October 2009

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  Germany better than Alistair Campbell at rubbishing George Osborne

  10.29.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Yesterday Alistair Campbell was in the FT trying to tear to shreds out of George Osborne’s already tattered reputation for understanding anything at all about economics. 
  That was decent enough fun, and it’s been even more fun to see the panicky reactions by righwing bloggers to the FT’s consistently ant-Tory economic policy line (as reported here by Hopi).
  Now, I kind of [...]

• Being Labour, Cotterill on the Council

  Good news as only usual level of disrespect accorded

  10.27.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  When you’re a Labour councillor sitting in a Council chamber with lots of Conservatives around, including a Conservative Mayor overseeing proceedings, it’s important to thank heaven for small mercies.
  So it’s good to be able to report that the current Mayor was only as disrespectful as his predecessors at the Council meeting last week.  The fact that [...]

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  ‘Small town politics’ and lessons for big government from 50 years ago

  10.24.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  As John Denham MP plans for a radical shake up of local government, and as the Tories plan for an, erm, radical shake up of local government, this  may be appropriate:
  ‘We have heard a great deal in the past few years about the problems of local government – the problem of areas, the problem of finance, [...]

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  Griffin and his father

  10.23.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Whether or not Griffin’s father actually fought in WWII, the very idea that he should invoke his father in the name of loathesome organisation makes me feel slightly sick.
  This is not least because I recently invoked the memory of my late father against the ideas of Griffin and his scum.
  I feel for Griffin’s father that he should have [...]

• Being Labour, Cotterill on the Council, Leisure and culture

  When a million’s not enough

  10.22.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Tory-controlled West Lancashire Borough Council hands over a million quid a year to Serco to let it mismanage its leisure facilities and charge for stuff that’s free in neighbouring areas.
  It also give £16,000 a year or so to West Lancashire Leisure Trust (WLLT), who are supposed to manage what Serco get up to.  (Yeah, right).  WLLT [...]

• Cotterill on the Council

  Ormskirk air pollution: one year gone missing?

  10.22.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  This is what the report to last night’s council on the Air Quality Management Area (AQMA) in Ormskirk (reported on in the local press here) says:
  ‘In the 2006 Update and Screening Assessment it was concluded that there was a potential exceedence of the objective for Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) in Stanley Street Ormskirk and that a Detailed [...]

• Being Labour, Breaking News

  Bickerstaffe Record embroiled in Biscuitgate

  10.21.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  News reaches the team at the Bickerstaffe Record that Cameron has used Prime Minister Question to accuse GB of not being very choosy about biscuits.  Or something.
  This silly question emanates directly from this silly post by silly Tory blogger Iain Dale, who blogged sillily about it yesterday.
  Being at the forefront of the crack Labour HQ biscuit incident rebuttal [...]

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  A nightmare come true

  10.21.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’ve never used this blog to cover the ongoing issue about the traveller site on White Moss Lane, the road that runs parellel to the M58 just a few yards to the East of the Bickerstaffe boundary.  Nor have I addressed the complexities of the matter in the press, preferring to act ‘behind the scenes’ [...]

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  Cameron top 10 ‘total arse’ episodes

  10.20.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I see amateur blogger Iain Dale has followed Liberal Conspiracy’s ‘top 10’ lead (i. e. mine) with a Gordon Brown-based effort.
  Daley’s is a bit rubbish, to be honest, but you can’t blame the lad for trying to spice up a waning blog by modelling his stuff on an increasingly popular one.   
  We’re always happy to help struggling bloggers here [...]

• Being Labour

  Tory electoral strategy unravelling before our very eyes

  10.18.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  I try not to make a habit of simply linking to newspaper stories, because that’s not proper blogging, but on this occasion I’ll make an exception; with much of the leftie blogosphere still focused on Jan Moir scandal, I’m not sure the story of the Tories’ electoral strategy unravelling before our very eyes is getting the [...]

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