Tag Archives: localism

The Pickles Integration Speech – big on rhetoric, small on ideas

By Jill Rutter | Published: January 16, 2013

Jill Rutter writes on migration issues and through IPPR will be publishing a paper on integration in February 2013. A month after Ed Miliband’s speech on migrant integration and nearly 12 months after his Department published its integration strategy, Eric Pickles made his first speech on this issue in a speech hosted by Policy Exchange [...]

Posted in A Britain We All Call Home | Also tagged , , | 22 Responses

Who’ll be first across the bridge in the race to be Labour’s Bristol Mayor candidate?

By Amanda Ramsay | Published: May 31, 2012

As campaigning gets under way in the race to be Bristol’s first directly elected mayor, Left Foot Forward previews Labour’s prospective candidates.

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Elected mayors: To vote or not to vote?

By Guest | Published: April 26, 2012

The fast-approaching referendums on directly elected mayors in 10 major UK cities present an opportunity to invigorate local democracy and economic development.

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Responses to gang culture: The need for localised strategies

By Guest | Published: April 20, 2012

Youth crime remains endemic in deprived urban areas. Communities must develop inclusive, youth-led strategies to tackle the gangs, writes a Labour councillor.

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Pickles and co are barking up the road to nowhere

By Guest | Published: October 1, 2011

Sian Berry explains why transport plans focusing on roads are likely to take more money from local authorities’ purses, and calls for more sustainable plans.

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Pickles’s failed attempt to reduce complexity risks a planning free-for-all

By Alex Hern | Published: September 22, 2011

Under the guise of reducing complexity in the planning system, the government devolves crucial decisions to under-funded councils in a failed attempt at growth.

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Business rates reform: Clegg promises poorer areas will not lose out

By Guest | Published: June 29, 2011

Nick Clegg, speaking at the Local Government Association conference, promised poorer areas will not lose out from the government’s business rates reform.

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Pickles’s meddle and populism bill

By Guest | Published: December 15, 2010

Jessica Studdert, political adviser to the Labour group at the Local Govt Assoc, examines Eric Pickles’s meddling in the very localism he claims to champion.

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Eric Pickles’ cuts target Britain’s poorest areas

By Will Straw | Published: December 13, 2010

The Government claims that “We’re all in this together”. But even with Eric Pickles’ ‘transition grant’ into account, the poorest areas will do worse out of this settlement.

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Localism or a postcode lottery?

By Stephen Henderson | Published: October 14, 2010

The ‘bonfire of quangos’ may or may not lead to centralisation or deregulation depending on circumstance.

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