Free booze in pubs and clubs for all for a week in August should solve the problem.
Incels won't be going. They will be sitting in their underpants in their bedroom complaining online that women don't deserve them.
The growing number of incels is a very serious problem IMO.
In my opinion, they need to get offline, have a shower, dress and groom themselves properly, then treat women with respect, and to be a good listener. It is a simple formula that works.
That isn't the problem IMO. The problem is women have been told they should only accept their perfect idea of a male partner, or something very close to it.
He's old, introverted and sheltered, he has no conception
Free booze in pubs and clubs for all for a week in August should solve the problem.
Incels won't be going. They will be sitting in their underpants in their bedroom complaining online that women don't deserve them.
The growing number of incels is a very serious problem IMO.
Agree. A high proportion of bloke problems are solved by three things: girl, job, getting past the age of 23. Shakespeare said something along those lines.
Free booze in pubs and clubs for all for a week in August should solve the problem.
Incels won't be going. They will be sitting in their underpants in their bedroom complaining online that women don't deserve them.
The growing number of incels is a very serious problem IMO.
In my opinion, they need to get offline, have a shower, dress and groom themselves properly, then treat women with respect, and to be a good listener. It is a simple formula that works.
That isn't the problem IMO. The problem is women have been told they should only accept their perfect idea of a male partner, or something very close to it.
Well they should target perfection. And we should aim to provide that for them.
Free booze in pubs and clubs for all for a week in August should solve the problem.
Incels won't be going. They will be sitting in their underpants in their bedroom complaining online that women don't deserve them.
The growing number of incels is a very serious problem IMO.
In my opinion, they need to get offline, have a shower, dress and groom themselves properly, then treat women with respect, and to be a good listener. It is a simple formula that works.
That isn't the problem IMO. The problem is women have been told they should only accept their perfect idea of a male partner, or something very close to it.
Free booze in pubs and clubs for all for a week in August should solve the problem.
Incels won't be going. They will be sitting in their underpants in their bedroom complaining online that women don't deserve them.
The growing number of incels is a very serious problem IMO.
In my opinion, they need to get offline, have a shower, dress and groom themselves properly, then treat women with respect, and to be a good listener. It is a simple formula that works.
That isn't the problem IMO. The problem is women have been told they should only accept their perfect idea of a male partner, or something very close to it.
In that case men need to make an effort.
You might as well say to short guy "be taller"
You do not understand what you are talking about, not remotely. It is a tiny bit embarrassing
The Government is poised to take over the running of the city of Liverpool this week after a string of corruption allegations, The Telegraph can disclose.
The expected decision by the Local Government secretary Robert Jenrick to intervene in the running of one of the UK's biggest cities is unprecedented in modern times.
Commissioners could be sent in to run the day-to-day operations of the council for several years, something which has only happened three times in the past 25 years.
Commissioners were sent in by the Government to take over the running of councils in Northampton in 2018, Rotherham in 2015 and Towers Hamlets in 2014. None of them was the scale of a city like Liverpool, however.
Max Caller, a respected local government inspector who was the commissioner in Tower Hamlets, was appointed by Mr Jenrick to lead the investigation into Liverpool last December.
Mr Caller focused his investigation on property management, regeneration, highways, contracts and planning at the council over the past five years.
The Telegraph understands that Mr Jenrick has now received the final report and recommendations from Mr Caller.
He will make a final decision on what action to take this week before the formal purdah period begins ahead of the local government elections. It is likely that Mr Jenrick will order commissioners into Liverpool.
Mr Caller has already briefed local MPs in the area about the findings which will be published this week. His report is understood to contain a “damning indictment of the council”.
Councillors will still be elected in Liverpool but could cede executive powers to the commissioners for as long as they are appointed.
The city's accounts have not been signed off by auditors for the past five years because of the continuing police inquiry into "financial irregularities".
Well done France. Attempting to play expansive football at all times means they don't look like headless chickens when they need a quick score. Literally millimetres away from a Grand Slam game against Scotland. DuPont is the best player in Europe by a country mile. Everything goes through him. Quick, decisive, and, crucially, almost always the correct decision.
The Government is poised to take over the running of the city of Liverpool this week after a string of corruption allegations, The Telegraph can disclose.
The expected decision by the Local Government secretary Robert Jenrick to intervene in the running of one of the UK's biggest cities is unprecedented in modern times.
Commissioners could be sent in to run the day-to-day operations of the council for several years, something which has only happened three times in the past 25 years.
Commissioners were sent in by the Government to take over the running of councils in Northampton in 2018, Rotherham in 2015 and Towers Hamlets in 2014. None of them was the scale of a city like Liverpool, however.
Max Caller, a respected local government inspector who was the commissioner in Tower Hamlets, was appointed by Mr Jenrick to lead the investigation into Liverpool last December.
Mr Caller focused his investigation on property management, regeneration, highways, contracts and planning at the council over the past five years.
The Telegraph understands that Mr Jenrick has now received the final report and recommendations from Mr Caller.
He will make a final decision on what action to take this week before the formal purdah period begins ahead of the local government elections. It is likely that Mr Jenrick will order commissioners into Liverpool.
Mr Caller has already briefed local MPs in the area about the findings which will be published this week. His report is understood to contain a “damning indictment of the council”.
Councillors will still be elected in Liverpool but could cede executive powers to the commissioners for as long as they are appointed.
The city's accounts have not been signed off by auditors for the past five years because of the continuing police inquiry into "financial irregularities".
Rugby, at its worst, can be the most boring major team sport on the globe. At its best - like that - it ceaselessly exciting and endlessly absorbing and dashed with real beauty.
I am a Tory, I never saw the need to change the Lords as it was in 1999 and I certainly do not seek to change it now, the remaining hereditaries have had a stake in our nation for hundreds of years, they should stay
A good point, young HY. And 400 years ago your ancestors were downtrodden peasants, living short and brutish lives. So if you follow your own logic.......
Not all of them actually, on my mother's side some of them had estates in Ireland and or were tradesmen and on my father's mother's side some were bankers with an estate in Dorset
This week I haves been mostly eating...BOURBON BISCUITS
I only eat biscuits named for historical figures, so Bourbons and Garibaldis are basically it.
Nice
So many people forget Sir Alexander Tollemache Carlyon de Chocolate-Hobnob, Admiral of the Blue and renegade leader of the Patagonian Revolutionary War in 1822
You unaccountably forgot the abolitionist baronet, Sir Christopher Kat.
Charles James Fox also possessed biscuits, reputedly.
So TSE had the French to thank for his day not being completely miserable.
Although if I read the table aright Wales should still take the trophy unless France beat Scotland by something crazy like 25 points.
If the French get the bonus point against Scotland then France and Wales finish on equal points in the table. That being the case, isn't the title decided in the first instance on the head-to-head rather than points difference? That's what seems to have been implied by the commentators.
The Government is poised to take over the running of the city of Liverpool this week after a string of corruption allegations, The Telegraph can disclose.
The expected decision by the Local Government secretary Robert Jenrick to intervene in the running of one of the UK's biggest cities is unprecedented in modern times.
