Ellie Chowns says: I’ve been asking some pointed questions about the council’s recent budget consultation. In particular, I’m frustrated that there was no consultation on the capital budget. This is where Hfds Council currently has quite a lot of ‘wiggle room’, given that it recently made nearly £50m from selling off the farms. Only half […]
Read More… from Response to 2019-2020 Herefordshire Council Budget Consultation
Trish appeared on the BBC Sunday Politics Midlands TV programme, on 7 October – watch here on BBC iPlayer. (available until 3 November) Discussion included: Council house building – “make all new houses affordable to run by building to high energy efficiency standards” Hospital services, A&E restricted opening hours – “Tory announcement that community hospitals […]
Read More… from Trish Marsh appears on BBC Sunday Politics Midlands
My first full Council meeting was last Friday, and it had a full agenda: setting the 2018/19 budget (including the proposed 4.9% rise in Council Tax) and approving the Capital Programme, as well as approving the continuation of the Council Tax reduction scheme. I voted for the latter, but did not feel able to support […]
Speak for all? JESSE Norman has announced that he wants to represent the people of Hereford & South Herefordshire again. But does he actually want to speak for all of the people in our community, or just the better off? Does he actually care about those of us who are less well off? In the […]
Read More… from Does Jesse Norman speak for all? H Times letter 25 May 2017
You might have thought that there was no one left on a trolley in a hospital corridor. That our social care system wasn’t on its knees. That climate change wasn’t a crisis that threatens our very future or that there was no air pollution epidemic linked to the deaths of tens of thousands. This budget […]
Come along for an upbeat evening workshop exploring the realities behind austerity on Wednesday 18th January at 7.30pm. This session will be presented by Charles Grimes of Positive Money, and is the first of the new year’s Politics & Ethics evenings at De Koffie Pot from our friends at Herefordshire Green Network. Every Wednesday evening […]
THE HEREFORD TIMES has recently been filled with reports about valuable services and projects that help the vulnerable: Citizens Advice Bureau, the Marches Access Point, and the Barnabas Deaf and Community Support Service. All reports had one common and dispiriting theme – because of funding cuts, the organisations are struggling to stay open or are […]
The Conservatives say we must race to ‘balance the books’, and cut even more, but the Green party believes a better way of rebalancing the economy is to invest in public services and in protecting the environment, also the mark of a caring, civilised society. I don’t want ‘the job finished’ if that means more […]
