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Sick to death of top staff @cityofyork & LGA again blaming Cllrs for all evils-any balanced report would address the ever more dysfunctional ever more controlling #PiRFailFloydx2 management too. The report from the latest Monitoring Officer does tells all
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‘Something seriously wrong’ at York council, says independent expert #YorkNews #York
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Gwen Swinburn 🇬🇧🇺🇦🏴xx retweeted
Who decides what gets built in your town?
Not your elected councillor anymore. ❌
Labour's new planning rules make officer decisions the default and strip councillors of the power to call in applications. Committee meetings are already being cancelled.
Speeding up development by silencing local voices isn't reform. It's less democracy.
Gwen Swinburn 🇬🇧🇺🇦🏴xx retweeted
I’ve worked with some fantastic journalists in my 29 years on the job. My pride at @Gabriel_Pogrund knows no bounds for example. But what @RosamundUrwin had to go through to get the Brand allegations past the lawyers and over the line is of a different order from anything I’ve ever achieved in this job. She is brave, principled, a great reporter, a beautiful writer and a gutsy human being. I am frankly proud to know her let alone call her a friend. The KC who lost his rag earlier should rot in hell
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If only the Council had been warned about the risks five years ago….
Council-owned housebuilder needed £3.4m taxpayer bailout to avoid administration ift.tt/GqOPMVm
Gwen Swinburn 🇬🇧🇺🇦🏴xx retweeted
The Rejoiners are deliberately lying again just like with Project Fear in 2016: a million lost jobs (no, more jobs!); Emergency budget? (No need); JP Morgan moving to Paris? (No - building a London tower block now). These new nonsense claims - 4% / 8% cost etc are equally as dishonest. Based on forecasts and estimates only. Assume no trade deal, when we have best one EU has ever done !?
🙄On Brexit costing 8% of GDP
👏Well done @mikejwood MP
❓Where are BBC Verify and @FullFact ?
📣Can we at least strip dishonesty and ignorance from the conversation if we must keep debating Brexit?
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Gwen Swinburn 🇬🇧🇺🇦🏴xx retweeted
🚨We are delighted to announce that two of our members, who took legal action after challenging @BristolCouncil, have concluded their judicial review.
Gwen Swinburn 🇬🇧🇺🇦🏴xx retweeted
Labour manifesto committed to replacing the existing business rates model with a updated, revenue-neutral system
Today @JohnHealey_MP secured an outdated system that gifts @AmazonUK to operate with less tax burden for decades, as business rates are to be to Mayors! #Budget2026
Gwen Swinburn 🇬🇧🇺🇦🏴xx retweeted
So much for Business Rates Reform & Replace as promised in Labour Manifesto
@JohnHealey_MP just promised 10 years of business rates to local Mayors
Business ratess allows @AmazonUK and other online giants to operate with lower costs than High St operators! #Budget2026
Gwen Swinburn 🇬🇧🇺🇦🏴xx retweeted
A sub transept is a smaller transept further east than the main transepts- a uniquely English feature we find them at Salisbury, Lincoln & here at York, where they do not stick out from the choir but raise up through the vaults.
So @labouryork & its three statutory officers should have addressed this in April & halted capital programme
But that isn’t the half of it is it?
Cllrs have been literally silenced by statutory officers on the tens of millions Equal Pay obligations in next couple of years.
Papers published last night brought a stark wake up call to years of misrunning of the city’s council with York facing an incredible £32.3 million budget gap over the next two years.
Even worse, Labour wants to borrow more to try to solve the problem!
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So this should be interesting @YNYCombined !!! @labouryork @yorklibdems @ConservativesYO @rachel_melly_ ht @bristol_citizen
As mayors gain greater powers and control over funding, how should scrutiny and accountability evolve?
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