Labour appears to make late announcement of new Residents Parking Zone Residents have every right to be suspicious of announcements two weeks before an election
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People who have been campaigning for a new Residents Parking Zone in their area of Bristol have finally been told plans will be brought forward, just 13 days before the local council election.
Over the past year our libraries and other community facilities have, for the most part, been closed. Some briefly opened for restricted services before the second lockdown. Some, which can more easily operate under social distancing, are once again scheduled to reopen now that we are moving out of lockdown. Libraries sit at the heart of our communities across Glasgow. Though many are the inheritance of Victorian philanthropy and still provide essential access to books, newspapers, periodicals and the educational opportunities of the printed word; libraries in the 21st century are so much more. They provide access to digital technology and the internet which not everyone can afford at home. They are advice centres where, for example, Macmillan Cancer Support provide ground breaking assistance to cancer patients and their families. Councillors, MPs and MSPs hold their surgeries there.
At the last full council meeting local resident James Noble spoke for many in our city when he put the following question to the meeting. He said: “Nuclear weapons are not in the council’s mandate, competency or power, therefore allowing such debates and wasting the council’s time makes a large group of residents view it as a joke. “I therefore ask his worship the mayor, should such debates be allowed in future and was it correct for this one to proceed in the first place? I know in the constitution, under the rules and procedures, it says that every motion shall be relevant to a matter in relation to which the council has power.”
BRIGHTON and Hove city council debated nuclear weapons in an explosive meeting branded “disgraceful” by the standards chief after a row about racism. City councillors debated the feasibility and benefits of nuclear disarmament in a Full Council meeting which was abandoned after the live stream went down amid technical difficulties. The meeting became embroiled in a row about racism. Conservative councillor Mary Mears questioned the council’s anti-racist stance after councillor Nancy Platts had not answered Argus questions relating to her time in Jeremy Corbyn’s office when he was Labour leader. These questions were raised in October following the publication of a damning report by the human rights watchdog which found the Labour Party responsible for “unlawful” harassment and discrimination of its Jewish members.