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Then meet the people who thought running a property development company was just another council hobby Before we go any further, let’s get one thing straight. Shropshire Council is currently exposed to Cornovii to the…
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When Devolution Becomes the Invoice
Homes England, Cornovii and the Grand Tradition of Official Incompetence This article makes no allegation of fraud or corruption. That would require intent. What follows is about something far more pervasive and far more embarrassing:…
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Abolish Shropshire Council
It Didn’t Fail. It Worked — Just Not for You Shropshire Council was sold as progress in 2009 One council.One vision.One streamlined authority delivering better services for less money. What we got instead was something…
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Cowards of the County: Snouts in the Trough
Austerity for residents. Certainty for councillors That is not a talking point — it is the evidence. What follows names those who are paid, recalls the precedent they have chosen to ignore, and records the…
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Cowards of the County: Planning by Fear, Silence by Design
This Is What Cowardice Looks Like There is a new planning doctrine stalking Shropshire. It is not written down. It has not been voted on. It comes with no consultation, no mandate, and no courage.…
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Cowards of the County: They Broke It, You’re Paying
Localism, Lies – and the Great Parish Bill Shropshire Council has perfected a simple, cowardly trick: when something costs money, it stops paying for it and pushes the bill onto someone smaller. Then it smiles,…
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COWARDS OF THE COUNTY
How Shropshire’s Officers Lost the Plot, the Councillors Lost Their Nerve, and the Taxpayer Lost Everything Else There comes a point in every county’s slow slide into farce when you realise the people running the…
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WHY SCRAPPING THE PCC WON’T SAVE US
There comes a moment in every great British farce when you realise the people in charge are no longer even pretending to steer the ship — they’re simply rearranging the deckchairs and congratulating each other…
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THE INVISIBLE HAND THAT BUILDS SHROPSHIRE (AND IT ISN’T THE COUNCIL)
There’s a strange rumour doing the rounds in Shropshire’s housing circles:“Homes England has taken over Wrekin Housing Group.” Now, this is only partly true — but the truth it reveals is far more interesting than…
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The Roundabout That Wasn’t Round
How Shrewsbury Reinvented the Wheel and Drove It Into a Wall Welcome to Shrewsbury, where we took a perfectly ordinary road junction, spent £4 million making it worse, and called it progress. Behold the Station…
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