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February 09, 2012
Splott is not South Shields!
30 strong Labour entourage tour ward for votes Yes, you can tell that the local elections will soon be upon us, as news reaches this desk that a large throng of Labour party members joined South Shields MP David Miliband in banging doors and canvassing support in Splott! The globe trotting tourist and mega earning [...]
An big old boiler churns out hot air
South Shields Town Hall heating argument won’t cool down Perhaps he has a point, but surely it should have been argued and publicised last year when the item was up for discussion, not now when the work to install the new heating system is almost completed. It always seemed to me, in the past and [...]
February 05, 2012
Blowing your own trumpet……….
…….or even a saxaphone Jimmy? Funny what the internet throws at you from time to time. As South Tyneside councillors start to avail themselves of every possible photo opportunity before the elections in May, with nightly appearances in The Shields Gazette, and newletters littering your doormats, I find a one without a fistful of dominoes [...]
January 30, 2012
South Tyneside Council prefers to tax widows, divorcees, and single people!
Council amongst group who wish to see discount abolished. Currently, if you are a single person living in a household you are entitled to a 25% reduction on your council tax bill, presumably because you make far fewer demands on your local council in areas such as waste collection, water and sewerage, education, library services, [...]
David Miliband using tax loophole for avoidance
Annual tax savings estimated at six figures! South Shields’ part time MP David Miliband may add another couple of words to his CV having been variously described as a globe trotter, Labour leadership loser, former Foreign Secretary, chip shop connoisseur, banana waver, a man with high earning outside interests, and now a tax avoider! Since [...]
Kung Hey Fat Choi!
Tied up by Chinese New Year I spent most of yesterday in Newcastle Upon Tyne with my daughter taking in the sights, sounds, smells, and tastes of the Chinese New Year celebrations in the Stowell Street area. It is something that she particularly enjoys, so she brought a friend along to share the experience. They [...]
January 26, 2012
Have I missed out on a tax reduction?
Labour’s Iain Malcolm in odd statement Cllr. Iain Malcolm, Labour’s Leader of South Tyneside District council is quoted today as saying: “We have been able to reduce council tax year on year since I become leader.” Has a year been missed out of my life? Have I been in a state of cryogenic suspended animation [...]
January 23, 2012
Moral duties
Pickles: councils have a “moral duty” to freeze council taxes. I guess it is seen as good politics to embarrass those council leaders who are turning down the opportunity of a central grant which will enable them to freeze council tax for a second year, I for one, along with thousands of others in South [...]
January 15, 2012
Dreaming in kitsch
Obsession with tourism must be troubling me I woke fairly early this morning after a long and troubling dream in which I had just witnessed the opening in fifteen years time of the newest South Shields entertainment initiative. Iain Malcolm South Tyneside’s (by then) veteran Labour Leader had seen his latest dream come to fruition, [...]
January 11, 2012
Relaunch No.6 “Doing the right thing”
Keeping Ed Miliband may be the “right thing” for Cameron Video courtesy of Guido Fawkes. I don’t know how you feel, but I find it rather difficult to “connect” with this bloke, he may want to do the “right thing” but he never sounds right, nor looks right, and as Leader of the Opposition he [...]
January 06, 2012
South Shields call centre back in use
Former Garland’s building sees new occupiers Good to note that (without a lot of publicity) the former CJ Garland’s call centre on Long Row, South Shields is now in the process of firing up its telephone lines again, as a local “outsourcing operation” has moved from the old Co-op building in Jarrow to occupy part [...]
January 02, 2012
2012 predictions
Welcome back my friends. First a bit of music to cheer you all up, and may I extend a big welcome to you all as we begin a New Year in South Tyneside’s first and oldest political blog, I wish you all a Happy New Year and hope that it brings some sort of cheer [...]
