Liverpool Daily Post - Dale Street Associates, formerly Dale Street Blues

Coalition seats targeted over unfair pay

2012-05-25T12:58:05Z

Union members will be meeting Coalition MPs over the next few weeks to urge them to say 'No' to postcode pay. Delegations of union members will be lobbying both Tory and Lib Dem MPs over the Government's plans to introduce...

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Third failed Liverpool mayor candidate Paul Rimmer arrested for protest over Rainbow flag

2012-05-25T07:51:10Z

A third candidate who stood in Liverpool's mayor election has been arrested. Paul Rimmer, who was 9th (of 12) in the mayor election standing for the English Democrats, was arrested at the weekend after an argument in a police station...

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Merseytravel row spills over at Sefton council cabinet meeting

2012-05-24T14:59:53Z

Sefton Lib Dems accused the ruling Labour party of trying to silence the Merseytravel row at a heated Cabinet meeting. The newly-appointed Lib Dem leader Cllr Iain Brodie Browne interrupted the meeting yesterday as the seven-strong all Labour Cabinet were...

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Tom Morrison becomes deputy Liberal Democrat leader in Liverpool

2012-05-24T10:55:04Z

Young gun Tom Morrison has become the deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats in Liverpool. Cllr Morrison, 30, will be Robin to leader Richard Kemp's Batman. The pair are both councillors in the Church ward - the only safe Lib...

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Crisis deepens at Merseytravel and chairman Mark Dowd fights for survival

2012-05-24T07:52:11Z

Pressure has intensified on Merseytravel today in the scandal over possible broken contract law over the spending of millions of pounds with consultants. Lord Storey and Conservative Wirral West MP Esther McVey have demanded an inquiry, with Ms McVey asking...

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... Someone's creeping round the corner

2012-05-24T07:00:00Z

IT'S BEEN a while since he's graced these pages, but David 'Mack The Knife' McElhinney is back in town. Mr Brocklebank was avidly reading the report in which the Independent Panel on Members' Allowances recommended Mayor Joe Anderson should receive...

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Merseytravel chairman Mark Dowd breaks silence over possible broken contract laws

2012-05-23T14:54:34Z

Merseytravel's Labour chairman Mark Dowd has finally broken his silence over revelations about possible broken contract laws at the authority. A fortnight ago we reported how Merseytravel may have broken the law in the way it spent millions of pounds...

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First council meeting with Joe Anderson as Liverpool mayor

2012-05-23T14:40:50Z

Tonight will be the first council meeting at Liverpool council with its new mayor Joe Anderson. Casual observers will notice very little difference tonight as Mayor Anderson will sit where he sat as council leader. The most noticeable thing will...

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ASBOs may have died a death, but justice in the community must be preserved

2012-05-23T10:08:00Z

News this week the government has decided to ditch Anti-Social Behaviour Orders will be met with cheers by those who hated them being introduced under New Labour way back in 1999. They were derided, usually by advocates of the birch...

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Liverpool Labour unites in praise of Conservatives after cruise liner victory

2012-05-23T08:48:33Z

It is not often that a Conservative-led goverment gets praise from Labour Liverpool. But the relaxation of the rules allowing cruise liners to start and finish from the Pier Head for turnaround cruises has prompted and outpouring of goodwill towards...

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Does Liverpool still need 90 councillors?

2012-05-22T08:02:30Z

Since May 8th, Liverpool has had an executive Mayor. This has significant governance related consequences, not least for the 90 members of the city council. The Mayor's advisory cabinet has to be chosen from the council members up to a...

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Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson sticks with his cabinet

2012-05-21T22:02:01Z

Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson has decided to leave his cabinet intact. Tonight the group had its annual general meeting, there are now 72 Labour councillors. "It looked more like a full council meeting," one attendee remarked to me....

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US Election 2012: Don't forget Virginia

2012-05-20T20:49:57Z

If a week is a long time in politics then nearly eight months (the gap since my last post on Dale Street Associates) is a lifetime. The Wilson minority Government of 1974 lasted for about the same amount of time....

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It's all in the (Prime Minister's) question(s)

2012-05-20T16:11:00Z

I may be wrong here, but Prime Minster's Questions is intended for members of the House to ask questions of the PM. What he's been up to, has he invaded any countries and not told us, that sort of...

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John Barnes on racism in football and society

2012-05-19T13:22:42Z

Anyone who has followed the race rows in the Premier League football this season, most notably of course the John Terry and Anton Ferndinand (which rumbled on this week) affair and the Luis Suarez and Patrice Evra controversy, will be...

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