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Green with Ennui

BY ROGER WATSON Plans to create a unitary mayoral authority covering the present East Riding of Yorkshire Council area including Hull, which presently has its own city council, were published on the 23rd of November 2023. The details are contained in the Hull and East Yorkshire Devolution Deal. As I explained recently in the Daily Sceptic, a major plank of the devolution proposals is achieving … Continue reading Green with Ennui

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Council Investigation Unit Needed

BY PAUL NEWALL Back in the days when I was eyeing a political career, I was sent on a couple of Labour Party day schools for aspiring local government candidates by my local Labour constituency association. One of the tutors was an incorruptible lifelong public servant who emphasised the importance of volunteerism, he’d been a town clerk while holding down a full-time job for decades. … Continue reading Council Investigation Unit Needed

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