Sentences with phrase «by local councillors»

Nevertheless, by the late 1930s and early 1940s John was regularly featured in international shows of Surrealist and Dada art and in 1938 his works were banned from an exhibition in Birmingham by local councillors as being «detrimental to public sensibility».

There is a view that activism is boosted by local councillors.

The changes will have no impact on the local authority that provides council services in your area, or on the boundaries of wards represented by your local councillors.

His seat is being contested for Labour by local councillor Lesley Hinds.

The original opportunity to establish a new free school within RBWM was identified by local councillor, Simon Dudley, who led the founder group and discussions with the DfE and EFA.

Not exact matches

Surrounded by city councillors and local Progressive Conservative MLAs, and awkwardly crammed into the narrowest section of the Churchill LRT concourse, Premier

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It was made in a blog by Mike Law, a former Newham councillor, who declared of the surprising # 40 million loan offered by his council to West Ham: «It was a bizarre partnership between a deprived local authority and a failing football club.»

In a statement issued by the State's Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Steve Ayorinde, the Government also reiterated the call for a peaceful and orderly conduct by the electorates on Saturday as the State holds elections that will usher in new Chairmen and Councillors in the 20 Local Government and 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) across the State.

Somewhat bizarrely, it's claimed by the bill's backers that, left unchallenged, the high court ruling could prevent local councillors from laying a wreath at a Remembrance Sunday event.

The real problem for Labour is the erosion over a number of years of its local government base, with by far the largest number of UK councillors being Tories.

In a Sunday Times article, Mr Phillips referred to a High Court case being taken by the National Secular Society and an atheist former councillor challenging the holding of prayers in local council meetings as «nonsense on stilts», and said human rights legislation was undermined by using it to settle «parochial disputes».

2.15 pm Local Government: «Cllr Hall was elected the new Leader last night by 31 votes to 24 after a number of Independent Labour councillors abstained or voted for her.

Five years ago, Welsh Labour did very well in the Welsh local elections, increasing the number of council seats they held by around 70 %; by the end of that night they had substantially more councillor in Wales than did the Conservatives, Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats put together.

I voted by post today and had three ballot papers: mayor, police and crime commissioner, local councillor — which is a lot of decisions to make about our future leaders in one go.

There will be further consideration of selection of councillors by the local government committee in consultation with the Scottish Association of Labour Ccouncillors by the local government committee in consultation with the Scottish Association of Labour CouncillorsCouncillors.

The chair of the Jewish Labour Movement, Jeremy Newmark, explained how a Jewish Labour councillor had been verbally abused by other members of his local party and told that «you are responsible for the slave trade» just days after Jackie Walker's Facebook comments.

He has always been fascinated by politics and debating and after reading physics at university (now there is a rarity) gained experience as a local councillor in Croydon, where he was born and lived, then at CCHQ in research and campaigning and working with the young George Osborne as well as Lynton Crosby and Michael Ashcroft.

But Eastleigh does NOT represent firm evidence that the party can fend off its national unpopularity by dint of a strong local party, dozens of entrenched councillors, a highly - effective postal vote operation and the influx of thousands of volunteers.

However, the decision to stagger the changes reflects a growing realisation by ministers that Labour could exploit the changes to attack Tory and Lib Dem councillors in local elections next year.

«Council tax bills set to rise by more than 100 % under Labour Main Harry Phibbs: In 2008 are surgeries still an effective use of local councillors?»

The Guardian found that 43 councillors work for communications consultancies specialising in planning, which are appointed by developers to communicate with local residents, pressure groups and councillors before planning hearings.

I still believe we will be hammered in the forthcoming local elections, which makes me sorry for the hard working diligent councillor being affected not by local issues but by a simmering hatred the press and Labour have been keenly espousing since the coalition deal, and a hatred for the Lib Dems for being the face of the cuts.

That view may not be shared by Tory councillors who lost their seat in places like South Cambridgeshire, Richmond and Wandsworth, but by and large it was hard graft on local issues by moderate, competent Conservatives that saw off Labour and in places even won us seats.

We have learnt that local activists are disappointed that a popular local councillor, Sharon Massey, has failed to make it on to a shortlist of twenty for the seat being vacated by Derek Conway.

