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Control Panel
Discworld
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 Posted - 14/05/2007 : 20:48:42
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| The new Council is now taking shape, and could prove interesting as it is announced which Councillors are in charge of what - perhaps different from what is expected. |
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
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Posted - 14/05/2007 : 20:53:47
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| I want to know if we are going to see any changes in the exec. |
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin |
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birdy
Alagaësía
United Kingdom
81 Posts |
Posted - 14/05/2007 : 22:54:23
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| Anubus that was a great piece,well worth tuning into this forum for. |
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flaming pie
Alagaësía
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Posted - 14/05/2007 : 23:17:21
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Originally posted by Miriam Binder
I want to know if we are going to see any changes in the exec.
Empoyment rights! |
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
5815 Posts |
Posted - 14/05/2007 : 23:21:44
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| I was more thinking along the lines of 'unemployment' but ... hey hop |
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin |
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
6771 Posts |
Posted - 15/05/2007 : 14:56:34
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Blair cost him
his Job.
You don't say.
Sign Of The Times. |
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
1292 Posts |
Posted - 15/05/2007 : 22:13:21
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No, Simon Burgess cost Simon Burgess his job.
He could have taken an anti-Blair tack rather than do as bidden.
It also cannot have gone down very well in Queen's Park that he had moved over this Portslade way. |
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flaming pie
Alagaësía
90 Posts |
Posted - 15/05/2007 : 23:07:34
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| Should have boosted his vote, moving to Portslade. |
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Captain Hawkeye
Barsoom
United Kingdom
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Joe Bloggs
Alagaësía
72 Posts |
Posted - 16/05/2007 : 14:24:38
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| Ah, bless him. How will he survive. No computer, mobile phone or allowance. He's hit rock bottom. He'll have to actually earn a living like the rest of us. |
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Pogmothoin
Alagaësía
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Posted - 16/05/2007 : 22:25:12
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"Blair cost him his Job."
What a cretin - what cost him his job was the lies promulgated on the Councils website and the so called chief executive. Hopefull the new folk will do better.
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Control Panel
Discworld
1213 Posts |
Posted - 17/05/2007 : 08:44:14
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| Word is that there could be quite a shake-up in the way the Council is run. More transparency. Next week's council meeting might spring the surprises. |
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
5815 Posts |
Posted - 17/05/2007 : 09:20:56
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| More transparency? Sheesh almighty can we take anymore transparency I wonder. What I would love to see is an executive that is held accountable to the people that employ them. I would like a council chamber that is going to stop jumping whenever the exec says jump and start demanding that the exec does as it is told ... like any good employee should ... I want to see a council chamber that is full of eager beaver councillors who are not going to take the first report the exec produces as gospel and will apply common sense to the flights of cosmopolitan fancy. |
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin |
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nightbird
Calaspia
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Posted - 17/05/2007 : 09:45:48
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Originally posted by Control Panel
Word is that there could be quite a shake-up in the way the Council is run. More transparency. Next week's council meeting might spring the surprises.
More mirrors you mean.... |
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nightbird
Calaspia
603 Posts |
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Control Panel
Discworld
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Control Panel
Discworld
1213 Posts |
Posted - 26/05/2007 : 10:02:58
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It is not only Brighton and Hove, Around the world there is no overall control.
A hung Parliament is increasingly likely. |
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
5815 Posts |
Posted - 26/05/2007 : 10:52:11
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Originally posted by Control Panel
The Argus has now reported on the proposed change in set-up of the Council. It is good sense to have a finance committee.
http://www.theargus.co.uk/display.var.1406052.0.new_council_body_to_scrutinise_major_projects.php
More money down the drain and increased bureaucracy ... Great start Oxley. |
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin |
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Control Panel
Discworld
1213 Posts |
Posted - 27/05/2007 : 16:30:05
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| Latest information is that Sue john was "elected" to Seeda for four years, and so she could still be on it despite recently resuming "civilian" status. |
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Anubis
Barsoom
279 Posts |
Posted - 27/05/2007 : 19:13:41
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| I don't follow local politics, and I realize the "mayor" is just a figurehead, but has the new 'figurehead' a history in Brighton & Hove (apart from as the wife of G Theobald)? I remember in the 1960s she was one of the glamorous(?) "Argus Girls"; there were a number of them, dressed in red jackets and short skirts, usually appeared as a group, on the streets and involved in roadside "events" to publicize the "Evening Argus". Like all young men (as I was in those days!), I always found time to 'look at' the Argus girls whenever they appeared and remember, at the time, being amazed how increasingly it was Carol Ann Bull (I think that was then her name) that was given most of the publicity and extra photo opportunities; it surprised me as I had thought the other girls were the more attractive. (I appreciate this sort of "sex talk" is nowadays perceived as demeaning to women and therefore 'socially unacceptable'!) I have no recollections of "Miss Brighton" contests, referred to in the weekend Argus. |
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
1292 Posts |
Posted - 27/05/2007 : 20:04:39
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| Perhaps the Argus needs to replace that old fellow it has outside Smith's at Brighton station in the mornings with - well, a bevy of.... I leave the rest to your imaginations to create a vision, of high-steppin', short-skirted... circulation-boostin'... stops typin', falls off chair. |
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Control Panel
Discworld
1213 Posts |
Posted - 20/07/2007 : 21:52:10
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| May 2007? Three months is an even longer time in politics. All that lot can seem a distant memory. Caravans move on (unless they are travellers of course). |
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May local elections
Posted - 16/05/2007 : 12:54:31