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Mapledown: victory for the parents - and a new low for Barnet Tories
Mapledown SchoolTo say that the Barnet Tories are in a state of pre-election panic would be grossly unfair. They are now in a state of total meltdown. The evidence for this is, as always, measurable by...
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May 2014: Barnet decides - but will your voice be heard?
The right to to vote is something we take for granted, isn't it? And yet it is less than a hundred years since women won that right, and working men were excluded from the democratic process for almost...
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Understanding the landscape - or: One Barnet, and gambling that disaster's...
After the Audit meeting, the retiring chair, Lord Palmer, was invited to the bloggers' retreat, the Greyhound pub, round the corner from the Town Hall - and adjacent to the Church Farmhouse, our former...
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In Memoriam - at a price: welcome to Easycrem ... Capita's money making plans...
Gone and now to be forgotten - memorial benches at Hendon Crematorium, dumped by CapitaFar from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool...
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A great big mess: Tory run Capitaville, two weeks before the election
So: about the election campaign, Councillor Cornelius? All going to plan?Has your pre-election handout of 23 pence a week for every taxpayer in Broken Barnet done the trick? Are grateful residents...
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Mr Postman, look and see - if there's a polling card in your bag for me, or -...
Mrs Angry brought to your attention, not so long ago, some very worrying evidence that suggested problems and delays in the processing of electoral registration, and further difficulties posed by the...
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Things can only get ... worse: Barnet bloggers' joint letter to the local...
Open up this week's local Times' letter page and you will find a joint letter from the Barnet bloggers, ie Mr Mustard, Mr Reasonable, Mr Tichborne, and Mrs Angry, vaguely on the theme of impending...
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One Barnet: 'a brand that has served its purpose' - let's take back control...
Over the last few years, the activities of the current Conservative administration in Barnet have been closely monitored and reported by a group of bloggers, determined to hold to account the elected...
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Church Farmhouse: closed by Tory councillors, ransacked, left to rot - now...
Updated below: Barnet Council shuts the gate, after the horse has bolted ...Apart from the election, Mrs Angry, is there anything much going on in Broken Barnet, this week? Well, yes: Finchley Literary...
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The Lost Highway, or: the road to Broken Barnet, May 2014
Now, boys, don't start your ramblin' round On this road of sin or you're sorrow bound...
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We are disappointed, or: Barnet decides - the day of reckoning
Allianz Park stadium and sports centre sits in a semi-rural setting, in the middle of Copthall playing fields, in Mill Hill, surrounded by fields, and old hedgerows, miles from anywhere, inaccessible...
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Broken Barnet, May 2014: the morning after the night before
It is now a week since the local elections, and all parties in Barnet are now beginning to adjust to the new reality of political life in this borough. Or not.In the last few days we have seen the...
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Broken Barnet: the annual meeting, and a new term begins, as care workers...
Tonight sees the annual meeting of Barnet Council, the very first, of course, since the election, and one which marks the beginning of a new administration, but which will largely consist of the...
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The greatest good, or - Pomp and Pomposity: a mayor-making in Broken Barnet
Mrs Angry toyed with the idea of not attending last night's annual meeting of Barnet Council, for several reasons. Deep frustration at the 'business as usual' attitude of the Labour leadership,...
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Highways of Despair: Labour report Barnet Tory Highways allegedly...
What is a realization of the notion of knowledge means for it rather the ruin and overthrow of itself; for on this road it loses its own truth. Because of that, the road can be looked on as the path of...
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Saving time and trouble: new Tory Mayor's activities as landlord criticised...
*Updated: see below for footage of Mayor's Question Time: Boris happy to support Rayner's tenant ...Last week, here in Broken Barnet, saw the annual meeting of the council, the first meeting of the new...
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When will everything be hunky dory? Contract monitoring and performance, in...
Awfully confusing, this new committee system, isn't it?Mrs Angry went to the Town Hall last night to attend what she had thought was to be the new Performance and Monitoring Management Committee. She...
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Hugh Rayner: the Mayor's nightmare continues, as Dismore submits complaint to...
The story regarding new Mayor of Barnet Hugh Rayner and his business interests has taken on a new level of gravity today, after news broke that Assembly Member Andrew Dismore has now submitted a 19...
View ArticleA clear understanding, or: Barnet is still Broken
At last week's contract and performance meeting, the first of its kind in the new administration, our friends from Crapita were called to the table to explain why certain problems were...
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Taking a haircut, in the market place of care: another Residents Forum in...
The story of our local residents' forums, here in Broken Barnet, is in essence the story of something else, something rather bigger: it is the perfect demonstration of why Barnet is broken, and will...
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