Once January got under way so did the Parish Council meeting cycle, so it’s been a busy fortnight, since I last wrote anything – 5 Parish Council meetings attended and three missed. One because of a prior engagement, one because you can’t be in two PC meetings at once, and one because of the danger […]
So another year is nearly over… Since I last wrote there’s been one final Parish Council meeting to attend. Above Derwent PC with two controversial planning applications – one for affordable housing and one (a second attempt) for Ullock Moss car park. Affordable housing itself is not controversial – I think everyone recognises that many […]
The Government is proposing more deregulation of the banking industry. Last time round it led to aggressive growth, many organisations getting out of their depth and the financial crash of 2008. If you’re a banker, you might be celebrating, no worries about fuelling inflation if you get an unlimited bonus. If you have non-dom status […]
So it’s nearly the end of the year, nearly 8 months since I was elected. It has flown by, but what have I done? My first success for a member of the public was to organise a shade to be fitted to a streetlight that was flooding the upstairs of a property with light. The […]
Whitehaven Coalmine Protest Members and Supporters of Allerdale and Copeland Green Party are urged to join this AntiCoal Protest. Come dressed in green carrying a protest placard or bring a banner. All will be made welcome. Google map pindrop: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.5231439,-3.5906557,16z 11:00 am Saturday 10th December Marchon Site Entrance High Road Whitehaven CA28 9QJ Climate […]
Our next Prime Minister is chosen by 357 Conservative MPs, our last one was chosen by 172,000 members of the Conservative Party. It’s really high time the public had a say. If this government were a school or a hospital it would be in special measures by now, and would not have been allowed to […]
Your article in “First look at Nuclear Waste Facility Benefits” reads like a press release from Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) itself. It is hardly surprising that NWS is promoting the economic advantages of a Geological Disposal Facility given the fact that it is the government body charged with developing such a facility. The three Community […]
The new Cumberland Authority has put out its Council Plan for consultation. There is an easy online form to fill in if you have comments (see www.cumberland.gov.uk). It seems to us that there is an overarching policy missing from its vision and its focus, and that is to deliver a low carbon Cumberland by 2030 […]
The government has promised a decision on the Woodhouse colliery on or before 7th July so by the time you read this we may be celebrating its defeat or working out our next steps. Meanwhile just last week the Committee on Climate Change issued its latest report that said while UK targets are fine our […]
Last Thursday the voters of Bothel and Wharrels went to the polls and chose a representative for the new (shadow) Unitary Authority of Cumberland. In a historic move they chose me, their Green Party candidate. Bothel and Wharrels has traditionally been a safe Conservative seat and the result shows two things. The first is that […]