Commissioners could be sent in to run the day-to-day operations of the council for several years, something which has only happened three times in the past 25 years.
Commissioners were sent in by the Government to take over the running of councils in Northampton in 2018, Rotherham in 2015 and Towers Hamlets in 2014. None of them was the scale of a city like Liverpool, however.
Max Caller, a respected local government inspector who was the commissioner in Tower Hamlets, was appointed by Mr Jenrick to lead the investigation into Liverpool last December.
Mr Caller focused his investigation on property management, regeneration, highways, contracts and planning at the council over the past five years.
The Telegraph understands that Mr Jenrick has now received the final report and recommendations from Mr Caller.
He will make a final decision on what action to take this week before the formal purdah period begins ahead of the local government elections. It is likely that Mr Jenrick will order commissioners into Liverpool.
Mr Caller has already briefed local MPs in the area about the findings which will be published this week. His report is understood to contain a “damning indictment of the council”.
Councillors will still be elected in Liverpool but could cede executive powers to the commissioners for as long as they are appointed.
The city's accounts have not been signed off by auditors for the past five years because of the continuing police inquiry into "financial irregularities".
The Government is poised to take over the running of the city of Liverpool this week after a string of corruption allegations, The Telegraph can disclose.
The expected decision by the Local Government secretary Robert Jenrick to intervene in the running of one of the UK's biggest cities is unprecedented in modern times.
Commissioners could be sent in to run the day-to-day operations of the council for several years, something which has only happened three times in the past 25 years.
Commissioners were sent in by the Government to take over the running of councils in Northampton in 2018, Rotherham in 2015 and Towers Hamlets in 2014. None of them was the scale of a city like Liverpool, however.
Max Caller, a respected local government inspector who was the commissioner in Tower Hamlets, was appointed by Mr Jenrick to lead the investigation into Liverpool last December.
Mr Caller focused his investigation on property management, regeneration, highways, contracts and planning at the council over the past five years.
The Telegraph understands that Mr Jenrick has now received the final report and recommendations from Mr Caller.
He will make a final decision on what action to take this week before the formal purdah period begins ahead of the local government elections. It is likely that Mr Jenrick will order commissioners into Liverpool.
Mr Caller has already briefed local MPs in the area about the findings which will be published this week. His report is understood to contain a “damning indictment of the council”.
Councillors will still be elected in Liverpool but could cede executive powers to the commissioners for as long as they are appointed.
The city's accounts have not been signed off by auditors for the past five years because of the continuing police inquiry into "financial irregularities".
I like how it opens with 'unprecedented in modern times', then immediately undermines that by saying it has happened 3 times in the last 25 years, which is very rare, but not unprecedented.
And what about Anglesey?
The interesting thing as well is such crappy governance is not an automatic result of dominance by a party, as there are plenty of councils well run despite that.
The Government is poised to take over the running of the city of Liverpool this week after a string of corruption allegations, The Telegraph can disclose.
The expected decision by the Local Government secretary Robert Jenrick to intervene in the running of one of the UK's biggest cities is unprecedented in modern times.
Commissioners could be sent in to run the day-to-day operations of the council for several years, something which has only happened three times in the past 25 years.
Commissioners were sent in by the Government to take over the running of councils in Northampton in 2018, Rotherham in 2015 and Towers Hamlets in 2014. None of them was the scale of a city like Liverpool, however.
Max Caller, a respected local government inspector who was the commissioner in Tower Hamlets, was appointed by Mr Jenrick to lead the investigation into Liverpool last December.
Mr Caller focused his investigation on property management, regeneration, highways, contracts and planning at the council over the past five years.
The Telegraph understands that Mr Jenrick has now received the final report and recommendations from Mr Caller.
He will make a final decision on what action to take this week before the formal purdah period begins ahead of the local government elections. It is likely that Mr Jenrick will order commissioners into Liverpool.
Mr Caller has already briefed local MPs in the area about the findings which will be published this week. His report is understood to contain a “damning indictment of the council”.
Councillors will still be elected in Liverpool but could cede executive powers to the commissioners for as long as they are appointed.
The city's accounts have not been signed off by auditors for the past five years because of the continuing police inquiry into "financial irregularities".
Husband tells me that failure to get accounts signed off is a very serious matter. If the auditors have failed to do it for five years straight then I'm somewhat surprised that measures haven't been taken in Liverpool before now.
So TSE had the French to thank for his day not being completely miserable.
Although if I read the table aright Wales should still take the trophy unless France beat Scotland by something crazy like 25 points.
If the French get the bonus point against Scotland then France and Wales finish on equal points in the table. That being the case, isn't the title decided in the first instance on the head-to-head rather than points difference? That's what seems to have been implied by the commentators.
Nah. Points difference then tries scored. So a 21 points win with four tries scored. We ought to see France REALLY chuck the ball around.
Rugby, at its worst, can be the most boring major team sport on the globe. At its best - like that - it ceaselessly exciting and endlessly absorbing and dashed with real beauty.
I think that is a good point. I've often considered that a bad Football game is usually better than a bad Rugby game, but a good Rugby game is better than a good Football game.
A bad Test match is worse than both, but a great one cannot be beat due to 5 days of build up and anticipation.
So TSE had the French to thank for his day not being completely miserable.
Although if I read the table aright Wales should still take the trophy unless France beat Scotland by something crazy like 25 points.
If the French get the bonus point against Scotland then France and Wales finish on equal points in the table. That being the case, isn't the title decided in the first instance on the head-to-head rather than points difference? That's what seems to have been implied by the commentators.
The Government is poised to take over the running of the city of Liverpool this week after a string of corruption allegations, The Telegraph can disclose.
The expected decision by the Local Government secretary Robert Jenrick to intervene in the running of one of the UK's biggest cities is unprecedented in modern times.
Commissioners could be sent in to run the day-to-day operations of the council for several years, something which has only happened three times in the past 25 years.
Commissioners were sent in by the Government to take over the running of councils in Northampton in 2018, Rotherham in 2015 and Towers Hamlets in 2014. None of them was the scale of a city like Liverpool, however.
Max Caller, a respected local government inspector who was the commissioner in Tower Hamlets, was appointed by Mr Jenrick to lead the investigation into Liverpool last December.
Mr Caller focused his investigation on property management, regeneration, highways, contracts and planning at the council over the past five years.
The Telegraph understands that Mr Jenrick has now received the final report and recommendations from Mr Caller.
He will make a final decision on what action to take this week before the formal purdah period begins ahead of the local government elections. It is likely that Mr Jenrick will order commissioners into Liverpool.
Mr Caller has already briefed local MPs in the area about the findings which will be published this week. His report is understood to contain a “damning indictment of the council”.
Councillors will still be elected in Liverpool but could cede executive powers to the commissioners for as long as they are appointed.
The city's accounts have not been signed off by auditors for the past five years because of the continuing police inquiry into "financial irregularities".
Presumably not done because the metro mayors are neither elected to take over the running of local authorities nor resourced to do so? I'm assuming that the process for central government to supplant the executive functions of councils is also defined in law.
