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Friday, 30 July, 2010 - 15:34
The summer holidays may only just have begin, but Greenwich Conservatives have already been out and about for some time talking to residents this summer. Greenwich Council's "Great Get-Together" events were held in three locations around the Borough during June and July, and Conservative Councillors were well represented at each.
Each event featured a "Talk Cafe" marquee where residents could meet their councillors, and post suggestions on display boards. We spoke to many local...
Wednesday, 28 July, 2010 - 11:23
Last night was a meeting of the Audit and Risk Management panel which looked at a range of accounts, annual governance letter and internal audit reports, which while important are generally quite opaque.
The more interesting part of the meeting for me was the report on the anti fraud team, which is something Greenwich does quite well. The bare figures are interesting in that there were 717 referrals for Housing Benefit or Council Tax Benefit Fraud in 2009/10 the majority of which (...
Sunday, 25 July, 2010 - 20:55
Labour change manifesto after the elections.
Conservatives revealed today that Greenwich Labour rewrote their commitments to the electorate after the election in May.
In a document sent to full Council in June labelled ‘Summary of the Majority Party Manifesto’ the Labour Party claims to have been committed to ‘aiming to save £25m over the four year term’, gives no time for completing the third Council services centre in Greenwich except ‘later on’ and aims to conduct a ‘review of housing...
Friday, 23 July, 2010 - 09:28
There are few members of the public who attend full Council unless there are specific issues which affect a particular group like provision of a third pool in the Eltham Centre or the conditions on the Ferrier Estate. Conservatives have requested the Council looks at webcasting the meetings, but Labour argue this is expensive and there simply isn’t the interest (which, if based on public attendance seems quite reasonable).
So as few people attend, I thought it...
Thursday, 22 July, 2010 - 18:01
On Tuesday 20th July, local Conservative representatives Ryan Acty (Greenwich West) and Malcolm Reid (Peninsula) attended the Transition Greenwich forum to discuss how best to balance the various transport, business, residential and visitor requirements of Greenwich Town Centre in terms of traffic management. The meeting was held in St Alfege’s Church Hall and was well attended by local residents, community groups and businesses.
The main agenda item was to discuss Greenwich Council’s...
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The one thing all three major political parties agreed on at the last election was that there would be significant cuts to public spending. The Labour Party estimated around £40 Billion of cuts but refused to say what they would be. The Liberal Democrats said there would be suts but not immediately and they also seemed unable to say where the axe would fall. The... |
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