Budget 2011, time for growth
This week’s Budget has clearly got to be focussed on stimulating the private sector and on putting in place the …
Tag Archives: politics
Total Place and Accountability
Birmingham is to be one of the pilot areas for the government’s new ‘Total Place’ initiative . This is, by all accounts, …
Flooding in Birmingham – part 2
The Local Government Association has called for the government to think again on funding councils for their new ‘flood role’: …
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 …
What kind of city centre do we want?
The ‘Big City Plan’, Birmingham City Council’s award winning, twenty year development masterplan, presents a ‘once in a generation’ opportunity …
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 …
Employment strategies aren’t working
As part of the city council’s scrutiny process, whereby decisions made by the executive and outside bodies are reviewed by backbench …
