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Being Labour, Cotterill on the Council, The world beyond West Lancashire
Iraq, Tanzania and mayoral imbalance
One of the mild amusements at last week’s Full Council meeting came when the Tory Mayor allowed a Tory councillor time to develop an analogy gleaned from his working life.
This was about how he once went to Iraq, and how his experience of Sunni and Shi’ite divisions reminded him of his current experience of the Labour and Tory [...] -
Being Labour, Breaking News, The world beyond West Lancashire
Will West Lancs Tories denounce Gibb the Elitist?
My press release from earlier on:
A Labour councillor, Paul Cotterill, has challenged West Lancashire Conservatives to disassociate themselves from the remarks of the new Schools Minister, Nick Gibb, made on his first full day in office. Cllr Cotterill says the remarks are an insult to staff and students at Edge Hill Uinversity.
Mr Gibb is reported [...] -
The world beyond West Lancashire
Labour councillor saves dying child in cynical attempt to garner votes for his party
Yeah, yeah, I know it was twenty years ago, but this picture’s only just come to light, sent to be by an American photographer, John Trotter, who happened to be there to record the scene.
I’d never seen the photo before, as John only recently got in touch. It shows me and colleagues resuscitating a young girl who’d [...] -
Bickerstaffe Thoughts, Breaking News, The world beyond West Lancashire
Exclusive: Bickerstaffe Record media takeover plans revealed
The Bickerstaffe Record has taken its first step towards Murdoch-style domination of British news media.
In a move which has taken many established but behind-the-times ’new media’ pundits off guard, the Bickerstaffe Record’s tweet account ‘Bickerrecord’ today received huge nationwide publicity in the free Metro newspapers (hat tip Charlie109) in at least London, the North West and Yorkshire (hat tip Maggie Thatcher).
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Being Labour, The world beyond West Lancashire
Giving up on No.2
Regular readers will know that the Bickerstaffe Record was inordinately, ridiculously and vaingloriously proud of being voted in at no.2 on the national Total Politics awards for top councillor blogs, run by Total Politics magazine.
But some things are more important than inordinate, ridiculous and vainglorious pride.
If Total Politics magazine continues with its plan to publish a long interview [...] -
Being Labour, Cotterill on the Council, The world beyond West Lancashire
Tory privatisation plans – we need answers and we need them now
On 13 January I broke this news about the Tories secret plans to privatise massive parts of council service both at county and borough levels across Lancashire, culminating in the release of a contract notice, worth £1.9 billion over ten years, through the Official Journal of the European Union.
No councillors were told. No unions were told. It only [...] -
Being Labour, The world beyond West Lancashire
George Osborne and his reliance on the Soviet Russians
Chris Dillow has done a good job at pointing out the utter factual wrongness of George Osborne assertion yesterday that:
‘The world is watching Britain at the moment. It is casting doubt on our country’s creditworthiness. It is questioning our resolve to deal with our debts. And when that starts to happen, then long term interest [...] -
About me, The world beyond West Lancashire
‘And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three: but the greatest of these is charity.’
‘And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three: but the greatest of these is charity.’ (I Corinthians ch. 13.v.1).
I’ll just take a moment from the hurly burly to mark the passing of Fr Aengus Finucane, the founder of Concern Worldwide, the aid agency I worked for for a number of years.
I think we only met the [...] -
The world beyond West Lancashire
Wanabee Tory Chancellor telling lies on live tv
Here’s the wannabee Tory chancellor Phil Hammond telling lies on live TV last night (go to 14mins 50 sec in to listen):
‘We need to send a clear signal to the markets. Two of the credit rating agencies have already warned us that the government’s triple A credit rating will be at risk if the next government [...] -
Breaking News, The world beyond West Lancashire
Low speed thoughts on high speed rail
I thought I should put virtual pen to virtual paper about the report published on 26 August on the possibility for a high speed rail link between London and Glasgow,with spurs to Manchester and Liverpool. I have been asked for a local journo for some comment ad it would be easy enough to reel off the [...]
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