In a chirpy interview with Leckhampton online, Martin Horwood has rated the coalition at 8.5 out of 10. To be clear, that’s a ringing endorsement of the following: Colossal cuts to council spending (that’s your libraries, youth centres, rubbish collection, paving, street-lighting, social care and housing etc.), trading standards, education, benefits, environmental spending, justice (police), etc. […]
Arrogance often masks ignorance, and most politicians are very ignorant on the subject of Economics. A display of arrogance by John Webster, Cheltenham Borough Council`s Cabinet Member for Finance, was revealed in the previous post entitled “The unravelling of the Lib Dems – Part II”. Here`s the latest email to Councillor Webster from a different […]
Most will be aware that Lib Dem controlled Cheltenham Borough council has sung to the government’s tune and signed off a cuts package totalling 3 million pounds over the next two years. The council’s Cabinet Member for Finance, John Webster, revealed that there was much more to come: “I am much more confident that we […]
In the run up to the General Election, the Liberal Democrats styled themselves as the relative left-of-centre option for the electorate. Though this was always a bit of a fiction, few foresaw their immediate copulation with the Tories in a brazen trading of principles for power. That the Liberal Democrats are now facilitating the biggest […]
The geniuses at Gloucester City Council have better things to spend Council Tax Payers` money on than pesky public services. Instead, they`ve recently spent some money on advertising the slightly cheaper parking in Gloucester to people in er,…. Cheltenham! As this photo (date 4/3/11) of an advert seen in the car park of Cheltenham Sainsbury`s […]
Martin Horwood is known for his love of photo-opportunities, one such photo which appeared in the most recent LibDem “Focus” newsletter incensed Cheltenham resident Rob Bishop, who was moved to produce a critical but comical flyer which he delivered to residents in his neighbourhood of St. Marks. As a service to those Cheltenham residents who […]
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Cheltenham & Gloucester Against Cuts 