That would have massive implications for EU level policy too. You have to assume a Green led Gvt would side with a lot of Mediterranean countries on protectionist measures and tightening up the financial markets in the EU.
The Government is poised to take over the running of the city of Liverpool this week after a string of corruption allegations, The Telegraph can disclose.
The expected decision by the Local Government secretary Robert Jenrick to intervene in the running of one of the UK's biggest cities is unprecedented in modern times.
Commissioners could be sent in to run the day-to-day operations of the council for several years, something which has only happened three times in the past 25 years.
Commissioners were sent in by the Government to take over the running of councils in Northampton in 2018, Rotherham in 2015 and Towers Hamlets in 2014. None of them was the scale of a city like Liverpool, however.
Max Caller, a respected local government inspector who was the commissioner in Tower Hamlets, was appointed by Mr Jenrick to lead the investigation into Liverpool last December.
Mr Caller focused his investigation on property management, regeneration, highways, contracts and planning at the council over the past five years.
The Telegraph understands that Mr Jenrick has now received the final report and recommendations from Mr Caller.
He will make a final decision on what action to take this week before the formal purdah period begins ahead of the local government elections. It is likely that Mr Jenrick will order commissioners into Liverpool.
Mr Caller has already briefed local MPs in the area about the findings which will be published this week. His report is understood to contain a “damning indictment of the council”.
Councillors will still be elected in Liverpool but could cede executive powers to the commissioners for as long as they are appointed.
The city's accounts have not been signed off by auditors for the past five years because of the continuing police inquiry into "financial irregularities".
Husband tells me that failure to get accounts signed off is a very serious matter. If the auditors have failed to do it for five years straight then I'm somewhat surprised that measures haven't been taken in Liverpool before now.
Manchester City Council will be feeling pretty smug right about now.
Maybe the Liberal (not Liberal Democrats) Party can build on their strength in Liverpool from this
The Government is poised to take over the running of the city of Liverpool this week after a string of corruption allegations, The Telegraph can disclose.
The expected decision by the Local Government secretary Robert Jenrick to intervene in the running of one of the UK's biggest cities is unprecedented in modern times.
Commissioners could be sent in to run the day-to-day operations of the council for several years, something which has only happened three times in the past 25 years.
Commissioners were sent in by the Government to take over the running of councils in Northampton in 2018, Rotherham in 2015 and Towers Hamlets in 2014. None of them was the scale of a city like Liverpool, however.
Max Caller, a respected local government inspector who was the commissioner in Tower Hamlets, was appointed by Mr Jenrick to lead the investigation into Liverpool last December.
Mr Caller focused his investigation on property management, regeneration, highways, contracts and planning at the council over the past five years.
The Telegraph understands that Mr Jenrick has now received the final report and recommendations from Mr Caller.
He will make a final decision on what action to take this week before the formal purdah period begins ahead of the local government elections. It is likely that Mr Jenrick will order commissioners into Liverpool.
Mr Caller has already briefed local MPs in the area about the findings which will be published this week. His report is understood to contain a “damning indictment of the council”.
Councillors will still be elected in Liverpool but could cede executive powers to the commissioners for as long as they are appointed.
The city's accounts have not been signed off by auditors for the past five years because of the continuing police inquiry into "financial irregularities".
Presumably not done because the metro mayors are neither elected to take over the running of local authorities nor resourced to do so? I'm assuming that the process for central government to supplant the executive functions of councils is also defined in law.
Well, at the moment the Metro Mayor situation in Liverpool is more than a bit complicated in itself.
This week I haves been mostly eating...BOURBON BISCUITS
I only eat biscuits named for historical figures, so Bourbons and Garibaldis are basically it.
Nice
So many people forget Sir Alexander Tollemache Carlyon de Chocolate-Hobnob, Admiral of the Blue and renegade leader of the Patagonian Revolutionary War in 1822
You unaccountably forgot the abolitionist baronet, Sir Christopher Kat.
Charles James Fox also possessed biscuits, reputedly.
I thought Kit Kats were named after the club in Cabaret.
So TSE had the French to thank for his day not being completely miserable.
Although if I read the table aright Wales should still take the trophy unless France beat Scotland by something crazy like 25 points.
If the French get the bonus point against Scotland then France and Wales finish on equal points in the table. That being the case, isn't the title decided in the first instance on the head-to-head rather than points difference? That's what seems to have been implied by the commentators.
Should be points difference, AIUI.
My bad, you're right. It would therefore appear that France need to put four tries past Scotland and win by a margin of 21 points.
The Government is poised to take over the running of the city of Liverpool this week after a string of corruption allegations, The Telegraph can disclose.
The expected decision by the Local Government secretary Robert Jenrick to intervene in the running of one of the UK's biggest cities is unprecedented in modern times.
Commissioners could be sent in to run the day-to-day operations of the council for several years, something which has only happened three times in the past 25 years.
Commissioners were sent in by the Government to take over the running of councils in Northampton in 2018, Rotherham in 2015 and Towers Hamlets in 2014. None of them was the scale of a city like Liverpool, however.
Max Caller, a respected local government inspector who was the commissioner in Tower Hamlets, was appointed by Mr Jenrick to lead the investigation into Liverpool last December.
Mr Caller focused his investigation on property management, regeneration, highways, contracts and planning at the council over the past five years.
The Telegraph understands that Mr Jenrick has now received the final report and recommendations from Mr Caller.
He will make a final decision on what action to take this week before the formal purdah period begins ahead of the local government elections. It is likely that Mr Jenrick will order commissioners into Liverpool.
Mr Caller has already briefed local MPs in the area about the findings which will be published this week. His report is understood to contain a “damning indictment of the council”.
Councillors will still be elected in Liverpool but could cede executive powers to the commissioners for as long as they are appointed.
The city's accounts have not been signed off by auditors for the past five years because of the continuing police inquiry into "financial irregularities".
Presumably not done because the metro mayors are neither elected to take over the running of local authorities nor resourced to do so? I'm assuming that the process for central government to supplant the executive functions of councils is also defined in law.
Maybe, but it feels like something we should have done to empower the intermediate layers of Gvt (if we’re going to have them). You could send them the specialist DCLG advisers and in any case you’d mostly lean on the existing local officials.
So TSE had the French to thank for his day not being completely miserable.
Although if I read the table aright Wales should still take the trophy unless France beat Scotland by something crazy like 25 points.
If the French get the bonus point against Scotland then France and Wales finish on equal points in the table. That being the case, isn't the title decided in the first instance on the head-to-head rather than points difference? That's what seems to have been implied by the commentators.
Should be points difference, AIUI.
My bad, you're right. It would therefore appear that France need to put four tries past Scotland and win by a margin of 21 points.
Well, if they managed the first against us it shouldn’t be out of the question against Scotland.
But it isn’t exactly a gimme to have a 21 point margin,
The Government is poised to take over the running of the city of Liverpool this week after a string of corruption allegations, The Telegraph can disclose.
