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Cllr Steve Day considers the potential conflict of vehicles and pedestrians at a re-aligned campus exit road.

More Houses Less Parking

Queen Mary's College has applied for permission to build 13 new homes with a loss of 43 student parking spaces in front

13 May 2010
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Cllr John Shaw

Enough to Fill the Albert Hall - Twice over!

In a recently published article in the Basingstoke Gazette our borough group leader Councillor John Shaw, and our team counted the potholes in their wards. They then multiplied the average by the number of wards and worked out that there could be about 8,000 potholes in Basingstoke.

13 May 2010
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2025 Local Elections

Recent local election results should come as no surprise. Most citizens would tell you that “Britain is not working” and it certainly is not working for them as they struggle with the cost of living crisis and failing services.

Recent local election results should come as no surprise. Most citizens would tell you that “Britain is not working” and it certainly is not working for them as they struggle with the cost of living crisis and failing services. Amidst the uncertainty caused by the incompetence of our two major political parties, long the pillars of our political establishment, as citizens we have lost hope in a better tomorrow. 

Whilst Conservative mismanagement of the economy and its destruction of services did us all no favours, Labour has failed to fulfil its election promises. Badly. From winter fuel payments to job taxes and destroying family farms through ill judge inheritance tax changes, we have seen it all.

Furthermore, we have recently suffered from a stitch up in the cancellation of the elections in Hampshire. This was proposed by the Conservative County Council and adopted with speed by the Labour government. All in the interests of efficiency as we move to Local Government Reorganisation. This has led to a major democratic deficit, and we have a Conservative administration which in all probability would have been voted out of office. If you run a business £200,000,000 in the red and not delivering on its contracts, then you would go to the wall. In the case of Hampshire County Council, it is clear that turkeys do not vote for Christmas.

This also raises problems for Local Government Reorganisation where the primary local driver, Hampshire, has no democratic mandate. It also appears to be driven by narrow self-interest rather than the public interest which we deserve. How do we move forward? Rather than adopting a justified “plague on all your houses”, voters should look at the values and competence of the candidates and parties. Clearly Labour and the Conservatives are not the answer.

Councillor Luigi Gregori

Lib Dem Parliamentary Spokesperson NW Hants

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