Given the high probability that David Cameron is heading for Downing Street, Tories in Birmingham are beginning to give serious consideration to the Conservative leader’s pledge to hold mayoral referendums in major English cities.
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Wise advice about holes and stopping digging when you fall into them sprang to mind when watching a stuttering performance by Ladywood Labour councillor Carl Rice.
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Allies of Mike Whitby gave serious consideration to publishing the result of the recent election, which saw the Birmingham City Council leader see off a challenge from Tory Randal Brew.
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There is much work of great worth being done to tackle the menace of gangs, gun crime and violence in Birmingham - not least by a council scrutiny committee commissioned to do just that.
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Birmingham’s continuing failure to generate much in the way of a positive image in the national and international media – sorry, make that a failure to generate any image – has prompted city council leader Mike Whitby to take control.
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Rebellious right-wingers on Birmingham City Council are becoming increasingly concerned about what they regard as the local authority’s lurch toward municipal socialism.
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If a way could be found to convert hand-wringing into useable energy, there would have been enough electricity generated at a meeting of Birmingham’s Reducing Gang Violence Scrutiny Committee to keep the Council House floodlit for a month.
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