Last night, I blogged about the stalemate following yesterday’s Budget Council in Brighton and Hove. The Brighton and Hove Green Party has now issued the following statement: Tonight’s Brighton & Hove City Council budget meeting was adjourned at 10:30pm after the budget without a referendum failed to pass. Green councillors have issued the following statement: […]
Monthly Archives: February 2014
In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell invented the concept of duckspeak. It was a description for the act of speaking without thinking, like the quacking of a duck; when used in support of the party line it was seen as a good thing, a repetition of orthodoxy untainted by reference to the real world. Listening to […]
The Advertising Standards Authority has published its verdict on the advertisements published by the Unchain the Motorist pressure group in the Brighton Argus during last year’s consultation on 20mph limits in Brighton and Hove. It’s devastating. All 11 issues raised in complaints about the advertisement have been upheld by the ASA. To understand just how […]
Spring. The buds are appearing on the bushes and shrubs, the first daffodils are out in Brighton’s splendid parks and the annual coup against Jason Kitcat’s convenorship of the Green Group on the city Council is apparently under way. To be fair, the exclusive report in the Brighton magazine The Latest – soon to launch […]
The fate of the Green administration’s proposed 4.75% Council Tax rise will be settled in the next few days, with the crucial Policy and Resources Committee meeting on 13 February and the full Budget Council on 27th. The debate has continued: I was at the debate organised by the Brighton and Hove Independent last night […]
The debate about Brighton and Hove Council’s proposed 4.75% Council Tax rumbles on, with the crucial Policy and Resources Committee Budget meeting on 13 February and the Full Council Budget vote two weeks after that. The Green Party continues to argue that this is an exercise in local democracy. I don’t want to rehears the […]
