tax unfairness

    The elite will not like it one little bit but Ed is absolutely right on this. For too long the unfairness in our tax system has been left unchallenged. The fact that there would be no deficit if HMRC collected the revenue that the Government calculates should be forthcoming from the current UK economy makes this…

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  • School Crossing Patrols

    Not Easy. I think we should have more school crossing places, not less. I can't make a case for any of the patrols to be removed. However, we're in a consultation and some crossings have received more publicity than others. I've therefore used the opportunity that being a councillor gives me to make a special…

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  • Quite demanding training on Safeguarding at Sale West tonight. Hard work but useful from School Governor perspective. — Mike Cordingley (@MikeCordingley) January 21, 2015 Rarely political at GGH HQ but threats 2 services too serious to ignore #stopthecutstrafford reliance on volunteers like us not the answer — Gorgeous Gorse Hill (@gorse_hill) January 21, 2015

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  • Test Post

    The hosting for this site has changed and whilst I've been able to transfer the blog, there's a few irritating glitches which I'll work on when I have time. Meanwhile I've just utilised a standard theme to keep it going.

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Anything you think I should be looking at?

  1. I’m probably stretching the semantics calling it privatisation, but wanted to stress the extent to which management of important and…

  2. I don’t think you can compare privatisation with the Amey contract which is outsourcing. From memory some golden rules of…