December 28, 2011
Cllr. Joan Meeks
Sudden loss of South Tyneside councillor I was greatly saddened to learn today of the rather sudden and untimely loss of Labour councillor Joan Meeks. I had not been intending to return to this page until the New Year, but it would be remiss of me not to record my warm memories and personal [...]
December 19, 2011
Merry Christmas to all
I may not be back for a while. Just as I was about to make a post regarding Cameron, Clegg, Miliband and the Eurozone debt crisis my desktop PC suffered a crisis of its own. Some sort of hardware issue is preventing Windows from booting, so I’m competing for time and space with the kids [...]
December 12, 2011
South Shields’ girls in X Factor win!
Little Mix chased the dream. Exactly two years ago I used this video to illustrate this particular post where I said “I think that South Shields girl Jade Thirlwall should think seriously about having another go at the X Factor, she could well emulate Joe McElderry next year.” OK, so it took a little longer, [...]
December 03, 2011
New South Tyneside mayoral car
Vorsprung durch Technik In a week which has been full of further austerity packages both in the UK and Europe, yes folks the coalition government is failing to meet its own financial targets and must do more of what their EU masters demand, it is good to see that South Tyneside Council is about to [...]
November 28, 2011
South Tyneside’s five month election campaign!
No – honestly, it isn’t until May next year. Surely this must go down as the longest election campaign in South Tyneside’s history, however the Labour Party is already out of the blocks and up and running! Former Mayor John Anglin has announced in a letter to residents of the Beacon and Bents ward in [...]
Nigel Farage – Eurosceptic Rave
Let’s make this viral I came across this via one of the UKIP leader’s tweets, and well goodness me he’s a dance track! The track is called Star Circle 2 by Johnny Slide you can download it from here and perhaps embed it in your own site, spread it around – at least in South [...]
November 23, 2011
Cllr. Khan was unavailable for comment this morning
Oh that does make a pleasant change, but hang on a minute, he has plenty to say this afternoon on his Twitter page where he uses this picture to represent his account. The file is entitled smb.jpg, I wonder if the “m” stands for monkey? Really, there are times when it is better advised to [...]
November 21, 2011
What would Maggie have said?
High level talks Click pictures to enlarge I’m very grateful to former South Shields councillor George Wilkinson who unearthed these pictures from his family album showing George and a very younger yours truly in talks with the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The pictures were taken in March 1982 at the Five Bridges Hotel in [...]
November 20, 2011
Another week dominated by Euro debt crisis
What gives them the right? Apologies for the lack of posts during this past week, it’s been a busy time at work and domestic disaster has struck too, not much has been going on in South Tyneside other than the production of posters invoking us to vote for Little Mix on ITV’s X Factor, however [...]
November 13, 2011
South Shields remembers her fallen.
Remembrance Sunday in South Tyneside As Her Majesty the Queen led the nation’s tributes by paying respect to our fallen heroes at the Cenotaph in Whitehall, here in South Tyneside a number of remembrance events took place around the borough coinciding with the televised event in London. Services were held in South Shields, Jarrow, Hebburn, [...]
November 11, 2011
Acts of remembrance
South Tyneside commences weekend of quiet contemplation It was 93 years ago today that the guns on the Western Front fell silent at the end of the Great War at 11:00, it was supposed to be a war that ended all wars, sadly we were only entering another century littered with conflicts around the globe. [...]
Cllr. David Potts joins UKIP
Party gains first councillor in South Tyneside Cllr. David Potts, the former Conservative then independent representative for Cleadon Village and East Boldon ward in South Tyneside has officially joined the UK Independence Party, there now appears to be little chance at all of him resigning his seat in the near future. He becomes the first [...]
November 10, 2011
Restored to glory!
Brunswick War Memorial restored and unveiled at South Shields Town Hall This is a story which moved me, I’d come across a tiny part of it whilst watching one of Bill Clavery’s DVDs showing his collection of old pictures of the Laygate area of South Shields. Not long after the Armistice at the end of [...]
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