The expected decision by the Local Government secretary Robert Jenrick to intervene in the running of one of the UK's biggest cities is unprecedented in modern times.
Commissioners could be sent in to run the day-to-day operations of the council for several years, something which has only happened three times in the past 25 years.
Commissioners were sent in by the Government to take over the running of councils in Northampton in 2018, Rotherham in 2015 and Towers Hamlets in 2014. None of them was the scale of a city like Liverpool, however.
Max Caller, a respected local government inspector who was the commissioner in Tower Hamlets, was appointed by Mr Jenrick to lead the investigation into Liverpool last December.
Mr Caller focused his investigation on property management, regeneration, highways, contracts and planning at the council over the past five years.
The Telegraph understands that Mr Jenrick has now received the final report and recommendations from Mr Caller.
He will make a final decision on what action to take this week before the formal purdah period begins ahead of the local government elections. It is likely that Mr Jenrick will order commissioners into Liverpool.
Mr Caller has already briefed local MPs in the area about the findings which will be published this week. His report is understood to contain a “damning indictment of the council”.
Councillors will still be elected in Liverpool but could cede executive powers to the commissioners for as long as they are appointed.
The city's accounts have not been signed off by auditors for the past five years because of the continuing police inquiry into "financial irregularities".
Husband tells me that failure to get accounts signed off is a very serious matter. If the auditors have failed to do it for five years straight then I'm somewhat surprised that measures haven't been taken in Liverpool before now.
Manchester City Council will be feeling pretty smug right about now.
Maybe the Liberal (not Liberal Democrats) Party can build on their strength in Liverpool from this
On a “the world’s gone to pot since the Welsh wizard left” platform?
The Government is poised to take over the running of the city of Liverpool this week after a string of corruption allegations, The Telegraph can disclose.
The expected decision by the Local Government secretary Robert Jenrick to intervene in the running of one of the UK's biggest cities is unprecedented in modern times.
Commissioners could be sent in to run the day-to-day operations of the council for several years, something which has only happened three times in the past 25 years.
Commissioners were sent in by the Government to take over the running of councils in Northampton in 2018, Rotherham in 2015 and Towers Hamlets in 2014. None of them was the scale of a city like Liverpool, however.
Max Caller, a respected local government inspector who was the commissioner in Tower Hamlets, was appointed by Mr Jenrick to lead the investigation into Liverpool last December.
Mr Caller focused his investigation on property management, regeneration, highways, contracts and planning at the council over the past five years.
The Telegraph understands that Mr Jenrick has now received the final report and recommendations from Mr Caller.
He will make a final decision on what action to take this week before the formal purdah period begins ahead of the local government elections. It is likely that Mr Jenrick will order commissioners into Liverpool.
Mr Caller has already briefed local MPs in the area about the findings which will be published this week. His report is understood to contain a “damning indictment of the council”.
Councillors will still be elected in Liverpool but could cede executive powers to the commissioners for as long as they are appointed.
The city's accounts have not been signed off by auditors for the past five years because of the continuing police inquiry into "financial irregularities".
Husband tells me that failure to get accounts signed off is a very serious matter. If the auditors have failed to do it for five years straight then I'm somewhat surprised that measures haven't been taken in Liverpool before now.
Manchester City Council will be feeling pretty smug right about now.
Maybe the Liberal (not Liberal Democrats) Party can build on their strength in Liverpool from this
The Government is poised to take over the running of the city of Liverpool this week after a string of corruption allegations, The Telegraph can disclose.
The expected decision by the Local Government secretary Robert Jenrick to intervene in the running of one of the UK's biggest cities is unprecedented in modern times.
Commissioners could be sent in to run the day-to-day operations of the council for several years, something which has only happened three times in the past 25 years.
Commissioners were sent in by the Government to take over the running of councils in Northampton in 2018, Rotherham in 2015 and Towers Hamlets in 2014. None of them was the scale of a city like Liverpool, however.
Max Caller, a respected local government inspector who was the commissioner in Tower Hamlets, was appointed by Mr Jenrick to lead the investigation into Liverpool last December.
Mr Caller focused his investigation on property management, regeneration, highways, contracts and planning at the council over the past five years.
The Telegraph understands that Mr Jenrick has now received the final report and recommendations from Mr Caller.
He will make a final decision on what action to take this week before the formal purdah period begins ahead of the local government elections. It is likely that Mr Jenrick will order commissioners into Liverpool.
Mr Caller has already briefed local MPs in the area about the findings which will be published this week. His report is understood to contain a “damning indictment of the council”.
Councillors will still be elected in Liverpool but could cede executive powers to the commissioners for as long as they are appointed.
The city's accounts have not been signed off by auditors for the past five years because of the continuing police inquiry into "financial irregularities".
Presumably not done because the metro mayors are neither elected to take over the running of local authorities nor resourced to do so? I'm assuming that the process for central government to supplant the executive functions of councils is also defined in law.
Well, at the moment the Metro Mayor situation in Liverpool is more than a bit complicated in itself.
I thought all the brouhaha over mayors in Liverpool pertained to the city mayor (who may have been naughty) and not the metro mayor (who AFAIK is not implicated in anything untoward) - unless there are other things going on of which I have yet to read?
The Government is poised to take over the running of the city of Liverpool this week after a string of corruption allegations, The Telegraph can disclose.
The expected decision by the Local Government secretary Robert Jenrick to intervene in the running of one of the UK's biggest cities is unprecedented in modern times.
Commissioners could be sent in to run the day-to-day operations of the council for several years, something which has only happened three times in the past 25 years.
Commissioners were sent in by the Government to take over the running of councils in Northampton in 2018, Rotherham in 2015 and Towers Hamlets in 2014. None of them was the scale of a city like Liverpool, however.
Max Caller, a respected local government inspector who was the commissioner in Tower Hamlets, was appointed by Mr Jenrick to lead the investigation into Liverpool last December.
Mr Caller focused his investigation on property management, regeneration, highways, contracts and planning at the council over the past five years.
The Telegraph understands that Mr Jenrick has now received the final report and recommendations from Mr Caller.
He will make a final decision on what action to take this week before the formal purdah period begins ahead of the local government elections. It is likely that Mr Jenrick will order commissioners into Liverpool.
Mr Caller has already briefed local MPs in the area about the findings which will be published this week. His report is understood to contain a “damning indictment of the council”.
Councillors will still be elected in Liverpool but could cede executive powers to the commissioners for as long as they are appointed.
The city's accounts have not been signed off by auditors for the past five years because of the continuing police inquiry into "financial irregularities".
Husband tells me that failure to get accounts signed off is a very serious matter. If the auditors have failed to do it for five years straight then I'm somewhat surprised that measures haven't been taken in Liverpool before now.
For most of the 2010s Joe Anderson kept on railing about how Tory 'austerity' was forcing him to cut essential services in Liverpool.
Yet Mayor Anderson found the resources to give Everton FC a £250 million loan for their new football stadium.
Would you be shocked to learn that Anderson is a Everton fan?
