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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…
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Weekly Update 16th May 2011 (more of a gripe this week)
Planning – don’t you just despair? There’s something about planning committee that just grates with me. Maybe it’s the faux inclusivity and bonhommie, maybe it’s the fake veneer of non-political objectivity. Every cell of the body of every councillor on every planning committee is by definition ‘political’. It’s…
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Kate Green’s Blog
Kate Green publishes a weekly blog at www.kategreen.org Here’s her latest update This was the week in parliament when the cracks between the Tories and the LibDems really began to show. Tory gloating following last week’s truly terrible election results for the LibDems has blown apart the love-in…