Category Archives: Local government

Posts in category: "Local government":

Two-timing

08May09 – 00:14

I have been letting my colleagues here at Common Endeavour down a bit by hardly posting here at all.  This post is part of my occasional series of insights into the life of a PPC, and along the way it may partly explain my slackness in contributing here.
One of the downsides of being a PPC, [...]

By Andrew Skudder | Also posted in Labour | Tagged | Comments (0)

Of Fluffy Kittens and Dead Bunny Rabbits

23Feb09 – 14:09

Over on LibCon, our CE comrade Paulie has written an article (and can I just say Paulie, it's fantastic) about the narrow populism and it's relationship to liberty. It's come in for a few bits of criticism such as this from cjcjc:
Paul Evans well demonstrates the liberal hatred of the masses…how very dare they have [...]

By Andreas Paterson | Also posted in Moral panics | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Tories: diminishing the role of the councillor

20Feb09 – 11:35

Jeremy Beecham: "The truth is that the effect of these proposals would be to undercut representative local democracy and diminish the appeal of service as a local councillor."

By Paul Evans | Also posted in Tories | Tagged | Comments (0)