With little or nothing in the way of local consultation or championing by councillors, it was easy for those opposed to housing to make their case volubly and persuasively.

If you want a say in how your local community should adapt to the changing economic circumstances caused by the global financial meltdown, make sure you write to your councillors today.

Just as our members providing vital local services know the real cost of cuts will be paid by their communities, Liberal Democrat councillors charged with implementing cuts are waking up to the dangers.

Local councillor Gillian Troughton won a tense selection battle and will try to defend the party's 2,500 majority in the Copeland seat being vacated by sitting MP Jamie Reed.

Graham Allen, the chairman of the city's local strategic partnership between police, councillors and the probation service, insisted a new study by independent think tank Reform was «lazy stereotyping» and would do little to help the fight against crime.

By the end of last year's European and local elections, the party had lost all their MEPs and all but two of their councillors.

The meeting held today was attended by 177 councillors, 177 ward chairmen, 16 Local Government party chairmen, 16 Local Council Chairmen, Chairmen and members of Boards and Parastatals, State Executive Council, Ekiti State House of Assembly members, serving and former members of the PDP State Working Committee, former Deputy Governor, among others.

I feel, as with MPs and local Councillors, MEPs should only go forward for re-selection by popular vote and all candidates should be selected on merit.

Such complicated arrangements incline me strongly to support adopting the practice of some countries, long backed by the Electoral Commission, the 2007 Councillors Commission and others, of a single four - yearly national or at least regional Local Elections Day for all councils — though not, as in Sweden, on the same day as parliamentary elections with different coloured ballot papers, and probably not in mid-November, like Denmark's.

The government will know that local authorities, even those controlled by Conservative councillors, can make serious trouble over this sort of funding gap.

In February 2018, Peter Walker, a former Labour councillor for Figges Marsh who was suspended by the party in October 2017, claimed that the local Labour Party was excluding supporters of the national party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, from becoming councillors.

She was joined on the list by Lewisham councillors Sakina Sheikh and Brenda Dacres, as well as local deputy mayor Janet Daby.

We begin campaigning across the constituency, starting by leafleting in Wombwell with a local councillor Daniel Griffin and a stalwart of my local party, Lee Parkinson.

Liberal Democrats have lost lost hundreds of local councillors, dropped behind UKIP in some polls and lost their deposit at three Westminster by - elections.

The Labour decline was also accompanied by a spike in the number of minor party councillors, mostly concentrated in specific local authorities.

The Conservative Party, by contrast, lost over 100 seats to finish with 511 councillors, its lowest - ever tally of seats in a London local election.

He's a parliamentary candidate too but we won the day by working together with local people and councillors against plans for the incinerator.

The local election results are a consequence of the Government's disregard for the mounting pressure faced by councils «and the pain it is causing their residents», according to Steve Houghton, a Labour councillor and chair of SIGOMA, the collective voice of urban areas representing many of the large towns and cities in the Northern, Midland and South Coast regions of England.

The Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Commissioner is scrutinised by the Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Panel, made up of elected councillors from the local authorities in the police area.

``... an active campaign against my leadership by a local Momentum organiser, being called a neo-Nazi by some Corbyn t - shirt wearing person outside the Labour Party Conference, and events at a national level targeting Labour Councillors and Labour Councils that do not conform to the particular form of ideological purity that seems to have taken a grip of the party...»

It was learnt that the former councillors who served from 2013 - 2016 in local government areas across the state had stormed the Government House in Yenagoa to demand payment of their severance gratuities and backlog of entitlements owed them by the government.

I've a feeling the Tories have retained the odd councillor in Mansfield, though as in Ashfield they are heavily impacted by independent candidates in local elections.

We are proud to be represented in Parliament by our MP Andrew Bridgen, and in councils at every level of local government by many fabulous and committed local councillors.

At a national level this is the week of the by - election in Norwich North, at the local level it is the first full Council meeting in Haringey with a Conservative councillor after an absence of seven years.

Councillor Feryal Demirci, cabinet member for neighbourhoods, transport and parks, said: «I'm delighted that the majority of parents and local residents agree with our proposal to close Crondall Street during school pick ‑ up and drop ‑ off times.The vast majority of children in Hackney walk or cycle to school, but too many children still make the journey by car.»