IT HAS been a while since we have heard much about it, but it is now the best part of a year since Chairman Blackburn launched his Fairness Commission quango on the 14th May 2012. This Commission was designed by the Sun of Socialism (with advice from leftist university lecturers) to arbitrate between the council [...continue]
HAROLD BLASTS another open letter at Labour leader Simon Blackburn.
A HOT local issue in Blackpool at the moment is that of the conversion of schools to academies: a process that is hotly opposed by Blackpool’s Labour council, teaching unions, and sympathising parents.
BLACKPOOL COUNCIL’S flagship Fairness Commission now has it’s own website and modus operandi published for all to see. Some cite it as little other than a quasi-official think tank for the council leader’ cronies, and from observation of the pages adorning its Wordpress.com blog site, one can conclude that this hypothesis isn’t too far off the mark.
HIGH STREETS are in a ‘dire state’ according to the retail consultant Mary Portas, and she has prepared a 55-page document with her own solutions. So where do we start?