I never no where to go for information on the Council First to the Star or The evening news.

 

Star date: 10th November 2009

A Salford Star Exclusive

HEAD OF SALFORD’S SCHOOLS PROGRAMME `RETIRES’! 

In the same week that Salford City Council lost in its bid to close St George’s School in Little Hulton as part of the massive `Building Schools for the Future’ (BSF) project, we can reveal that Stephen Bradbury, the head of the city’s Building Schools for the Future programme has `retired’.

Strange story from the Salford Star.what is going on?leaking e mails?

SALFORD COUNCIL LEADER LEAKS E-MAILS

Star date: 10th November 2009 A Salford Star Exclusive SALFORD COUNCIL LEADER LEAKS CONFIDENTIAL GOVERNMENT E-MAILS TO PRESS John Merry Outraged Over `Outrage’ Outrage… Council Leader demands apology off Salford Star and leaks e-mails to prove his point… Full sorry story here…

Salford Council Leader, John Merry, has demanded an apology off the Salford Star after we accused him of `losing the plot’ over his statements in the aftermath of the St George’s School victory. Mr Merry put the following (unedited) comments on our website… “Its is shabby journalism of the sort you normally accuse others of not to check your facts. You may accuse me of lots of things, you may disagree but to state that I have “lost the plot” is disgraceful without phoneing me to ask me how I came to make such a statement. I would like an apolgy please.” Following the Schools Adjudicator’s report we quoted John Merry saying “I am outraged that his solution is to shut Harrop Fold and give their building to St George’s”. We wrote that the Schools Adjudicator had never said this in his report and therefore that John Merry had `lost the plot’. And we stand by the fact that the report never states this…it merely suggests that an “alternative approach would be the possibility of SG [St George's] being retained and relocated in the adjoining HF premises”. We took this to mean a sharing of the school (see full article here with Mr Merry’s comments underneath) However Mr Merry has now sent us a copy of highly confidential e-mails between Nick Page, Deputy Director of Children’s Services and the Office of the Schools Adjudicator, where Page asks “Is the suggestion from the letter that we would close Harrop Fold high school and move St George’s high school into Harrop Fold’s premises as a Catholic VA school?” and the reply is “Yes”. Please note that this is a “suggestion”, a “possibility” and not, as Mr Merry states, a “solution”. The Schools Adjudicator doesn’t have the power to impose `solutions’. To keep Mr Merry CBE sweet he can have his `apolgy’ but not having access to the Council’s `confidential’ e-mails means that we can only go on what we read that is in the public domain…and, to us, the Adjudicator’s report still doesn’t say that he’s suggesting shutting Harrop Fold and moving in St George’s – his e-mails might but his report doesn’t. In any case, Page has written to all Salford’s Head Teachers that “The Council has confirmed that under no circumstances would this option be considered”…or is that confidential? PS:  When we said that John Merry had “lost the plot” we think he might have misinterpreted what we meant – we obviously meant that he had lost the plot of land on which St George’s School stands…that the Council had already suggested as a future development site for 85 houses.

God Just had the Membership list off our Data Officer Steve Middleton. And Guess what.

It’s getting Bigger.

Labour accuses ‘Sun’ of exploiting war letter errors

ANDREW SPARROW and ADAM GABBATT

LABOUR ACCUSED the Sun newspaper yesterday of exploiting the grief of a mother whose son had been killed in Afghanistan in its reporting of her anger over a letter of condolence the prime minister sent in which he misspelt the soldier’s name.

Jacqui Janes, the mother of grenadier guardsman Jamie Janes, who was killed on October 5th, received the letter days after her son’s death. But, according to the Sun , Mrs Janes had read only the first few lines before she “threw it across the room in disgust”.

Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, said that although Gordon Brown’s handwriting was “not great”, people should understand that the row was being orchestrated by a paper that was actively campaigning against Labour.

Almost half of UK workers say they have left a job because of bad management. And i thought it was because the country is in a mess.

Forty-nine per cent say that under less drastic circumstances, they would rather take a pay cut than work for someone who made bad decisions.

The findings come in a survey from the Chartered Institute of Management, which says it is launching a campaign to improve standards among bosses.

It wants the government to make developing effective managers a national priority.

Affordable home starts to drop by third

We have no Affordable Homes. If i wish to put up houses then i should out up a percentage of affordable housing.

 

The reality is if a say a cannot afford to put up affordable houses in the scheme it still goes ahead. This is totally unacceptable.

A quick reflection on the past.

Ther was nothing great about Thatcher and the continued adulation she gets amazes me. She brought the Chicago School “Friedmanite” policies to this country. The policies that devastated Chile and Argentina et al and put us in the mess we are in now. No subsequent PM has had the guts to change it,. While the States has seen the light and elected a pro active president who is going ahead and changing direction, we will probably elect a reactionary bunch of conservatives who will try to turn back the clock. History will show that the mess we are in started with her, she was a disaster.

Hope Richard Carvath PPC, is ok about me borrowing these excellent pictures he as taken on his blog.

Patriot Act i wonder what Brown or the Tories will call their version /any comments.

The USA PATRIOT Act, commonly known as the Patriot Act, is a controversial Act of Congress that U.S. President George W. Bush signed into law on October 26, 2001. The contrived acronym stands for “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001″

The act expands the authority of U.S. law enforcement agencies for the stated purpose of fighting terrorism in the United States and abroad. Among its provisions, the Act increases the ability of law enforcement agencies to search telephone, e-mail communications, medical, financial and other records; eases restrictions on foreign intelligence gathering within the United States; expands the Secretary of the Treasury’s authority to regulate financial transactions, particularly those involving foreign individuals and entities; and enhances the discretion of law enforcement and immigration authorities in detaining and deporting immigrants suspected of terrorism-related acts. The act also expands the definition of terrorism to include domestic terrorism, thus enlarging the number of activities to which the USA Patriot Act’s expanded law enforcement powers can be applied

This is part of an Email from H–AL

Thank you for your email.

I have been familiarising myself with the area as it will form part of the new Salford & Eccles Constituency should I be re-elected.

1. Question as it relates to Swinton South

Familiarising myself the area, strange if i was One of the MPs in Salford i would hope i had a good idea where Swinton South was,
Should i be Re-elected? Not very confident if that was me i would be a little more positive.

And seeing she has been Familliarising herself in Weaste and seedley and Clairmont,all Liberal Democrat Wards,? is she saying she never goes there? i hope she as not been taking the voters for granted? No.