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Hello London – Liverpool calling
Apparently there is a mayoral election on at the moment. It gets tremendous amounts of publicity for candidates called Brian, Jenny, Ken and Boris. “That’s funny”, say people in Liverpool, “we have 12...
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“Shirley Porter reloaded”. My view of the Policy Exchange Report
I get increasingly upset by the quality of reports coming out of most think tanks. They come up with stuff that cannot be used practically, which is insular and which takes no real account of the...
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Why there will never again be a Tory Government
This is a conversation I have had recently with a Tory councillor. Me: Why is the Tory Party obsessed with gay marriage and Europe? Tory: Yes no-one really cares about these things outside the Party...
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Liverpool City Council motion: Regional and local public sector pay
This is a resolution that I have tabled to the next meeting of the City Council. It has been written for me by the research department of the TUC. At our recent conference we roundly condemned the...
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So you think the wealth gap is growing? Wrong
One of the reasons that I now read the Independent is the excellent analysis and writing of John Rentoul. This is the latest example of his work on equality which I repeat in full. Indeed if anything,...
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Getting it right for the rest of the parliament.
As I write this I don’t know what is in the joint statement from the Government about the remainder of the period to the General Election in 2015. So this is Mystic Richard’s predictions and my own...
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Liverpool’s Budget – blowing away the smoke and polishing the mirrors.
So now we have the final recommendation from the Mayor about next year’s budget and what does it actually reveal? Firstly let us look behind the headlines and get some facts. There have not been £32...
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We must all fight proposals for the sale of Liverpool’s green spaces
Last night I attended a meeting in Mossley Hill ward called by Cllr Tina Gould and Paul Childs. The meeting was about the half baked decision to site a school on Jericho Lane. About 50 local people...
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World Holocaust Day makes us think
This morning was a time which was reflective but uplifting at the same time. At 9.30 I laid a wreath in our Garden of Peace in St John’s Gardens with Rabbi Mordechai Wollenberg. The sash on the wreath...
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Joe Anderson and Liverpool sidelined by other Labour Leaders
For the past 4 years I have campaigned for the creation of a combined authority for the 6 councils that make up the Liverpool conurbation. Such a body is absolutely vital if we are all to attract...
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Who are you – oo-oo – oo –oo?
Okay so that has outed me as a CSI lover. That music always excites me before the team go in and solve another major mystery in 45 minutes. But the discussions about the Party’s future, shrill and...
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Redrow Boss Challenged to Public Debate in Liverpool
I have invited John Tutte the Group Chief Executive of Redrow Homnes to debate with me issues in his reply to my challenge to him to heed the results of his consultation process over Sefton Park...
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Liverpool’s Feuding Labour Brothers!
Sorry folks but they are at it again. Did you see the Echo earlier this week? Well it had Joe Anderson (Liverpool Labour) in the heavyweight corner having ago at Phil Davies (Labour Wirral) in the...
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What Next for Calderstones Park?
Cllr Richard Kemp CBE, 16, Dovedale Road, Liverpool L18 1DW Richard.kemp@liverlibdems.org.uk October 2014 Dear Friend, Labour Attack on Calderstones Park and other green spaces The City Council has...
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The never ending waste of cash in Labour Liverpool
Sometimes I have to pinch myself when I see a report coming through of the way that the council spends its money. Or rather how the council spends YOUR money! Just weeks after we heard from the Echo...
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How do people live on £67,000 per year?
Believe it or not this is a genuine question. It is occasioned of course by Sir Malcolm Rifkind MP making it clear that he couldn’t live on such a low figure. My query is how could you spend that much...
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So now its ‘Game On’ for the Liberal Democrats
After a dignified and revealing election we now have a new Leader. Of course as most people know I voted for Tim Farron but it really would not bothered me one jot if Norman Lamb had won. What the...
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Liverpool’s Terrible Record for Freedom of Information Requests
Liverpool City Council makes MI6 look open and transparent! I have been struck recently by just how bad Liverpool is at answering Freedom of Information requests. This was particularly brought home to...
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Corbyn Cult shrinking fast
I just find it amazing that the Leader of the Opposition is even more unpopular than the Leader of the most cack-handed Government in centuries. Corbyn will never, ever be Prime Minister Theresa May...
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Change UK – The big question is for the Lib Dems
I don’t think anyone was quite sure what this logo was supposed to mean which was perhaps not surprising in a Party where people joined from different traditions and therefore had no clear mutual...
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