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Prom consultation: the survey

Philtheone — Tue, 21 May 2013 14:46:44 +0000

IF YOU want to have your say on the Promenade options offered to us by Simon Blackburn, please visit the following link and complete the survey. https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/blackpoolpromenade

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Blackpool council set to pay bonuses to senior executives

Philtheone — Tue, 21 May 2013 10:19:50 +0000

BLACKPOOL COUNCIL fat cats are this evening thrashing out a new pay scheme that will see its top team paid bonuses that they claim will be linked to performance. A report prepared (by external consultants Hay Group) for tonight’s meeting states that; “Individuals [will] receive financial rewards in the form of increases to basic pay [...continue]

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Dave misses UKIP point

Philtheone — Thu, 02 May 2013 08:37:16 +0000

SOME TOP Tory MPs have been in the papers over the last few weeks trying to label UKIP candidates as loonies, bigots, and in today’s Telegraph they are called ‘fruitcakes’. Call me Dave has reiterated that we will get an EU referendum by some date in the far distant future (when he more than likely [...continue]

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What happened to the Fairness Commission?

Philtheone — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:47:30 +0000

IT HAS been a while since we have heard much about it, but it is now the best part of a year since Chairman Blackburn launched his Fairness Commission quango on the 14th May 2012. This Commission was designed by the Sun of Socialism (with advice from leftist university lecturers) to arbitrate between the council [...continue]

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Kids will ‘starve’ without free breakfast

Philtheone — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:32:01 +0000

OUR DEAR Leader has certainly got his sympathisers wrapped round his little finger, hasn’t he? Dare question Saint Simon Blackburn’s £2million free breakfast smörgåsbord, and you want children to ‘starve’. So say many SS-Blackburn sympathisers on the Geazett. If you take away the free breakfasts, children will die. And it will be your fault. It [...continue]

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Funding the Promenade with a £92m debt mountain

Philtheone — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 07:30:59 +0000

BLACKPOOL CONSERVATIVE leader Tony Williams has revealed the debt mountain that Blackpool Council is sat on, and has questioned where the funding for the Promenade will come from.

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Blackpool Council’s website given embarrassing 1-star rating

Philtheone — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 10:14:22 +0000

IN A review of local council websites by the Society of Information Technology Management - the professional association for public and third sector IT professionals - Blackpool Council's website was left at the bottom of the league table with an embarrassing 1-star out of 4.

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Peter Evans ousted as Deputy Leader of opposition

Philtheone — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:47:13 +0000

IN THE annual leadership vote this week, Councillor Peter Evans lost his position as deputy leader of the Blackpool Conservatives and was replaced by Councillor Don Clapham. This has been a rapid political downfall for Councillor Evans, who was elected as party leader following Councillor Callow’s humiliating election trouncing by Labour in 2011, and then [...continue]

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Labour set to revert Promenade to four lanes

Philtheone — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:23:34 +0000

THIS INFORMATION was passed to me weeks ago by a trusted source, and now Pravda has it splashed on the front page. But yes, the council has two plans afoot for the Promenade and one of them is to revert it to four lanes (except for the part by the Metropole where the tram tracks [...continue]

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Media incest

Philtheone — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:19:16 +0000

HYPOTHETICAL MUSINGS about the relationship between the press and local councils.

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