Monthly Archive: June 2010

Jun 25

Bobby Brick Starts Work at City Council

  Local resident Bobby Brick (right) has come to the rescue on Stoke-on-Trent City Council. Bobby has heard that some Cabinet Members on the Council are having some difficulty getting time off work to fulfil their duties, and Bobby has decided to offer his services. Bobby says, “I’m supposed to be part of some regeneration …

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Jun 25

How Do You Know When a Politician Is Lying?

I pose this question as a rather confused councillor and resident of Stoke-on-Trent. At yesterday’s Full Council meeting, I asked the Leader of the Council a question, following concerns raised with me by the media, that their freedom to report, was being strangled. I asked: “Has a Protocol been put in place that requires the …

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Jun 14

Labour Attacking Democracy Again

The newly appointed Cabinet have already decided to extend (not) public scrutiny on there decision making. by cutting the number of meetings of the Cabinet by a quarter, and will be held in the evenings at 6pm so that this part time crew don’t have to have any time off work. No matter what you …

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Jun 14

Falling Standards in Public Life

  Took this picture of an unnamed Stoke-on-Trent Labour councillor leaving a meeting they had just had of the Transformation and Resources Committee. The same councillor then turned up in the very same shorts to the full council meeting last week three days later. A number of members of the public have already commented to …

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Jun 06

Open Letter to Chief Executive

To: Chief Executive, Stoke-on-Trent City Council, Dear Mr Laarschott, I am writing to you with regards to the recent decision to murder the Canadian Wild Geese, residing at Queens Park (Longton Park) in my ward last week. I want to share and express my outrage at this act. I have been inundated with local residents …

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