| T O P I C R E V I E W |
| Captain Hawkeye |
Posted - 19/05/2007 : 19:07:25
We have had the election and now the new Council has to get down to business.
24 May 2007 Annual Council
Word Document : Council Report
Review of Political Balance and Appointment of Committees and Sub-Committees
http://tinyurl.com/23pwka
Agenda for the Meeting
http://tinyurl.com/2zhtm4
Life in the Town Hall |
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| Infinite Poppadum |
Posted - 15/11/2008 : 20:22:26
As Brighton's Council seeks bizarre parity with, among others, New York and Tokyo, we might wonder whether it has reached such "understandings" as described here.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/world/asia/16yakuza.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin |
| Control Panel |
Posted - 15/11/2008 : 18:40:17
quote:
Originally posted by Infinite Poppadum
I think that if this fellow had tried starstruck Brighton Council instead of Dover's, he would have got away with pretending to be the guy from Status Quo for much longer. Great, the bit about the pony tail! Shows an imagination sorely lacking in the councillors themselves. He should have stayed around and got elected next time.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1085674/How-Dover-conned-fake-Status-Quo-star-ponytail--YEAR.html
Status Quo's guitarist is all very well but Brighton Council would be taken in by somebody claiming to be Elvs back after all these years and wanting a hand in designing himself an apartment at the King Alfred... |
| Infinite Poppadum |
Posted - 15/11/2008 : 16:15:01
I think that if this fellow had tried starstruck Brighton Council instead of Dover's, he would have got away with pretending to be the guy from Status Quo for much longer. Great, the bit about the pony tail! Shows an imagination sorely lacking in the councillors themselves. He should have stayed around and got elected next time.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1085674/How-Dover-conned-fake-Status-Quo-star-ponytail--YEAR.html |
| Infinite Poppadum |
Posted - 11/11/2008 : 09:59:46
This article discusses the fact that Americans have elected a man who is not ashamed at referring to ideas and thought.
Could there be an Obama effect with the next Council election?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/opinion/09kristof.html?em |
| Infinite Poppadum |
Posted - 10/11/2008 : 15:53:43
Here is a piece about a councillor forced out even though it was said that there is noithing illegal abut being a strippergram and chatline girl.
Also points out that difficult to combine council work with earning a lving.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/10/equality-localgovernment |
| Control Panel |
Posted - 03/11/2008 : 08:25:25
quote:
Originally posted by Daveb
Latin is a dead langusge, why worry?
I know.
The so called intellectuals may be worried everyone else may recognise the crap they are talking about for the crap it really is.
Latin is a central part of English. Study of Latin is becoming more popular in government -run schools. What showing does it make in Brighton and Hove? |
| Miriam Binder |
Posted - 02/11/2008 : 20:07:41
Well, they are part of Britain's heritage and as such have been given special 'protected' status. The Welsh Language Act 1993 ensures that Welsh is given equal status as the majority language English; which is not, contrary to popular belief, Britain's official language - though some would have it that it is our greatest export |
| Daveb |
Posted - 02/11/2008 : 19:31:52
 The Welsh here reads: Please meet me in the office supplies room for a snog.
A BLUNDER by officials has led to a council erecting a road sign asking drivers to e-mail in any translation work instead of its intended message of banning lorries from a street.
The sign in English read: “No entry for heavy goods vehicles. Residential site only.”
But the Welsh version directly underneath translates as: “I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated.”
http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/2008/10/28/welsh-language-road-sign-dangerous-and-shameful-55578-22130152/ |
| Daveb |
Posted - 02/11/2008 : 19:25:43
Oh and Welsh but we still WASTE money on duplicating signs for people who can already read the English ones.
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| Miriam Binder |
Posted - 02/11/2008 : 19:22:47
So is Cornish ... but there is a concerted effort to revive it. |
| Daveb |
Posted - 02/11/2008 : 19:15:43
Latin is a dead langusge, why worry?
I know.
