Sentences with phrase «councillors making»

So it's not just local councillors making off - colour jokes about gays and ethnic minorities who are going to get the order of the boot.

We need to persuade people every day between now and May the seventh that their lives will be better with Liberal Democrat councillors making a difference in their communities, Liberal Democrat MPs fighting their corner in Westminster and Liberal Democrat ministers serving them in government.

Thank you to all the Longmeadow and Bragbury End Community Garden volunteers and local Councillors making a difference to our local environment pic.twitter.com / e2vgjKLjoP

Many local councillors make a huge contribution to the communities they serve.

Nevertheless efforts are said to be under way in Walthamstow to deselect Creasy, with a demonstration taking place outside her constituency office last night and a local councillor making threatening noises.

Northumberland County Council's cabinet councillors made the decision this week to «improve the quality of education» in Alnwick — despite opposition from parents.

Stephen Twigg MP, Labour's shadow education secretary, said: «When a Tory councillor makes openly racist comments like these, it's no surprise people still think of the Conservatives as the nasty party.»

And Stephen Twigg MP, Labour's shadow education secretary, said the councillor made made «openly racist comments» and it was «no surprise people still think of the Conservatives as the nasty party».

Not exact matches

By the way, [Councillor] Josh Matlow put forward this benign suggestion that would be a tiny step forward in having the city more connected, and that is in some of the major public places [like city hall] you'd have wi - fi made available.

When he first made his venture public in 2002, it was still just an idea, and he insisted it was contingent upon the construction of a bridge to replace the island airport's existing ferry service — a project with many detractors, including then city councillor Olivia Chow, now the area's NDP member of Parliament.

These seats were last contested in 2012 and saw Labour make gains of over 500 councillors under the leadership of Ed Miliband.

It is no secret that the Katz Group would like the City of Edmonton to loan upwards of $ 400 million towards a new downtown arena, likely making it the largest non-transportation-related one - time investment that our municipality will have ever made (Councillor Don Iveson recently explained the funding request issue more articulately than I ever could here and here).

Local Councillors have expressed criticism of the Labour council who made the deal with the church in exchange for turning their old building into a new school.

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.»

Councillors in Coventry will make a decision on whether Premiership rugby club Wasps» proposal to take over the Ricoh Arena operating company ACL in a # 30million deal.

I recall that, at an event in Glasgow, Councillor Jim Coleman told me how women in some parts of the city were made to feel that breastfeeding was evidence that someone could not afford to buy formula.

Whitmill was seen as the favourite after making it on to the final three - person shortlist approved by Conservative HQ, along with Courts and fellow councillor John Cotton.

An HMRC spokesperson said: «The introduction of a tax exemption for travel expenses paid to councillors, including journeys between their home and most frequently used council offices, will make the rules clearer and more consistent.»

Some were making blood - curdling predictions of Tory losses in the hundreds, but as I write on Friday morning the party has actually gained councillors.

Standards in public life are in the gutter when Tory activists, councillors and at least one MP, Tim Loughton, a juvenile former children's minister, are prepared to assert falsely that they «support the aims and values of the Labour Party» and are «not a supporter of any organisation opposed to it» to make an unwitting # 3 donation when they're rumbled as registered supporters.

«It allows every councillor to consciously make a decision with regard to senior pay... it just seems to me to be a reasonable thing to do.»

Blackman, like the rest of our MPs, says she is «very rarely» made aware of her age, a fact that diverges from her time as a councillor.

The result is a seat where small differences in the character of each ward make the difference when it comes to councillors.

She is also supporting local councillors who have asked the council administration to immediately expand the Enhanced Enforcement Area to a wider area of Govanhill and to make a long term commitment to the regeneration of the area.»

The make - up of the 48 - seat Town Hall remains unchanged with Labour in control with 23 councillors, the Liberal Democrats with 16, the Greens seven and Independent Working Class Association two.

The Deputy has in theory been open to councillors as the other elected members and that is being made easier in practice by a 15 % (60 nominations) threshold for councillors.

A fightback is now well and truly underway with the Sun, Telegraph, Express and Mail doing (1) a particularly good job at highlighting waste in those councils making the biggest cuts in local government and (2) also the massive inflation in councillor remuneration.

And last year, a Labour councillor was accused of making death threats against one of his former group colleagues, Rania Khan, who now serves in Rahman's cabinet.

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.

[4] On 8 July 2009 he was made a Privy Councillor.

In a letter to Thames Valley Police, Tory councillor Simon Dudley spoke of «aggressive begging» and claimed that some rough sleepers had rejected help from local services and were therefore making «a voluntary choice».

My views have made me unpopular with some of my colleagues, but my position as a local councillor means that I am in the fortunate position of being aware of more of the evidence, and not just the information the tobacco companies feed me.

«We've spent months working on plans to open up empty buildings across the city to make sure nobody has to sleep rough on the streets this winter,» councillor Paul Andrews said.

I have already published my councillor expenses on my website for some time and I have been critical of those politicians making frivolous claims.

Before people start getting worried about attempts to destroy the Lib Dems from within which it could be argued members who subscribe to the «Orange Book» have inadvertently already made a start on, I used to be a Lib Councillor.

Though Pursglove was frequently made aware of his age during his time as a councillor, he insists that his parliamentary colleagues have in no way approached him in a patronising or condescending manner.

The Tories didn't increase their count of councillors here last week, but they've made up huge ground on vote share, turning a 12.5 % gap into a 1.5 % gap by hoovering up Ukip votes, despite Labour's vote share also rising.

In BBC One's Sunday Politics poll of more than 500 Lib Dem councillors, 38 % said he would make the best successor.

They now have more than 300 councillors, enough to make them a significant presence in town halls up and down the country.

The party's Caroline Spelman made her intentions clear when she unequivocally sacked the Tory councillor Nigel Hastilow for refusing to apologise for his use of Enoch Powell's «rivers of blood» speech.

So if you live in any of those constituencies, please make your feelings known to your returning officer, electoral services department and councillors.

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.

UKIP leader Nigel Farage has said that his party was «right to get rid of» councillor Rozanne Duncan, following comments she made in a TV documentary.

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.

In 2000, it was made public that Blackman had had an 11 - year affair (which began in the late 80s) with a colleague he met whilst working as a councillor at the Brent East Conservative Association.

And individual politicians and public representatives at all levels - from the Prime Minister to an opposition backbencher and from a school governor or local councillor - have an important role in working with us and with people with diabetes to make diabetes a priority.

Eric Kitson resigned as UKIP councillor in Worcestershire after making anti semitic posts on his Facebook page.

Always having government imposed numbers to hide behind, councillors were never put in a place where they had to make strong, positive arguments for increased local housing.

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.