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Category Archives: Blog
Readers View – Renovate Hanley instead of ripping it down
Hello Stoke-on-Trent City Council, why not look at ideas like this from Manchester for improving Hanley?
EyeSpy The Future
While idly sitting at my desk and avoiding work EyeSpy came across this new product, just in time for Joy Garner if she gets voted in as Police and Crime Commissioner, but after last Thursdays results EyeSpy isn’t holding his breath. Continue reading
EyeSpy Oh how the mighty are fallen!
David Conway was not the only one with a big smile on his face Friday morning as Labour awoke to the short sharp judgement of the residents of Springfields and Trent Vale. Whilst it might not stop the move, the backlash against the move to the CBD was apparent, which raised the spirits of many council officers on Friday morning. Parking in Stoke may not be perfect, but the thought of a daily game of ‘musical parking spaces’ followed by a forced tutorial on how you should cycle to work rather than moan about paying £25 a year to spend 20 minutes looking for a parking spot before abandoning hope and parking in Tesco, is a step too far for some.
Eye Spy OmniCorp
Well we are in to the final week of campaigning for the much sought after seat of Springfields and Trent Vale, all the main parties have been up here pounding the streets over the past few days. Everything but the kitchen sink & PCC Candidate Joy Garner has been thrown at S&TV by Labour, even Council Leader ‘part time’ Pervez has been leafletting. Continue reading
Excuse me. Are you the Judean People’s Front?
After watching this mornings twitter discussion about this post, 500 words from Matthew Wright Socialist Party candidate for Springfields and Trent Vale, Eye Spy was reminded of this from Monty Python, Continue reading
Red Carpet.. only if the shoe fits
Red carpet treatment for businesses who want to invest in Stoke-on-Trent, but only if the shoe fits.
I say this following the negative comments from the Assistant Director of City Regeneration to City Renewal Overview and Scrutiny Committee 28th June that
the Potteries Shopping Centre did not own the land and therefore the application may not come to fruition.
This is hardly the Red Carpet treatment we are lead to believe the City Council is offering to ALL business’s, wishing to invest in our City. Continue reading
Eye Spy Springfields and Trent Vale
Ever keen to promote democracy, Eye Spy feels it is his duty to bring residents’ attention to the candidates for the upcoming Springfields and Trent Vale byelection, seeing as the Council PR Department haven’t.
Anyone searching for the Statement of Persons Nominated at the end of last week could be forgiven for not finding it, tucked well away from the homepage (alongside the Masterplan for Stoke town centre no doubt…). Continue reading
Spotted! Jack Brereton
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A young Councillor Jack Brereton on BBC Question Time last night.
Joy Garner with Ed Miliband and Yvette Cooper
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Labour candidate for Staffordshire’s Police & Crime Commissioner Joy Garner with Ed & Yvette at the PCC Press Launch yesterday. Picture from Twitter