Archive for sheffield council
How to get the job of issuing a press release calling on yourself to change your own decision
Never let it be said that the worlds of politics and media are overly self-referential… but Joe Otten has spotted the wonderful story of the Labour press officer with the job of issuing a press release calling on himself to change a decision that he had made.
Simon Hughes challenges Harriet Harman over Labour’s record in Sheffield
From a party news release: Liberal Democrat Deputy Leader, Simon Hughes, joined Liberal Democrat councillors in Sheffield to highlight more than £4m of wasteful spending by Labour locally. The figures were revealed while Labour Deputy Leader, Harriet Harman, visited the city, attempting to defend Labour’s waste on Sheffield City Council. Local Liberal Democrat councillors are campaigning [...]
Sheffield Labour drops Lib Dem policy of extra pay for the lowest paid
The Sheffield Star reports: SHEFFIELD’S ruling Labour councillors have been attacked by Nick Clegg for ‘dropping’ a policy to give the authority’s lowest-paid staff an extra £250 each year. The payment was made for staff paid below £21,000-a-year, under the old Lib Dem administration’s budget for 2011/12 – and Mr Clegg said it was supposed [...]