The so called intellectuals may be worried everyone else may recognise the crap they are talking about for the crap it really is. |
| Anubis |
Posted - 02/11/2008 : 14:04:18
OK -- so it's not Brighton & Hove Council referred to ---- but here's an example of the ignorant logic one expects to find coming from the morons who constitute the local authority bureaucracies:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1082427/Town-halls-ban-staff-using-Latin-words-case-confuse-immigrants.html?ITO=1490 |
| Infinite Poppadum |
Posted - 31/10/2008 : 12:37:26
Brighton Council has discovered that there are dormice in the vicinity - creatures which are only awake for a quarter of the day. |
| Miriam Binder |
Posted - 27/10/2008 : 18:01:21
I think there is a link to it somewhere on these forums. I'll see if I can find it. |
| flaming pie |
Posted - 27/10/2008 : 17:40:49
I seem to remember that DVD's election leaflet was a killer, written in very bad English. does anyone have a copy? |
| Infinite Poppadum |
Posted - 27/10/2008 : 10:51:22
The ex-guerilla did not get in.
He was standing for the Green Party. |
| Miriam Binder |
Posted - 26/10/2008 : 21:17:51
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| Daveb |
Posted - 26/10/2008 : 21:16:38
David Van Day ex pop star, ex burger Van owner, hence ex-griller!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Van_Day
Close and somewhat worse.
Dollar records are far worse crime than kidnap. |
| Infinite Poppadum |
Posted - 26/10/2008 : 20:23:45
An ex-guerilla who once kidnapped an American Ambassador is in the running to become Mayor of Rio de Janeiro.
Who, on Brighton and Hove Council, can claim such dynamic credentials? |
| Control Panel |
Posted - 10/10/2008 : 10:44:57
Will Councillor Cobb, responsible for environmental matters, be issuing a statement about the Council and dihydrogen monoxide?
It is probably also found in pasties.
http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html |
| Control Panel |
Posted - 05/10/2008 : 06:48:01
There are mutterings growing within the Conservatives that in May there should be a change of Leader. |
| Miriam Binder |
Posted - 01/10/2008 : 16:43:36
Three roads do not a town make ... I take your point about those areas but, in the main ... the not so central areas of Hove have deteriorated in keeping with the not so central areas of Brighton. |
| flaming pie |
Posted - 01/10/2008 : 16:07:16
George Street, Blatchington Road, Church Road - all improved in my opinion. George Street would benefit from being completely pedestrianised though.
Now, how about a campaign to keep cyclists off the promenade in Hove - one young scallywag nearly ran me down last week! |
| Miriam Binder |
Posted - 29/09/2008 : 14:22:41
Driving along in the pre-joining days and for some considerable time after the joining you could see where the boundaries were even without knowing the streets. Mainly because Hove was so much better kept then Brighton; less potholes, better street lighting, less clutter on the roads ... all that has evaporated now and all the roads are looking, and feeling as unkempt! |
| flaming pie |
Posted - 29/09/2008 : 14:16:32
I much prefer Hove and Brighton to remain firmly joined. Trimmingham the scribe, also known as the sage bush of sussex is in agreement. |
| Infinite Poppadum |
Posted - 25/09/2008 : 17:01:53
Here is a piece about Stonebridge School which is remarkably similar to the plans to demolish the Connaught Centre in Hove...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/sep/25/endangeredbuildings2008.stonebridge |
| Daveb |
Posted - 17/09/2008 : 20:11:07
In what way?? |
| Miriam Binder |
Posted - 17/09/2008 : 12:01:26
If Hove has any sense it will get out! This marriage between Hove and Brighton has only ever worked to the detriment of Hove! |
| Infinite Poppadum |
Posted - 17/09/2008 : 11:16:21
Councillor Ted Kemble is against separating Hove from Brighton - and he lives in Portslade!
He'll be out!
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/3679570.Could_Hove_really_divorce_Brighton_/ |
| Miriam Binder |
Posted - 15/09/2008 : 11:31:11
Oh good grief ... what is it this time that they failed to make provision for? |
