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	<title>Phil Taylor</title>
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	<description>Ealing councillor sounds off</description>
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		<title>The BBC and the cuts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today the BBC has a piece about how the forthcoming spending review will affect London&#8217;s councils.  They say:
London councils &#8216;planning for £5bn cuts by 2014&#8242;
Councils in London on average are preparing cut their budget by 24% over three years, BBC London has learned.  The 32 local authorities currently spend a total of £22bn [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://philtaylor.org.uk/?p=3682</link>
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		<title>Ealing and the cuts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our own council has already been very clear about their views of how the spending review will affect Ealing.  The Council announced that Ealing would face having to make &#8220;savings&#8221; of £53 million at its cabinet meeting on 22nd June.  This is a target that seeks to reduce by 25% the amount of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://philtaylor.org.uk/?p=3675</link>
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		<title>Good news &#8211; sort of</title>
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Cllr Bell has been driving around the borough getting his picture taken again.  This time at Gurnell swimming pool where the new Labour administration plan to put the skate park.  Someone needs to tell Cllr Bell that beyond the age of 30 you don’t want to get photographed from below.  Even some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://philtaylor.org.uk/?p=3671</link>
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		<title>Why the Tube unions are barking</title>
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Unusually for me I went into town today and was not greatly inconvenienced by the Tube strike unless you count having to spend £27 on cabs to get me from Paddington to Westminster and back.  Today&#8217;s headline in the Standard is &#8220;Defiant commuters beat the Tube strike to get to work&#8221;.  I saw [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://philtaylor.org.uk/?p=3663</link>
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		<title>Tube unions at it again</title>
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As of 11:10pm this evening 7 out of 11 Tube lines were out of service as the latest Tube strike starts to bite.  Although this is a joint venture between the RMT and the TSSA unions it is RMT’s nasty and aggressive general secretary Bob Crowe who stands out.  
Only in August of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://philtaylor.org.uk/?p=3654</link>
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		<title>A saving for Cllr Bell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Telegraph today picked up the TaxPayers’ Alliance story about the unions receiving £85.8 million per annum from the state.  Much  of this, some £67.5 million, is “facility time” whereby union reps in government employment still get paid when they are on union business.  
In their report the TPA were told by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://philtaylor.org.uk/?p=3652</link>
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		<title>A trained economist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ealing Council Leader Julian Bell is often ridiculed by the Conservative group on the council because he once claimed to be a trained economist.  
For myself I am not a trained economist, unless you count a grade C O-level taken in the seventies.  I can read though and I have a good memory [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://philtaylor.org.uk/?p=3587</link>
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		<title>First get your terms right</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a couple of introductory paragraphs Cllr Bell says:
Firstly let me say that this was just the first of many very difficult decisions that we as a Labour Council will have to make in the next four years. They are decisions that we would prefer we did not have to make but we are being [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://philtaylor.org.uk/?p=3614</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t mention the war</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cllr Bell then reaches for his tin helmet and starts making references to the Second World War:
Incidentally by comparison the national debt after the Second World War was a much higher percentage of GDP than we have now and it took until 2003 to pay it off. Did the 1945 Labour government start slashing public [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://philtaylor.org.uk/?p=3641</link>
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		<title>The trained economist on the council&#8217;s own figures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the next two paragraphs Cllr Bell talks about Ealing’s funding from central government.  
Cllr Stacey during his four year tenure as Leader of the Council was in the happy position of receiving generous levels of funding from the Labour government and so did not have to face the unprecedented cuts to the Council’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://philtaylor.org.uk/?p=3689</link>
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