Rochford and Southend East Conservative MP James Duddridge has challenged the Secretary of State for the Department for Communities and Local Government. Duddridge requested information on the government’s target timescale for the process of ‘greening’ British homes. He wrote to Secretary Hazel Blears asking “how long it will take for 90 per cent of homes to reach [...]
Southend West MP challenges Shadow Defence Secretary on Parliamentary website
David Amess, the Conservative MP for Southend West, today challenged Shadow Defence Secretary Nick Harvey on the publishing of parliamentary documents. Mr Amess wrote to enquire into the regularity of the daily publishing of parliamentary news on the official Parliament website, www.parliament.uk. He asked the Liberal Democrat MP for North Devon, who was representing the [...]
Welcome to CouncilBust
Hey there citizens. This site for anyone who is looking for informed, balanced and up-to-date reporting on Southend Council. There are currently two types of reporting in Southend on its council. First, there’s the rumour, scandal and often flagrant exaggeration published by various local news services. We all know that bad news sells papers. That’s why this reporting is [...]
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Comment: It’s not all smoke and mirrors, y’know
One of the most common complaints against local authorities is that they make decisions behind closed doors, without including the public enough, keeping them like the the proverbial mushrooms in order to impose procedures nobody agrees with. The latest example of this is the row over the expansion of Southend Airport. The public do not [...]
April 27, 2009
Categories: Comment & Opinion . . Author: ottermojo . Comments: Leave a Comment