Assuming councils have to cut some services, where does theaxe fall? An article on The Guardian website written by theConservative leader of Oxfordshire Council, Keith Mitchell, suggests libraries. However, the bookish county has risen up, with its literatiadding their outrage to the general disapproval. Understandable, too. Morally, libraries should not shut,particularly as UK literacy rates [...]
If, as David Cameron suggested atthe weekend, multiculturalism has failed, his government is doing its best tohasten the demise of this “experiment”, as some describe it, with an attack onrefugee services. And for those services centralgovernment cannot reach, Cameron and co can always depend on its allies inlocal government to do the dirty work vicariously. The [...]
Loved this from today’s Guardian. Lord Wei of Shoreditch, who is heading the government’s state cop-out called Big Society is complaining that the role is occupying too much of his spare time. Shocked at the hours he is having to devote to the role – and unlike many Tories devoid of a private income of [...]
There was some good news in the public sector housingreforms announced yesterday: associations that sell their properties to tenantswill be forced to re-invest in housing stock – unlike after the Thatcher reforms ofthe 1980s when providers used the booty as they wished.
What happened to small is beautiful? The three Conservativecouncils in London that plan to amalgamate their services seem intent onregional government – but I fear something more sinister is in the offing.
First, the Conservatives announced that a down payment of£8,000 on retirement would guarantee long-term residential care for life shouldit be needed. We didn’t believe them.
Local government minister Grant Shapps sounded thoroughlyexasperated when he appeared on television yesterday reprimanding Barnetcouncillors in north London for awarding their senior figures huge increases in allowances.
Discontent continues in David Cameron’s favourite borough,Hammersmith and Fulham, in west London.
The unofficial pre-general election campaign got under waythis week with both Labour and the Conservatives targeting specific groups,suggesting that social care could have a more visible presence over the monthsahead.
David Cameron is taking two weeks’ compassionate leave afterthe death of his six-year-old son, Ivan. It is the very least he will need.
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