Re: London mayor race (and extended to elections in general). Is there any rule against a candidate changing their name to “None Oftheabove” and chancing their luck?
If they did they would need a surname that ensured them the bottom slot.
The Government is poised to take over the running of the city of Liverpool this week after a string of corruption allegations, The Telegraph can disclose.
The expected decision by the Local Government secretary Robert Jenrick to intervene in the running of one of the UK's biggest cities is unprecedented in modern times.
Commissioners could be sent in to run the day-to-day operations of the council for several years, something which has only happened three times in the past 25 years.
Commissioners were sent in by the Government to take over the running of councils in Northampton in 2018, Rotherham in 2015 and Towers Hamlets in 2014. None of them was the scale of a city like Liverpool, however.
Max Caller, a respected local government inspector who was the commissioner in Tower Hamlets, was appointed by Mr Jenrick to lead the investigation into Liverpool last December.
Mr Caller focused his investigation on property management, regeneration, highways, contracts and planning at the council over the past five years.
The Telegraph understands that Mr Jenrick has now received the final report and recommendations from Mr Caller.
He will make a final decision on what action to take this week before the formal purdah period begins ahead of the local government elections. It is likely that Mr Jenrick will order commissioners into Liverpool.
Mr Caller has already briefed local MPs in the area about the findings which will be published this week. His report is understood to contain a “damning indictment of the council”.
Councillors will still be elected in Liverpool but could cede executive powers to the commissioners for as long as they are appointed.
The city's accounts have not been signed off by auditors for the past five years because of the continuing police inquiry into "financial irregularities".
Presumably not done because the metro mayors are neither elected to take over the running of local authorities nor resourced to do so? I'm assuming that the process for central government to supplant the executive functions of councils is also defined in law.
Well, at the moment the Metro Mayor situation in Liverpool is more than a bit complicated in itself.
I thought all the brouhaha over mayors in Liverpool pertained to the city mayor (who may have been naughty) and not the metro mayor (who AFAIK is not implicated in anything untoward) - unless there are other things going on of which I have yet to read?
The Government is poised to take over the running of the city of Liverpool this week after a string of corruption allegations, The Telegraph can disclose.
The expected decision by the Local Government secretary Robert Jenrick to intervene in the running of one of the UK's biggest cities is unprecedented in modern times.
Commissioners could be sent in to run the day-to-day operations of the council for several years, something which has only happened three times in the past 25 years.
Commissioners were sent in by the Government to take over the running of councils in Northampton in 2018, Rotherham in 2015 and Towers Hamlets in 2014. None of them was the scale of a city like Liverpool, however.
Max Caller, a respected local government inspector who was the commissioner in Tower Hamlets, was appointed by Mr Jenrick to lead the investigation into Liverpool last December.
Mr Caller focused his investigation on property management, regeneration, highways, contracts and planning at the council over the past five years.
The Telegraph understands that Mr Jenrick has now received the final report and recommendations from Mr Caller.
He will make a final decision on what action to take this week before the formal purdah period begins ahead of the local government elections. It is likely that Mr Jenrick will order commissioners into Liverpool.
Mr Caller has already briefed local MPs in the area about the findings which will be published this week. His report is understood to contain a “damning indictment of the council”.
Councillors will still be elected in Liverpool but could cede executive powers to the commissioners for as long as they are appointed.
The city's accounts have not been signed off by auditors for the past five years because of the continuing police inquiry into "financial irregularities".
Husband tells me that failure to get accounts signed off is a very serious matter. If the auditors have failed to do it for five years straight then I'm somewhat surprised that measures haven't been taken in Liverpool before now.
Manchester City Council will be feeling pretty smug right about now.
Maybe the Liberal (not Liberal Democrats) Party can build on their strength in Liverpool from this
Nah, Liverpool Labour is indestructible. Besides anything else, once the Evil Tories send their stooges in to take over the show, the Labour councillors can act as an opposition and blame the central Government for everything that happens in the city.
The Government is poised to take over the running of the city of Liverpool this week after a string of corruption allegations, The Telegraph can disclose.
The expected decision by the Local Government secretary Robert Jenrick to intervene in the running of one of the UK's biggest cities is unprecedented in modern times.
Commissioners could be sent in to run the day-to-day operations of the council for several years, something which has only happened three times in the past 25 years.
Commissioners were sent in by the Government to take over the running of councils in Northampton in 2018, Rotherham in 2015 and Towers Hamlets in 2014. None of them was the scale of a city like Liverpool, however.
Max Caller, a respected local government inspector who was the commissioner in Tower Hamlets, was appointed by Mr Jenrick to lead the investigation into Liverpool last December.
Mr Caller focused his investigation on property management, regeneration, highways, contracts and planning at the council over the past five years.
The Telegraph understands that Mr Jenrick has now received the final report and recommendations from Mr Caller.
He will make a final decision on what action to take this week before the formal purdah period begins ahead of the local government elections. It is likely that Mr Jenrick will order commissioners into Liverpool.
Mr Caller has already briefed local MPs in the area about the findings which will be published this week. His report is understood to contain a “damning indictment of the council”.
Councillors will still be elected in Liverpool but could cede executive powers to the commissioners for as long as they are appointed.
The city's accounts have not been signed off by auditors for the past five years because of the continuing police inquiry into "financial irregularities".
Presumably not done because the metro mayors are neither elected to take over the running of local authorities nor resourced to do so? I'm assuming that the process for central government to supplant the executive functions of councils is also defined in law.
Well, at the moment the Metro Mayor situation in Liverpool is more than a bit complicated in itself.
I thought all the brouhaha over mayors in Liverpool pertained to the city mayor (who may have been naughty) and not the metro mayor (who AFAIK is not implicated in anything untoward) - unless there are other things going on of which I have yet to read?
Another sign we needed a different name for these different positions.
In Bristol there was the Mayor of Bristol, the Lord Mayor of Bristol, and the West of England Mayor. I think someone even proposed a fourth kind of mayor.
Re: London mayor race (and extended to elections in general). Is there any rule against a candidate changing their name to “None Oftheabove” and chancing their luck?
If they did they would need a surname that ensured them the bottom slot.
Re: London mayor race (and extended to elections in general). Is there any rule against a candidate changing their name to “None Oftheabove” and chancing their luck?
If they did they would need a surname that ensured them the bottom slot.
The Government is poised to take over the running of the city of Liverpool this week after a string of corruption allegations, The Telegraph can disclose.
The expected decision by the Local Government secretary Robert Jenrick to intervene in the running of one of the UK's biggest cities is unprecedented in modern times.
Commissioners could be sent in to run the day-to-day operations of the council for several years, something which has only happened three times in the past 25 years.
Commissioners were sent in by the Government to take over the running of councils in Northampton in 2018, Rotherham in 2015 and Towers Hamlets in 2014. None of them was the scale of a city like Liverpool, however.
Max Caller, a respected local government inspector who was the commissioner in Tower Hamlets, was appointed by Mr Jenrick to lead the investigation into Liverpool last December.
Mr Caller focused his investigation on property management, regeneration, highways, contracts and planning at the council over the past five years.
