Labour’s economic legacy
The Conservative Party has produced a booklet of images which put Labour’s economic legacy in context. Required reading, especially for …
Category Archives: politics
LEPs shape up
The move to Local Enterprise Partnerships has not been an easy one. It was always going to be messy, changing …
Elected Mayors and Localism
So what’s the process by which Birmingham might get an elected mayor then? Because however many times I read through …
Volunteers doing stuff for nothing
The Big Society may well come to mean government ‘on the cheap’ – after all, it’s probably the only type …
The government can’t create private sector jobs, and nor can the local council
Birmingham spent £46m of Working Neighbourhood Fund money over the last two years trying to help people get into work. …
Councillors marginally more trusted than MPs
Research by The Standards Board has found that the public believe local councillors to be more trustworthy than local MPs. The Board’s …
Politics and the art of making things complicated
Decisions made in local government often come across as being complicated because they are complicated, and the use of technical language is …
£500m Govt aid not helping jobless
Interesting article in the Birmingham Post today about how the public sector led approach to tackling unemployment doesn’t actually appear …
Councils to face restrictions on surveillance (A shameless political rant)
The Home Secretary has announced that councils ‘might in future’ face restrictions on their use of covert surveillance measures. Some …
