An interesting account of Jules Pipe, the Labour Elected Mayor of Hackney, the authority where I am a councillor, taking on Eric Pickles at the London Councils' Summit:
http://www.lgcplus.com/news/people/eric-pickles/pickles-revels-in-mutual-contempt/5021538.blog
Interesting? More like extremely biased.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing this.
ReplyDeleteI'm of the opinion that for political reasons Labour need to make the position of a Tory cabinet minister untenable, whether by uncovering evidence of malfeasance, exposing incompetence or just amplifying a press backlash such that Cameron decides to ask them to resign.
And for policy reasons, the natural target for that ought to be Pickles, because he's on a crusade to chuck the vulnerable out of the lifeboat. No other minister could do as much damage as Pickles seems rabidly eager to do.