Goes to Battle Labour candidate Chris Maskell alongside serial peddler of untruths Cllr Page, who will no doubt be disappointed to be only the runner-up (but there is a clear outright winner. Will it be the embittered old liar himself? All will be revealed…) Maskell posts at http://cllrchrismaskell.com/2011/04/28/another-torylib-dem-stealth-tax/ (with a very nice picture of Cardigan Road, [...]
The Yes campaign in the AV referendum has been far too civilised for its own good. In a referendum campaign that is founded on relatively low levels of awareness of the issue people will be voting on, there is a vacuum, as I have been finding out on the doorstep; and as ever where there [...]
The tragic farce of Reading Borough Council’s destruction of integrated transport around Reading Station has continued today – with a protest by taxi drivers. There have never been remotely enough taxi ranks or facilities for private hire vehicles in Reading – a problem acknowledged by the use of the old bus station. So in its [...]
Today, 18 April 2011, marks the municipally-induced demise of integrated transport in Reading with the closure of Station Hill and atomisation of the transport hub around Reading Station. It is by some distance the worst decision taken in recent years by Reading Borough Council. It will certainly be regretted for far longer than any of [...]
This evening, at my last (for now) Council meeting and in yet another attempt by the Labour Party to get political advantage from the RCRE funding row, it was asserted that Reading Borough Council had strategic responsibility for community cohesion. In that case, why did a search for “community cohesion” on the RBC website come [...]
