Fed up with your local community’s concerns not being addressed? Frustrated by
the services provided by Dorset County Council? Angry about the lack of social
mobility in the area?
Independent councillor, Dorchester’s renowned town crier Alistair Chisholm is keen
to hear from people who feel they could do better than the current administration.
Alistair...
We were tagged by
@jolly_angelina who listed her fantasy Opposition. We then started to discuss the idea of inviting people to construct their fantasy government front bench and their manifesto for change.
If we could put in place specific people to liberate this country from the establishment chokehold who would...
The system is at war with itself and the government's lack of clarity since the pandemic began and their members who publicly broke the rules has not helped at all.
https://dorseteye.com/can-someone-please-explain-the-logic-of-the-governments-new-covid-19-policy-please/
https://dorseteye.com/boris-johnsons-covid-19-claims-destroyed-in-seconds/
Now the PCC for Dorset has joined the multitude.
https://twitter.com/celticmaid4/status/1305975379631407104?s=20
Whatever one's politics it would take the most extremely dogmatic to not...
We get a one off shot at electing ward councillors every four years. 75 councillors for thirty three BCP wards.
As matters stand now in Spring 2023 I think many would agree we have not known our country in a worse state going back many decades.
Medical staff in our National...
You may think this is just satire. It is a lot more than that. It is empirically accurate.
Here is the evidence of the Conservative and corporate media lies: https://dorseteye.com/the-conservatives-have-been-the-biggest-borrowers-over-the-last-70-years-2/
And locally every Dorset MP is a Tory and yet the county is awash with evidence of suffering and hardship: https://dorseteye.com/bournemouth-child-poverty-figures-reveal-tories-are-failing-most-vulnerable/
It...
Another excellent weekly session with the leader of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole council Vikki Slade.
21st November 2023 We represent a range of organisations and individuals working on audit and accountability, local government and local democracy. We are deeply concerned about the current situation in local government audit. In October, a cross-party group of MPs and Peers wrote to the Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, asking him not...
Been avidly watching The Big Match Revisited on Saturday mornings. Re-runs of the old football show showing matches from the mid-to-late 1970’s.
Some things make a stark contrast from today’s football: the shocking state of the pitches; back-passes which the ‘keepers (some of whom are not wearing gloves) pick up; and tackles that can only be described as ‘agricultural’ but...
Former minister Conor Burns has had the Tory whip restored after being cleared of “serious misconduct” at the party conference in October.
In a statement, the party said that after reviewing all the available evidence it had concluded there was “no basis on which to investigate further” and that the matter...
Here are the election results for the 2024 Canford Cliffs by-election, Thursday 2 May 2024.
Elected candidate:
Gavin Wright, Conservative and Unionist Party.
Candidate name:Description (if any):Number of votes:BUCHANAN JimLabour Party 317SPARROW RayLiberal Democrats 573TUTTON JohnnyGreen Party 163WRIGHT GavinConservative and Unionist Party 1720
Overall turnout was 35.41 per cent. There were 2,804 ballot papers issued.
While you are...
