Protest at ‘wholly unjust cuts to city’ (From The Argus)
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Protest at ‘wholly unjust cuts to city’
1:40pm Saturday 8th December 2012 in News
Brighton and Hove Council leader Jason Kitcat, with councillors Lizzie Dean, Phelim MacCafferty and Ruth Buckley alongside Brighton Pavilion MP Caroline Lucas
Politicians picketed Downing Street in a bid to protect Brighton and Hove from cuts.
Just a few hours after the Chancellor delivered his autumn statement, Brighton Pavilion MP Caroline Lucas joined senior members of Brighton and Hove City Council’s Green administration on the steps of Number 11 to present a letter.
It outlined their concerns about the speech and claimed the city was being unfairly singled out for government cuts.
Council leader Jason Kitcat said: “This government and this Chancellor are doing harm to the residents and businesses of Brighton and Hove, singling us out for cuts two or three times more severe than other south east authorities.
“They’re also threatening the very existence of local government, with forecasts of cuts so deep that there will be no government funding left for local councils after 2020.”
The letter said: “The people of Brighton and Hove do not deserve the Government’s short-sighted, irresponsible and wholly unjust programme of cuts to our city.”
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Comments(30)
HJarrs
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2:11pm Sat 8 Dec 12
Maxwell's Ghost wrote:Vanity projects? Are they putting up a lot of mirrors somewhere?
So the Greens lose almost £1 million in revenue for poor management of the parking revenue stream, spend money on unnecessary vanity projects when people are struggling to pay their heating and food bills, then go cap-in-hand to ask the Government and the rest of the UK's tax payers to bail them out.
Why should the rest of the UK bail out this city when it's councillors are frittering away money.
I find this astonishing.
HJarrs
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2:13pm Sat 8 Dec 12
Kate234
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3:25pm Sat 8 Dec 12
HJarrs wrote:Probably embarrassed by the amount of money the Greens have frittered away and don't want to ask for anymore in case it gets used for another anti-car/tourism scheme. I'm not sure any sane politician would want to be associated with the Green motley crew.
Where are Weatherley, Kirby, Theobold and co? They are part of the ruling party. Where are they when the city needs support to stop government grants being slashed? Nowhere to be seen!
NickBtn
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3:32pm Sat 8 Dec 12
Is this yet another cost that we're having to bear that other council tax payers elsewhere don't
Maxwell's Ghost
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4:24pm Sat 8 Dec 12
If you hate Brighton people so much why don't you go back to your home town instead of messing ours up.
Idontbelieveit1948
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5:05pm Sat 8 Dec 12
Problem is they are too busy "larking" around with their Green ideology to actually deal with what concerns council tax payers.
Phani Tikkala
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5:17pm Sat 8 Dec 12
Dealing with idiots
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5:26pm Sat 8 Dec 12
HJarrs wrote:Try this for starters, the Kitcat memorial vanity erection http://www.brightoni
Maxwell's Ghost wrote: So the Greens lose almost £1 million in revenue for poor management of the parking revenue stream, spend money on unnecessary vanity projects when people are struggling to pay their heating and food bills, then go cap-in-hand to ask the Government and the rest of the UK's tax payers to bail them out. Why should the rest of the UK bail out this city when it's councillors are frittering away money. I find this astonishing.Vanity projects? Are they putting up a lot of mirrors somewhere?
360.co.uk/. Every city that builds a tower comes to regret it. Kitty and co borrowing 17million because the company who wants to build it could not raise the finance. Utter madness. Only one thing to do.
Vote of no confidence in the Green administration e- petition now live on the Brighton and Hove City Council website. If you love your city and want to end the waste and destruction of the Greens, please sign the petition. We need 1250 signatures to get this discussed in full council. Surely there are 1250 angry people in the city who want to make a difference? Save Our City.
http://present.brigh
ton-hove.gov.uk/mgEP
etitionDisplay.aspx?
ID=360&RPID=6033530&
HPID=6033530
a person
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7:03pm Sat 8 Dec 12
Mr Sworld
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7:41pm Sat 8 Dec 12
Dealing with idiots
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9:24pm Sat 8 Dec 12
a person
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10:04pm Sat 8 Dec 12
I have signed the petition that’s how I know how many are on it.
