Please can someone explain why Dorset has such a low funding level per head of population in comparison to every other Conservative council in the country. And then please explain why Weymouth and Portland has the highest council tax bill in the whole country? The highest -...
Following the revelation of the following squirreling by local councils: *Dorset County Council £101,322,000 *Bournemouth £85,397,000 *Borough of Poole £59,014,000 *East Dorset £13,050,000 *Christchurch £9,308,000 *Purbeck £7,054,000 *West Dorset £35,108,000 *North Dorset £7,051,000 *Weymouth and Portland £12,774,000 I decided to respond: To be a prudent treasurer is seen as an achievement in...
The Supreme Court today handed down its judgment, ruling that the UK Government requires a Parliamentary vote before triggering article 50 and formally starting the Brexit process. Theresa May's government had argued that it was not necessary to publish an Act of Parliament and that the Government had the authority...
Councillors who represent us on the five councils which currently run the South East Dorset Conurbation are meeting this month to decide on the way forward for local governance and decision making. Our democratic structure relies on them to accept and welcome the need to modernise and to react accordingly. The...
This Thursday (5th January 2017) marks the start of formal debate and scrutiny by all Dorset councils of the proposals for changing the county’s local government structures. A full report setting out on the evidence for local government reorganisation in Dorset was published on Friday 23rd December 2016. Borough of Poole’s Overview and...
Councillors in Dorset will consider a report in January on proposals to replace the county’s existing nine councils with two new unitary authorities by 2019. In a joint statement, leaders of the nine Dorset Councils, said: “We all recognise the mood for change strongly expressed by Dorset residents through...
I have watched the steady installation of a monument near Redcliffe View in Weymouth these past weeks. I had no clue what the monument was commemorating or memorialising as my dog walk route does not usually take me that close to the end of Bincleaves Road. However, yesterday morning with my bad timing of the...
Hard-working people are being ripped off by some of the UK's leading companies...A group of Labour MPs wanted to highlight this, with a Christmas song. The song, to the tune of the 1980's Band Aid hit Do They Know It’s Christmas, was recorded by MPs including Dan Jarvis, Angela Rayner, and Mary Creagh.Some UK firms are using...
Public consultation results show clear backing for change to local government structures in Dorset. In the household survey, which is representative of the county’s population, almost three quarters support reducing Dorset’s councils from nine to two, with over two thirds of open questionnaire respondents also agreeing. Deliberative and qualitative...
New EU-wide proposals to help farmers secure a better deal for their products have come down in favour of a system pioneered in Britain.Julie Girling, Conservative MEP for the South West and Gibraltar, broadly welcomed the long-awaited findings from the European Commission's Agricultural Markets Task Force and said: "It...
