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Tuesday, July 2, 2024
Following Councillor Peter Chapman's indiscretion I decided to write to Weymouth & Portland Borough Council. Please find the reply below Dear Mr Cridland Thank you for your email dated the 13th March 2013.  I am the Monitoring Officer at Weymouth & Portland Borough Council and it is in that...

The Blame Game

The Government are playing a game. They don’t serve the needs of the pubic. They serve a wealthy elite. The Coalition don’t care about the consequences of taking money from the poorest and giving it to the wealthiest. But they won’t tell us that. They are playing the game...
Dear All With reference to The Guardian on-line (https://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/mar/15/dwp-law-change-jobseekers-poundland). I wish to it be understood that should the Labour Party support the government in the pursuit of emergency legislation to deny repayments that the English Courts have ruled were illegally with-held, then I will resign from the Labour Party....

Protest Weymouth Dorset

PROTEST Aranged for 15th March 12 noon till 2pm out side the council offices.Weymouth & Portland Borough Council Council Offices North QuayWeymouth  Dorset DT4 8TA Anyone who maybe interested in joining us please feel free too, all welcome.We will be holding a peaceful protest against bedroom tax and please...
David Cameron 10 Downing Street London SW1A 2AA 24 February 2013 Dear Mr Cameron, Progress report on your time in number 10 so far.   Lord Freud, DWP and Atos, work capability assessment: 10,000 deaths before, during or after testing with nearly half of all appeals being upheld...

Bedroom Tax

Thousands of people across Dorset will be effected by the Government’s introduction of the controversial ‘bedroom tax’ in April. The penalty scheme will apply to tenants of social housing who are deemed to be under-occupying their home and will, on average, reduce their housing benefit by over £50 a...
David Cameron and George Osborne have continually repeated that there is no alternative to their failing austerity programme. I feel that there needs to be a clear statement from the Left that there is an alternative to austerity and it goes beyond just cutting less deep and less fast.I have...
The graph (inset) shows the accumulated amount of donations to the Tory Party since 2001 from forty one individuals or companies linked to the private health care industry. The accumulated figure for that period is more than £8.3million. I was able to gain this information from a list of declared...
How Dorset MP's voted in the Gay Marriage Bill - For: Conor Burns (Bournemouth West); Oliver Letwin (Dorset West) & Annette Brooke (Dorset Mid and Poole North)  Against: Richard Drax (Dorset South); Christopher Chope (Christchurch); Robert Syms (Poole) & Robert Walter (Dorset North) Did not vote: Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East)

Keep Dorset Enterprises Open

The Dorset Enterprises factory has been providing supported employment for people with disabilities in the Borough since 1914, making garden furniture for a number of prestigious clients. Bournemouth Borough Council are set to close the factory in a matter of weeks putting 22 people out of work, most of...