Salford Council Leader John Merry chases Cameron,Clegg & Osborne asking for the money back they have cut from the citizens of Salford. ConDems in action.
Monday 28 February 2011
ConDem Toffs
Salford Council Leader John Merry chases Cameron,Clegg & Osborne asking for the money back they have cut from the citizens of Salford. ConDems in action.
Saturday 26 February 2011
Simon Hoggart's week: It's like being nabbed by the Keystone Kops
Johnny Depp as Edward Scissorhands: not best equipped to make balloon animals. Photograph: 20th Century Fox/Allstar
I suspect that, like me, habitual Labour voters deep down fear that, while the Tories might be horrible, hard-faced exploiters of decent working people, they are reasonably competent at what they do. Labour has its heart in the right place, it believes in fairness and equality, but somehow it gets things wrong in the end. Look at the last government.
And now look at this one. Competent? It is a bit like watching the Keystone Kops effecting an arrest. This week's cack-handed rescue operation in Libya. The privatised forest debacle. The coming catastrophe of NHS reform. The complete failure to do anything about bank bonuses except whinge. Almost everything they touch comes to pieces in their hands. As I've probably said before, it's like watching Edward Scissorhands trying to make balloon animals.
Simon Hoggart guardian.co.uk,
Friday 18 February 2011
Thursday 17 February 2011
Tuesday 15 February 2011
Monday 14 February 2011
Police Cuts - too far, too fast
The Tory-led Government is taking a huge gamble with our economy and is now taking an even bigger gamble with our safety by cutting the police budget by more than 20 per cent over the next four years.
Figures released in January show that recorded fell by seven per cent nationally in the year ending September 2010. Yet the Tory-led Government is risking this progress by cutting police funding.
Accountants KPMG have estimated that these cuts could mean around 18,000 officers could be lost while the Police Federation has suggested that around 20,000 police officers would be lost by the end of the Spending Review. A similar number of police staff – who help to free up police officers from administrative tasks to be on the frontline and involved in crime prevention and investigations – could also be lost.
In our area,GM Police face a reduction to their budget which could result in fewer police officers on the street to deal with crime and anti-social behaviour. It could also have a serious impact on other vital services such as the specialist officers used to deal with domestic violence and prevent child abuse.
I’m angry at the recklessness of their decisions and I don’t think they understand the impact that such a drastic reduction of police officers in Salford could have.
Furthermore, the Conservative-led Government also plans to waste £100 million on a new tier of politicians through imposing directly elected police commissioners. People will be rightly angry to hear that this money equates to 600 full-time police officers – at a time of savage cuts to police budgets, this money could be better spent.
The Tory policy of cuts to police funding is reckless and potentially damaging to our community – please join me in taking action to oppose their plan by signing our petition calling on Cameron and Clegg NOT to cut police numbers at campaignengineroom.org.uk/police.
Friday 11 February 2011
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