I am against any over inflated / unnecessary parking charges .
A few years ago my mother was in the Sussex hospital .
The parking charges were very costly every day.
Now she is in a rest home in Hove .
A very wide road away from shops but you still have to pay to park.
I never shop in Brighton because of the charges.
Also I don’t think Brighton take enough recycling items.
For example my son lives in Worthing and they take liquid cartons.
You are told to shread everything and yet they do not take shredded paper.
You would think a green council would take everything.
Vigilia
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10:43pm Sat 8 Dec 12
I rather suspect the Chancellor feels that any council with a policy to squander £1,000 a day on travellers and land squatters, who contribute nothing to its economy, really doesn't deserve any more of the general taxpayers' support.
What is the evidence that Brighton and Hove is being singled out more than other?
funkyyoyo
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11:34pm Sat 8 Dec 12
funkyyoyo
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11:36pm Sat 8 Dec 12
NickBtn wrote:thats the least of there worries,the majority of parking bays arent even legal in the town of brighton,i should know,i did a freedom of information request 2 years ago as to why baker street parking bays were repainted,the answer was dynamite!!!!
The BBC is reporting today that Brighton and Hove has been singled out - with a permanent ban on accessing DVLA information. Would be interesting to hear (assuming that this is correct) why and what Brighton and Hove have done to get this extreme punishment. What steps have been taken against those responsible and what are the implications on the city? Without access how are parking fines etc administered? The BBC say this is possible without DVLA but at a higher cost. With such a high level of parking enforcement in the city this must be a high cost..... Is this yet another cost that we're having to bear that other council tax payers elsewhere don't
funkyyoyo
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11:40pm Sat 8 Dec 12
sacked in disgrace
Mr Sworld
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1:32am Sun 9 Dec 12
Dealing with idiots wrote:No.
To register on the B&H site you have to give your address. They will check them to make sure they are valid. These are the online signatures, we have a growing number of paper ones as well. Only been going a week so a fair response. A person and mr Sworld..newly created accounts councillors?
Real person. Google the name if you don't believe me.
Better than being a on-line bully and troll that you obviously are.
I've been watching the puerile posts you've been putting on this website for a while.
You didn't bother to vote did you? And now because you were to lazy to go to a polling station you want to be a on-line warrior.
Sad, sad man.
We have a system to vote out unpopular governments. Have done for hundreds of years. However you might have to move your lazy fat arse once in a while.
Mr Sworld
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2:19am Sun 9 Dec 12
If you feel so strongly about the elected councilors why not put your money where your mouth is?
Its your democratic right to run for election. If you are that confident you can persuade the voters of Brighton and Hove to oust the Greens then go for it.
Why not publish your real name now and your affiliations to any political parties?
Go on, if you are that confident that your 'poll' will work you must think there are enought common minded others for you to run for public office.
Mr Sworld
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2:28am Sun 9 Dec 12
However it would just make you a coward.
Chicken...
;-)
Phani Tikkala
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8:15am Sun 9 Dec 12
Mr Sworld wrote:Hello Jason
Of course you can come with some petty minded reason and lazy arse excuse not to do it.
However it would just make you a coward.
Chicken...
;-)
Going well isn't it?
Somethingsarejustwrong
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8:37am Sun 9 Dec 12
Morpheus
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10:27am Sun 9 Dec 12
Algeria Touchshriek
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12:01pm Sun 9 Dec 12
Stop wasting money on Gender Descriptions, Pink Bikes, Homeless scum and Squatting criminals and we the good Non snot Green voting citizens of Brighton may have more cash to spend on things that matter.
HJarrs
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1:03pm Sun 9 Dec 12
Mr Sworld wrote:Mr Sword I think you will find "Dealing with Idiots" is a Tory despite what they post and posting their alligiance would rather ruin the prospect of prominent Tory, Adam Campbell and Dealing and others in their group getting the number of signatures required.
Tell you what 'Dealing'.