The Telegraph understands that Mr Jenrick has now received the final report and recommendations from Mr Caller.
He will make a final decision on what action to take this week before the formal purdah period begins ahead of the local government elections. It is likely that Mr Jenrick will order commissioners into Liverpool.
Mr Caller has already briefed local MPs in the area about the findings which will be published this week. His report is understood to contain a “damning indictment of the council”.
Councillors will still be elected in Liverpool but could cede executive powers to the commissioners for as long as they are appointed.
The city's accounts have not been signed off by auditors for the past five years because of the continuing police inquiry into "financial irregularities".
Husband tells me that failure to get accounts signed off is a very serious matter. If the auditors have failed to do it for five years straight then I'm somewhat surprised that measures haven't been taken in Liverpool before now.
Manchester City Council will be feeling pretty smug right about now.
Maybe the Liberal (not Liberal Democrats) Party can build on their strength in Liverpool from this
Nah, Liverpool Labour is indestructible. Besides anything else, once the Evil Tories send their stooges in to take over the show, the Labour councillors can act as an opposition and blame the central Government for everything that happens in the city.
True - and they can use it now showing how the gov is trying to take them down ahead of the elections. Though in fairness of the local election results in a Tory majority on the council I think we can all agree that would indeed be suspicious intervention.
The Government is poised to take over the running of the city of Liverpool this week after a string of corruption allegations, The Telegraph can disclose.
The expected decision by the Local Government secretary Robert Jenrick to intervene in the running of one of the UK's biggest cities is unprecedented in modern times.
Commissioners could be sent in to run the day-to-day operations of the council for several years, something which has only happened three times in the past 25 years.
Commissioners were sent in by the Government to take over the running of councils in Northampton in 2018, Rotherham in 2015 and Towers Hamlets in 2014. None of them was the scale of a city like Liverpool, however.
Max Caller, a respected local government inspector who was the commissioner in Tower Hamlets, was appointed by Mr Jenrick to lead the investigation into Liverpool last December.
Mr Caller focused his investigation on property management, regeneration, highways, contracts and planning at the council over the past five years.
The Telegraph understands that Mr Jenrick has now received the final report and recommendations from Mr Caller.
He will make a final decision on what action to take this week before the formal purdah period begins ahead of the local government elections. It is likely that Mr Jenrick will order commissioners into Liverpool.
Mr Caller has already briefed local MPs in the area about the findings which will be published this week. His report is understood to contain a “damning indictment of the council”.
Councillors will still be elected in Liverpool but could cede executive powers to the commissioners for as long as they are appointed.
The city's accounts have not been signed off by auditors for the past five years because of the continuing police inquiry into "financial irregularities".
Husband tells me that failure to get accounts signed off is a very serious matter. If the auditors have failed to do it for five years straight then I'm somewhat surprised that measures haven't been taken in Liverpool before now.
Manchester City Council will be feeling pretty smug right about now.
Maybe the Liberal (not Liberal Democrats) Party can build on their strength in Liverpool from this
And how does Starmer explain it all
In defence of Starmer, local government is hard to control. Tory councils across the land don't shy away from railing against the government when it is convenient, and poorly run Labour councils would I imagine be very hard to rein in by the national party.
More significantly perhaps. The Union could end up in opposition.
On that poll Greens, SPD and Linke still only come to 47%, the FDP will not join a Green led government due to major ideological differences and the Greens will not touch the AfD, so a CDU/CSU and Green government on 49% combined still looks the likeliest outcome
The Government is poised to take over the running of the city of Liverpool this week after a string of corruption allegations, The Telegraph can disclose.
The expected decision by the Local Government secretary Robert Jenrick to intervene in the running of one of the UK's biggest cities is unprecedented in modern times.
Commissioners could be sent in to run the day-to-day operations of the council for several years, something which has only happened three times in the past 25 years.
Commissioners were sent in by the Government to take over the running of councils in Northampton in 2018, Rotherham in 2015 and Towers Hamlets in 2014. None of them was the scale of a city like Liverpool, however.
Max Caller, a respected local government inspector who was the commissioner in Tower Hamlets, was appointed by Mr Jenrick to lead the investigation into Liverpool last December.
Mr Caller focused his investigation on property management, regeneration, highways, contracts and planning at the council over the past five years.
The Telegraph understands that Mr Jenrick has now received the final report and recommendations from Mr Caller.
He will make a final decision on what action to take this week before the formal purdah period begins ahead of the local government elections. It is likely that Mr Jenrick will order commissioners into Liverpool.
Mr Caller has already briefed local MPs in the area about the findings which will be published this week. His report is understood to contain a “damning indictment of the council”.
Councillors will still be elected in Liverpool but could cede executive powers to the commissioners for as long as they are appointed.
The city's accounts have not been signed off by auditors for the past five years because of the continuing police inquiry into "financial irregularities".
Husband tells me that failure to get accounts signed off is a very serious matter. If the auditors have failed to do it for five years straight then I'm somewhat surprised that measures haven't been taken in Liverpool before now.
Manchester City Council will be feeling pretty smug right about now.
Maybe the Liberal (not Liberal Democrats) Party can build on their strength in Liverpool from this
Nah, Liverpool Labour is indestructible. Besides anything else, once the Evil Tories send their stooges in to take over the show, the Labour councillors can act as an opposition and blame the central Government for everything that happens in the city.
Actually as I understand it commissioners sent in to run LA's negates the powers of local politicians
Oh I see, so they're properly "Merged" for this election?
They function as sister parties. CSU only stands candidates in Bavaria, CDU throughout Germany except in Bavaria. I don't know why there's a formal split. AIUI, however, CSU is slightly more conservative.
The Government is poised to take over the running of the city of Liverpool this week after a string of corruption allegations, The Telegraph can disclose.
The expected decision by the Local Government secretary Robert Jenrick to intervene in the running of one of the UK's biggest cities is unprecedented in modern times.
Commissioners could be sent in to run the day-to-day operations of the council for several years, something which has only happened three times in the past 25 years.
Commissioners were sent in by the Government to take over the running of councils in Northampton in 2018, Rotherham in 2015 and Towers Hamlets in 2014. None of them was the scale of a city like Liverpool, however.
Max Caller, a respected local government inspector who was the commissioner in Tower Hamlets, was appointed by Mr Jenrick to lead the investigation into Liverpool last December.
Mr Caller focused his investigation on property management, regeneration, highways, contracts and planning at the council over the past five years.
The Telegraph understands that Mr Jenrick has now received the final report and recommendations from Mr Caller.
He will make a final decision on what action to take this week before the formal purdah period begins ahead of the local government elections. It is likely that Mr Jenrick will order commissioners into Liverpool.
Mr Caller has already briefed local MPs in the area about the findings which will be published this week. His report is understood to contain a “damning indictment of the council”.
Councillors will still be elected in Liverpool but could cede executive powers to the commissioners for as long as they are appointed.
The city's accounts have not been signed off by auditors for the past five years because of the continuing police inquiry into "financial irregularities".
