Save our Post office St James Ward

We are again the front runners in the campaine to save the local small post offices, the photo was taken on the day of the annoncement listing the closers, we will be out with our Petitions on Satuday, and every day we will be pushing for this silly idea to be overturned

The Post Office's consultation opened on the 19th February 2008 and will close on the 2nd April 2008, just six weeks. We believe that it should be extended to at least 12 weeks. Cabinet Office guidance state those 12 weeks minimum is good practice for public consultations.

Mayor’s aide avoids scrutiny

BORIS JOHNSON: JASPER SUSPENSION A COMPLETE COVER UP

Mayor’s aide avoids scrutiny

Commenting today on the news that the Mayor’s chief advisor, Lee Jasper, has been suspended from City Hall, Conservative Candidate for Mayor, Boris Johnson said:

“This is an outrageous attempt to avoid scrutiny. It was only 12 hours ago that the Mayor informed us that he had full confidence in Mr Jasper. What has changed his mind?

“Mr Jasper has been suspended – presumably on full pay – until after the election, in the hope that the full facts will not come out.

“It is clear that the Mayor’s handling of City Hall is descending into sleaze, chaos, and now cover-up.

“Millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money has been wasted or trousered by cronies of the Mayor.

“And we now have the police called in to investigate the Mayor’s chief police adviser.

“It is time to clean up City Hall, and time London had a change from this tired, stale, incompetent and increasingly decadent regime.

“How can the Mayor possibly focus on crime, housing and transport when he is mired in maladministration?”

THATS HOW YOU DO IT.

It can be done: South Norfolk Council freezes council tax

South Norfolk Council joins Westminster and East Hampshire as the three local authorities in the country that are freezing council tax. Hammersmith & Fulham, as we reported at the end of last year, are in a league of their own with a second successive 3% reduction in their levy.

South Norfolk switched from LibDem to Tory control at last year's elections with twenty council seats won by the Conservatives. During 12 years in charge the LibDems had increased council tax by 285%.

Council Leader John Fuller issued the following statement:

"We approach running the Council by applying Conservative values of thrift & enterprise whilst making sure that the state is there to help those who cannot help themselves. We are a Council that has now got a grip on its projects and is putting resources into its priority areas, whilst freezing council tax. But that hasn’t meant cuts. Quite the reverse. We’ve improved services by spending more on recycling, tackling anti-social behaviour whilst helping the old and infirm remain in their homes with extra resources for aids-and-adaptation & expanding the handy-man service amongst many other improvements. We are not a business, but being more business-like has meant that we have been able to get a firmer grip on the public finances to providing better value for money for residents whilst delivering much more. And that’s what Local Government should be all about."