If you feel so strongly about the elected councilors why not put your money where your mouth is?
Its your democratic right to run for election. If you are that confident you can persuade the voters of Brighton and Hove to oust the Greens then go for it.
Why not publish your real name now and your affiliations to any political parties?
Go on, if you are that confident that your 'poll' will work you must think there are enought common minded others for you to run for public office.
That said, they should have thousands of signatures by now as the petition has been in the Argus and constantly pushed in these comments forums. Can't even get their ownTory supporters to sign up!
HJarrs
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1:13pm Sun 9 Dec 12
Maxwell's Ghost wrote:Sorry Maxwell, nice try at misrepresentation, poverty is no laughing matter, your posts often are though.
So HJarrs you find the financial state of the city and the poverty local people face amusing?
If you hate Brighton people so much why don't you go back to your home town instead of messing ours up.
You don't want a cycle lane in the Lewes Rd and that is your opinion. However, if we are to encourage more people to cycle (something you seem to be set against despite being a regular cyclist!) then we need the facilities to do so. If nothing else, people are getting poorer generally and will need to keep heathier as we live longer. So lets provide and opportunity for many of our younger people on the Lewes Rd corridor to take up the bike for life. No vanity project here and even the NHS is paying something towards the costs as the health benefits are such a no -brainer. So, who hates the people of B&H? Me? No, I want a good future for people of this city wherever they come from.
Phani Tikkala
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2:14pm Sun 9 Dec 12
HJarrs wrote:It's not just about encouraging people to cycle.... it's also about reducing the amount of cars using Lewes Rd/OSR/etc by 10%+
Maxwell's Ghost wrote:Sorry Maxwell, nice try at misrepresentation, poverty is no laughing matter, your posts often are though.
So HJarrs you find the financial state of the city and the poverty local people face amusing?
If you hate Brighton people so much why don't you go back to your home town instead of messing ours up.
You don't want a cycle lane in the Lewes Rd and that is your opinion. However, if we are to encourage more people to cycle (something you seem to be set against despite being a regular cyclist!) then we need the facilities to do so. If nothing else, people are getting poorer generally and will need to keep heathier as we live longer. So lets provide and opportunity for many of our younger people on the Lewes Rd corridor to take up the bike for life. No vanity project here and even the NHS is paying something towards the costs as the health benefits are such a no -brainer. So, who hates the people of B&H? Me? No, I want a good future for people of this city wherever they come from.
i.e. punish motorists (who outnumber cyclists by a large factor) while pursuing a dodgy ideological fantasy and spending vast amounts of money we haven't got on trying to achieve the impossible
Funny you didn't want to mention that eh?
Plantpot
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5:18pm Sun 9 Dec 12
Maxwell's Ghost
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6:47pm Sun 9 Dec 12
There is already a cycle lane on the Lewes Road.
If you cycled along it every day as I do you would know this. Try it. It's ok.
All the council is doing is laying new Tarmac along the same lane. Take a look. Oh and moving the lane inside the bus lane. It's a very strange design as the lane is no longer straight but undulates and has bends in it. It's weird.
That is an utter disgrace and a waste of money.
On Friday night I was hit by a car parked in the cycle lane at Elm Grove junction as some lazy sod just pulled out after collecting a take out. The green council has done nothing, absolutely nothing to deal with this ongoig issue and never will despite repeated complaints from cyclists.
If the council left the lane from
Coombe road to the unis and spent the money making the elm grove section safer maybe people would cycle but its an absolute death trap. Fines would ten pay for the improvements but no, you just want to waste public money.
But why listen to cyclists because you can't hear us as you just love the sound of your own rhetoric.
And if you watched the fantastic documentary on cycling on tv on Monday you would understand exactly why people don't cycle and why cycle lanes don't protect cyclists.
taman
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4:34pm Wed 12 Dec 12
http://present.brigh
ton-hove.gov.uk/mgEP
etitionDisplay.aspx?
Id=360&$LO$=1
Maxwell's Ghost says...
1:54pm Sat 8 Dec 12
Why should the rest of the UK bail out this city when it's councillors are frittering away money.
I find this astonishing.