Husband tells me that failure to get accounts signed off is a very serious matter. If the auditors have failed to do it for five years straight then I'm somewhat surprised that measures haven't been taken in Liverpool before now.
Manchester City Council will be feeling pretty smug right about now.
Maybe the Liberal (not Liberal Democrats) Party can build on their strength in Liverpool from this
Nah, Liverpool Labour is indestructible. Besides anything else, once the Evil Tories send their stooges in to take over the show, the Labour councillors can act as an opposition and blame the central Government for everything that happens in the city.
Actually as I understand it commissioners sent in to run LA's negates the powers of local politicians
Yes, but eventually they will get powers back, and they can help maintain their numbers, if they needed any help, by blaming the government day in day out until the election, and the lot of them can sit there sullenly until those powers are back, then blame the gov again.
The Government is poised to take over the running of the city of Liverpool this week after a string of corruption allegations, The Telegraph can disclose.
The expected decision by the Local Government secretary Robert Jenrick to intervene in the running of one of the UK's biggest cities is unprecedented in modern times.
Commissioners could be sent in to run the day-to-day operations of the council for several years, something which has only happened three times in the past 25 years.
Commissioners were sent in by the Government to take over the running of councils in Northampton in 2018, Rotherham in 2015 and Towers Hamlets in 2014. None of them was the scale of a city like Liverpool, however.
Max Caller, a respected local government inspector who was the commissioner in Tower Hamlets, was appointed by Mr Jenrick to lead the investigation into Liverpool last December.
Mr Caller focused his investigation on property management, regeneration, highways, contracts and planning at the council over the past five years.
The Telegraph understands that Mr Jenrick has now received the final report and recommendations from Mr Caller.
He will make a final decision on what action to take this week before the formal purdah period begins ahead of the local government elections. It is likely that Mr Jenrick will order commissioners into Liverpool.
Mr Caller has already briefed local MPs in the area about the findings which will be published this week. His report is understood to contain a “damning indictment of the council”.
Councillors will still be elected in Liverpool but could cede executive powers to the commissioners for as long as they are appointed.
The city's accounts have not been signed off by auditors for the past five years because of the continuing police inquiry into "financial irregularities".
Husband tells me that failure to get accounts signed off is a very serious matter. If the auditors have failed to do it for five years straight then I'm somewhat surprised that measures haven't been taken in Liverpool before now.
Manchester City Council will be feeling pretty smug right about now.
Maybe the Liberal (not Liberal Democrats) Party can build on their strength in Liverpool from this
And how does Starmer explain it all
In defence of Starmer, local government is hard to control. Tory councils across the land don't shy away from railing against the government when it is convenient, and poorly run Labour councils would I imagine be very hard to rein in by the national party.
Indeed but how can he even support Labour in local government in Liverpool
Also are there not serious criminal allegations at present
The Government is poised to take over the running of the city of Liverpool this week after a string of corruption allegations, The Telegraph can disclose.
The expected decision by the Local Government secretary Robert Jenrick to intervene in the running of one of the UK's biggest cities is unprecedented in modern times.
Commissioners could be sent in to run the day-to-day operations of the council for several years, something which has only happened three times in the past 25 years.
Commissioners were sent in by the Government to take over the running of councils in Northampton in 2018, Rotherham in 2015 and Towers Hamlets in 2014. None of them was the scale of a city like Liverpool, however.
Max Caller, a respected local government inspector who was the commissioner in Tower Hamlets, was appointed by Mr Jenrick to lead the investigation into Liverpool last December.
Mr Caller focused his investigation on property management, regeneration, highways, contracts and planning at the council over the past five years.
The Telegraph understands that Mr Jenrick has now received the final report and recommendations from Mr Caller.
He will make a final decision on what action to take this week before the formal purdah period begins ahead of the local government elections. It is likely that Mr Jenrick will order commissioners into Liverpool.
Mr Caller has already briefed local MPs in the area about the findings which will be published this week. His report is understood to contain a “damning indictment of the council”.
Councillors will still be elected in Liverpool but could cede executive powers to the commissioners for as long as they are appointed.
The city's accounts have not been signed off by auditors for the past five years because of the continuing police inquiry into "financial irregularities".
Husband tells me that failure to get accounts signed off is a very serious matter. If the auditors have failed to do it for five years straight then I'm somewhat surprised that measures haven't been taken in Liverpool before now.
Manchester City Council will be feeling pretty smug right about now.
Maybe the Liberal (not Liberal Democrats) Party can build on their strength in Liverpool from this
Nah, Liverpool Labour is indestructible. Besides anything else, once the Evil Tories send their stooges in to take over the show, the Labour councillors can act as an opposition and blame the central Government for everything that happens in the city.
This week I haves been mostly eating...BOURBON BISCUITS
I only eat biscuits named for historical figures, so Bourbons and Garibaldis are basically it.
Nice
So many people forget Sir Alexander Tollemache Carlyon de Chocolate-Hobnob, Admiral of the Blue and renegade leader of the Patagonian Revolutionary War in 1822
You unaccountably forgot the abolitionist baronet, Sir Christopher Kat.
Charles James Fox also possessed biscuits, reputedly.
I thought Kit Kats were named after the club in Cabaret.
There was a nightclub in Berlin called the Kitkat club all one word, but there was an earlier gentleman's club in London called the Kit Cat Club.
Oh I see, so they're properly "Merged" for this election?
They function as sister parties. CSU only stands candidates in Bavaria, CDU throughout Germany except in Bavaria. I don't know why there's a formal split. AIUI, however, CSU is slightly more conservative.
Yes, I know all that, but that graph is the first time I've seen them NOT referred to as "CDU/CSU".
Oh I see, so they're properly "Merged" for this election?
They function as sister parties. CSU only stands candidates in Bavaria, CDU throughout Germany except in Bavaria. I don't know why there's a formal split. AIUI, however, CSU is slightly more conservative.
Because they are both "Christian". But the Bavarian one is overtly Catholic.
The Government is poised to take over the running of the city of Liverpool this week after a string of corruption allegations, The Telegraph can disclose.
The expected decision by the Local Government secretary Robert Jenrick to intervene in the running of one of the UK's biggest cities is unprecedented in modern times.
Commissioners could be sent in to run the day-to-day operations of the council for several years, something which has only happened three times in the past 25 years.
Commissioners were sent in by the Government to take over the running of councils in Northampton in 2018, Rotherham in 2015 and Towers Hamlets in 2014. None of them was the scale of a city like Liverpool, however.
Max Caller, a respected local government inspector who was the commissioner in Tower Hamlets, was appointed by Mr Jenrick to lead the investigation into Liverpool last December.
Mr Caller focused his investigation on property management, regeneration, highways, contracts and planning at the council over the past five years.
The Telegraph understands that Mr Jenrick has now received the final report and recommendations from Mr Caller.
He will make a final decision on what action to take this week before the formal purdah period begins ahead of the local government elections. It is likely that Mr Jenrick will order commissioners into Liverpool.
