Today’s Echo brings food for thought. Local UKIP chairman James Moyies announced the party will not put up any candidates where the Independents are standing. Is it some kind of arranged pact? It doesn’t look like it, if Independent leader Martin Terry’s comments are anything to go by. Apparently, it’s as much of a...
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Last week John Barber, Event and Missing Communities Coordinator for Southend Community in Harmoney Partnership, asked the question that sparked controversial comments from UKIP candidate Garry Cockrill over equality law, gay rights and religious freedom. Here, Mr Barber explains to Councilbust.com his views on the issue, and why he raised the matter at the...
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By Rachel Charman This morning I began ploughing through the news I read every day and for a moment thought I had slipped through the time-space continuum and plopped out into 1997. Why? Because once again, the major political parties are arguing over fox hunting. It fills me with disappointment that politicians still find...
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James Harrod, editor of Longpier.com argues that it’s now time to sell off the area’s biggest asset to a private company. I don’t write many opinion pieces but there is one subject that really upsets me. The future of our famous “pleasure” pier; the longest in the world. Of course my website was named...
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One of the most common complaints against local authorities is that they make decisions behind closed doors, without including the public enough, keeping them like the the proverbial mushrooms in order to impose procedures nobody agrees with. The latest example of this is the row over the expansion of Southend Airport. The public do...
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FOCUS: Southend Against The Cuts Debate
The Southend Against The Cuts (SATC) hustings was a funny old affair. Organised by the PCS Union, it was part cuts debate and part unofficial election hustings. This being so, there was no sign of the Tories, unsurprisingly. Why would a party with a huge majority, in the middle of a devastating round of...
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