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And on the tourist map
And on the tourist map
STUBENRAUCHSTRASSE 1985
STUBENRAUCHSTRASSE 1985
From the tourist map
From the tourist map
The Berlin suburbs 1985. We
The Berlin suburbs 1985. We’re looking along a road claimed by the East
There seems to be an
There seems to be an obsession about “finding out who all these long-term contracts are let to” …and then what? (as you say).
Aren’t contracts a good thing, like as opposed to all those working from home, union card carrying, EDI advocating, fat-salaried, gold-plated pension council employees?
I thought Badenoch’s position was it was both entirely meaningless AND a massive sell-out of Britain’s interests.Schrödinger’s Brexit betrayal.
You’re absolutely right Mark,
You’re absolutely right Mark, it was just the headline that tickled me. Those £10ks could be better spent on getting a dream bike from Ribble, though.
OK here’s another contender from Facebook for peak 2025:
Affirmations Sound Bath
Sommer Theobald • 9h • 0
Hello all. Unfortunately I will no longer be running a sound bath at the Victoria rooms as they hired upstairs to clubbacise…
(Don’t half of all Dad’s Army plots revolve around Mainwaring and Hodges arguing about who’s booked the Church Hall; the other half Jones rafting a river?)
My Nan was never quite the
My Nan was never quite the same after decimalisation in 1971, but it does sound like she’s entered local politics: “If you look after your pennies, the pounds will follow.” (Cllr Graves, Reform leader at DCC.)
Playground politics, Pride flags and prayer – Reform’s first Derbyshire County Council meeting
Reform’s first meeting with the keys to County Hall in hand was one for the books and a sign of things to come
Finally, I guess I’m going to have to get more used to agreeing with Conservatives: Following the meeting, Conservative councillor Nigel Gourlay said: “They have had three weeks and they are not beyond an election leaflet yet.”
Reform’s first Cornwall
Reform’s first Cornwall Council meeting in opposition is short but eventful
The biggest party’s new councillors refused to vote on pretty much everything as a new leader, chair and vice-chair were elected
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/reforms-first-cornwall-council-meeting-10199349
Rabbits in the headlights springs to mind here. EDI and coming face to face with a world that isn’t as one-dimensional as you’ve convinced yourself it is can be a flash-point for some people. So interesting to see that Reform are already running scared of going on a training course.
Then there’s the whinge below, in short crying to Teacher (not the LGA’s role to intervene) because something, something it’s not fair (also: see above). Mate, despite sitting on your hands for the pretty much all the Council meeting, you are entitled to 68 committtee seats and 68 you have been allocated. Fucking grow a pair and make your nominations.
https://democracy.cornwall.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=584&MId=13876&Ver=4 – items 11 and 14 refer
“Reform group leader, Cllr Rob Parsonage, revealed after the meeting that they have approached the Local Government Association (LGA) to arbitrate after the largest party on the council claimed it had been denied “any meaningful representation on council committees, including our reasonable request for a single chair position on a scrutiny committee. This blatant exclusion ensures Reform UK has no ability to influence decisions or deliver the change our voters demanded”.
Have we hit peak 2025 yet?
Have we hit peak 2025 yet?
Glastonbury glampers’ concern after yurt firm goes bust
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czelydedx44o
Car flips over onto its roof
Car flips over onto its roof outside Rushden primary school
I like the implication that
I like the implication that the Council’s finances are somehow a big secret that you have to get elected to unravel. You’re supposed to be good with money, so read the ****ing accounts:
2024/25 will in draft and will be published soon.
Reform UK pledge spending review as Staffordshire County Council leader in place
Ian Cooper has been officially named the new Staffordshire County Council leader
“Now the cabinet and myself can really press on with delivering our priorities for Staffordshire residents and businesses. This includes examining in detail how, where and how much we are spending across the council, focusing first on core service, such as the care of the elderly, children’s services and highways and promoting clean, safe and thriving communities.”
https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/reform-uk-pledge-spending-review-10206374
I’msorrywhat: “promoting clean, safe and thriving communities” – sounds a bit namby-pamby to me, who vetted this bloke??
PS blink and you’ll miss it – one of the Reform cohort has already resigned:
Reform council leader defends by-election cost
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0eqpz9ep7poPPS
Reform UK members in Cornwall defend living (45 and 36) miles from the areas they represent
‘Living outside my division means I don’t have any conflict of interest, so I can speak unencumbered,’ said Reform’s deputy leader in Cornwall
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/reform-uk-members-cornwall-defend-10203468
I guess if you’re in
I guess if you’re in opposition to the govt you either have to say the Europe deal is insignificant, as I think I heard Kemi Badenoch say, or that it represents STARMER’S MASSIVE BREXIT BETRAYAL or something like that (Daily Mail headline, which I’m surprised even plays now with their declining readership.)
I find myself closer to Kemi’s position, although I think for different reasons – it’s something like the basics of a deal that we should have left with in 2019, still falling well short of the “no downsides” Leave pitch that so many people, weirdly, believed.
Local Runner Grateful for
Local Runner Grateful for Little Wave From Motorist Who Nearly Hit Her
Dumbrunner
The same throughway cutting
The same throughway cutting off a road – the town centre is just over there, pedestrians: here, we’ve built you this nice overbridge – hope you’re fit and don’t get vertigo!
