Look hard at the Conservative leaflets that have been pushed through your letterboxes. Do you see any mention of the purchase of the £51 million Shrewsbury shopping centres? £450 for every council tax payer? Of course not. The Conservatives pressured Shropshire Council into buying the retails units just before the market collapsed and that was […]
Category: Local Elections 2021
Shropshire Council must support communities through a community lottery
Shropshire’s resilience lies in its communities so why won’t Shropshire Council support them? I proposed a community lottery in 2017 on behalf of the Lib Dem group. Council members votes to investigate the concept. But the proposal was kicked into touch by Shropshire Council’s deputy leader, Steve Charmley. There is everything in favour of […]
Astonishing Blue on Blue attack as deselected Tory lashes out at council leadership
BBC Radio Shropshire is this morning reporting that a senior Conservative, who has been deselected and will stand as an independent, has taken a parting shot at her former colleagues. As the radio station reports, the email was sent to all 74 councillors not just the Conservative group. As such it was obviously meant to […]
Conservatives are promising fantasy money for highways – Floreat Salopia Ollam Foraminis?
The Conservatives have promised an extra £40 million for highways if they are re-elected. At a committee meeting early in the month, council officers confirmed that this money could not be found within the planned budget but will have to come from grants, extra government funding, cuts to other budgets and the council’s diminishing reserves. […]
Elections 2021: Ludlow Town Council nominations announced – I am disappointed by the lack of new faces
I confess I am disappointed. There are fifteen seats on Ludlow Town Council. But there are only two candidates for the 6 May election who don’t already sit on the council. One is me and I am elected unopposed to Gallows Bank Ward, the area I live in. That makes sense to me as I […]