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Weekly Update 20th June 2011
The Economics of Hope Ed Balls’ call for a cut in VAT was timely. The UK economy is flat-lining as was feared by Labour. George Osborne’s reliance on savage cuts to eradicate the deficit without a strategy for growth risks consigning the UK to the slow lane. Unless…
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Weekly Update 6th June 2011
A Conundrum in the Park We three Gorse Hill Councillors along with our Longford and Stretford colleagues descended upon Stretford High School on Monday night as a consultation on new sports facilities got underway. This was not an easy meeting. The ongoing saga of the giant Tesco casts…
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Trafford General Hospital Facing Real Threat of Private Ownership
Today’s Manchester Evening News Story on the Battle to stop Trafford General Hospital being sold to private sector should surely ring alarm bells for all citizens of Trafford. We’ve all seen the shocking lowering of standards and treatment meted out at Winterbourne View, a private run hospital for…
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Weekly Update 30th May 2011
Council gets back in its stride MondayExecutive Meeting of Council Top item on agenda was the consultation on ‘home to school’ transport. Essentially we can anticipate that after the consultation there will be much less support for getting children to schools that are further away. This includes children…
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Local Trains for Local People and Local Growth
I was really pleased to see this press release from the Local Government Association. Councils back call for greater involvement in railways LGA Media Release – 23 May 2011 Responding to the McNulty report’s call for local authorities to have more involvement in rail franchises, Cllr Peter Box,…
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Weekly Update 23rd May 2011
Planning – don’t you just despair? part two Last week I was criticising the craven compliance towards officers and the politically blessed that meant our planning system in this country still owed more to medieval petitions from commoners to the Dukes and Duchesses than it did an objective…