Sentences with phrase «of localism»
Only a week after the high court ruled prayers at council meetings to be unlawful, the communities secretary announced he would fast - track aspects of the localism act in a bid to overturn the judgement.
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«Dominic Raab and Bob Blackman celebrate the new Government's belief in civil liberties in their maiden speeches Main Matthew Hancock speaks in praise of localism in his maiden speech as Mark Reckless and Nigel Mills highlight police accountability and funding»
The kind of localism advocated by the Tories is closely linked to the right - wing Lib Dem policies seen in the «Orange Book», but the language remains very much Tory.
Nigel Adams, head of democratic services, says: «We understand that there are people, including some eminent legal people, who are not convinced that this part of the Localism Act does what Eric Pickles says it will do.»
From a developer perspective, too, this part of the Localism Bill is regarded as potty.
The policy areas on which his Party most disagrees with the Conservatives are (AV aside) Europe, the NHS, housing benefit, security, Trident and aspects of localism.
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has speeded along implementation of the Localism Act to ensure that councils in England are allowed to say prayers at the start of their meetings.
Matthew Hancock speaks in praise of localism in his maiden speech as Mark Reckless and Nigel Mills highlight police accountability and funding
Our social heterogeneity and long tradition of localism in determining curriculum has produced a different approach: we start with standards, next we develop assessments, and then teachers, schools, and districts decide what content to teach our students, with varying support and guidance from their states.
Another is an awareness of the overall decline of denominationalism, coupled with a growth of localism and congregational decision - making.
In an era of localism and regional autonomy, today's SBC leaders face an increasingly difficult challenge in beating the drum for denominational loyalty.
We have learned that the great weakness of localism is that it fails to address the injustices that are part of local custom, and that face - to - face communities are often intolerant of difference.
So denominations are curiously caught between the ideology and spirit of ecumenism and the practice and spirit of localism.
Where the big society is seen by many as a cover for spending cuts, some of the provisions of the Localism Bill aim to make local authorities more accountable for the way public money is spent.
Because devolution goes to the heart of the localism debate, we've put together a representative cross-section of what's out there.
Put simply, free schools are the very opposite of localism.
It offends against the principle of localism.»
When the - then local government secretary Eric Pickles visited Frome in February 2015, he pronounced it the «home of localism», bought a copy, and after having lunch with Macfadyen, insisted that he sign it.
On Tuesday, during the Report stage of the Localism Bill, 21 Tory MPs supported an amendment in the name of newbie MP John Stevenson, which aimed to change the electoral system for electing mayors from the supplementary vote to FPTP.
Labour has tried everything — short of localism — to tackle this problem and after twelve years it has comprehensively failed.
Mark Reckless, the new MP for Rochester and Strood and a keen supporter of localism and direct democracy, turned his attention to police accountability:
David Cameron, through strong leadership, can light a beacon for a Europe of localism and fiscal sanity.
«The secretary of state's role should be to facilitate necessary savings while promoting the advance of localism and the «big society».
The additional cuts to local government, transport and public sector pay will squeeze already - strained public services, making a mockery of the localism agenda and adding more pressure on the cost of living.
The magazine included an essay by the Mayor of London Boris Johnson MP which called for a greater degree of localism and urban devolution.
«Not only is he over-riding the courts but also the will of Parliament that never considered prayers during the drafting of the Localism Act - and which makes no mention of prayers - to be used in this way.»
This is both because of the virtues of localism and civil society and because the federal government is by no means always on the side of the angels when it comes to fairness — remember the Fugitive Slave Act, Dred Scott, Plessy, the WWII - era internment of Americans of Japanese descent, race - based redlining.
When you learn to surf by yourself you will not have problems in getting your share of waves without big arguments, the famous problem of localism, as sadly already happens north of the Algarve notably in Lisbon region, Peniche, Ericeira, etc..
This is where the blogosphere is helping us break the tryanny of localism.
This discussion will investigate how biennials foster dialogue with local and global audiences, address and interpret the politics of localism, the role of regional discourses, and if localism and globalism are the pivotal frameworks for biennials.
In its own inadvertent way, Art of Another Kind is an advertisement for the benefits of localism.
But the sections I read contained inconsistencies that troubled me — like Klein's call to end free trade (in defense of localism) but support it, too (in defense of China's ability to sell its cheap solar panels as widely as possible).
But there's also the fantasy, common in so many corners, that the climate problem (and the sustainability problem writ large) admits of neat solutions, and that some sort of localism will not just add some value but suffice to get us through.
The foregoing discussion has been about Stage 1 of this revolution, that is, the development of localism, involving both the creation of new citizen - run institutions and more importantly the spread of the new world view.
Some may say that the destruction of SMEs, the abandonment of localism, and the removal of choice would all be worth it, if there could be a better system of criminal legal aid; these would be prices worth paying for better criminal justice.
The Labour case against the bill is a strong one, which ought to appeal to Lib Dem traditions of localism: they say it is unfair to spatchcock the boundary changes and reduction of parliamentary seats on to the referendum, putting the two together in one bill.
«The new guidance builds on existing transparency measures introduced as part of the Localism Act and is part of the new arrangements for local authority standards that replaced the bureaucratic and controversial Standards Board regime, abolished in 2012, which ministers believe had become a vehicle for malicious, petty and politically motivated complaints.»
The decision contains observations about the relevance of a closed pub's recent trading history, and its current planning status, when assessing its future prospects for the purpose of section 88 (2)(b) of the Localism Act 2011.
Hapless Americanisms such as «stepping up to the plate» do not suggest a great awareness either of localism or of local institutions.
In fact, I believe firmly that all advocates of localism should take that critique very seriously.
Talking about the exhibit now, she says she sees in the Midwest a kind of localism «of comic and self - deprecating qualities.
This is one of very few judgments on the meaning of ss 27 and 28 of the Localism Act 2011 («LA 2011») relating to standards, and provides helpful guidance for local authorities on the scope of their powers to investigate allegations of Councillor misconduct.
The Judge ruled that the Council had the power to investigate the allegations under s. 28 of the Localism Act 2011 and other provisions, and dismissed claims that the Council's process was vitiated by actual or apparent bias because of comments made by an external investigator.