Mr Caller has already briefed local MPs in the area about the findings which will be published this week. His report is understood to contain a “damning indictment of the council”.
Councillors will still be elected in Liverpool but could cede executive powers to the commissioners for as long as they are appointed.
The city's accounts have not been signed off by auditors for the past five years because of the continuing police inquiry into "financial irregularities".
Husband tells me that failure to get accounts signed off is a very serious matter. If the auditors have failed to do it for five years straight then I'm somewhat surprised that measures haven't been taken in Liverpool before now.
Manchester City Council will be feeling pretty smug right about now.
Maybe the Liberal (not Liberal Democrats) Party can build on their strength in Liverpool from this
Nah, Liverpool Labour is indestructible. Besides anything else, once the Evil Tories send their stooges in to take over the show, the Labour councillors can act as an opposition and blame the central Government for everything that happens in the city.
Actually as I understand it commissioners sent in to run LA's negates the powers of local politicians
Yes, but eventually they will get powers back, and they can help maintain their numbers, if they needed any help, by blaming the government day in day out until the election, and the lot of them can sit there sullenly until those powers are back, then blame the gov again.
One report suggests the commissioners could be in place for several years
The Government is poised to take over the running of the city of Liverpool this week after a string of corruption allegations, The Telegraph can disclose.
The expected decision by the Local Government secretary Robert Jenrick to intervene in the running of one of the UK's biggest cities is unprecedented in modern times.
Commissioners could be sent in to run the day-to-day operations of the council for several years, something which has only happened three times in the past 25 years.
Commissioners were sent in by the Government to take over the running of councils in Northampton in 2018, Rotherham in 2015 and Towers Hamlets in 2014. None of them was the scale of a city like Liverpool, however.
Max Caller, a respected local government inspector who was the commissioner in Tower Hamlets, was appointed by Mr Jenrick to lead the investigation into Liverpool last December.
Mr Caller focused his investigation on property management, regeneration, highways, contracts and planning at the council over the past five years.
The Telegraph understands that Mr Jenrick has now received the final report and recommendations from Mr Caller.
He will make a final decision on what action to take this week before the formal purdah period begins ahead of the local government elections. It is likely that Mr Jenrick will order commissioners into Liverpool.
Mr Caller has already briefed local MPs in the area about the findings which will be published this week. His report is understood to contain a “damning indictment of the council”.
Councillors will still be elected in Liverpool but could cede executive powers to the commissioners for as long as they are appointed.
The city's accounts have not been signed off by auditors for the past five years because of the continuing police inquiry into "financial irregularities".
Husband tells me that failure to get accounts signed off is a very serious matter. If the auditors have failed to do it for five years straight then I'm somewhat surprised that measures haven't been taken in Liverpool before now.
Manchester City Council will be feeling pretty smug right about now.
Maybe the Liberal (not Liberal Democrats) Party can build on their strength in Liverpool from this
Nah, Liverpool Labour is indestructible. Besides anything else, once the Evil Tories send their stooges in to take over the show, the Labour councillors can act as an opposition and blame the central Government for everything that happens in the city.
The Liberals have run Liverpool within living memory. Many of us recall Trevor Jones -'Jones - The Vote'.
This is one of those times where your exhaustive historical recall actually makes 'within living memory' seem like it was a lot longer ago than it was for the Liberals, let alone the LDs.
Heck 'within living memory' it looks like even the Conservatives had control.
The Government is poised to take over the running of the city of Liverpool this week after a string of corruption allegations, The Telegraph can disclose.
The expected decision by the Local Government secretary Robert Jenrick to intervene in the running of one of the UK's biggest cities is unprecedented in modern times.
Commissioners could be sent in to run the day-to-day operations of the council for several years, something which has only happened three times in the past 25 years.
Commissioners were sent in by the Government to take over the running of councils in Northampton in 2018, Rotherham in 2015 and Towers Hamlets in 2014. None of them was the scale of a city like Liverpool, however.
Max Caller, a respected local government inspector who was the commissioner in Tower Hamlets, was appointed by Mr Jenrick to lead the investigation into Liverpool last December.
Mr Caller focused his investigation on property management, regeneration, highways, contracts and planning at the council over the past five years.
The Telegraph understands that Mr Jenrick has now received the final report and recommendations from Mr Caller.
He will make a final decision on what action to take this week before the formal purdah period begins ahead of the local government elections. It is likely that Mr Jenrick will order commissioners into Liverpool.
Mr Caller has already briefed local MPs in the area about the findings which will be published this week. His report is understood to contain a “damning indictment of the council”.
Councillors will still be elected in Liverpool but could cede executive powers to the commissioners for as long as they are appointed.
The city's accounts have not been signed off by auditors for the past five years because of the continuing police inquiry into "financial irregularities".
Husband tells me that failure to get accounts signed off is a very serious matter. If the auditors have failed to do it for five years straight then I'm somewhat surprised that measures haven't been taken in Liverpool before now.
Manchester City Council will be feeling pretty smug right about now.
Maybe the Liberal (not Liberal Democrats) Party can build on their strength in Liverpool from this
And how does Starmer explain it all
In defence of Starmer, local government is hard to control. Tory councils across the land don't shy away from railing against the government when it is convenient, and poorly run Labour councils would I imagine be very hard to rein in by the national party.
Indeed but how can he even support Labour in local government in Liverpool
Also are there not serious criminal allegations at present
Wait until you hear about Northamptonshire council.
The Government is poised to take over the running of the city of Liverpool this week after a string of corruption allegations, The Telegraph can disclose.
The expected decision by the Local Government secretary Robert Jenrick to intervene in the running of one of the UK's biggest cities is unprecedented in modern times.
Commissioners could be sent in to run the day-to-day operations of the council for several years, something which has only happened three times in the past 25 years.
Commissioners were sent in by the Government to take over the running of councils in Northampton in 2018, Rotherham in 2015 and Towers Hamlets in 2014. None of them was the scale of a city like Liverpool, however.
Max Caller, a respected local government inspector who was the commissioner in Tower Hamlets, was appointed by Mr Jenrick to lead the investigation into Liverpool last December.
Mr Caller focused his investigation on property management, regeneration, highways, contracts and planning at the council over the past five years.
The Telegraph understands that Mr Jenrick has now received the final report and recommendations from Mr Caller.
He will make a final decision on what action to take this week before the formal purdah period begins ahead of the local government elections. It is likely that Mr Jenrick will order commissioners into Liverpool.
Mr Caller has already briefed local MPs in the area about the findings which will be published this week. His report is understood to contain a “damning indictment of the council”.
Councillors will still be elected in Liverpool but could cede executive powers to the commissioners for as long as they are appointed.
The city's accounts have not been signed off by auditors for the past five years because of the continuing police inquiry into "financial irregularities".
Husband tells me that failure to get accounts signed off is a very serious matter. If the auditors have failed to do it for five years straight then I'm somewhat surprised that measures haven't been taken in Liverpool before now.
Manchester City Council will be feeling pretty smug right about now.
Maybe the Liberal (not Liberal Democrats) Party can build on their strength in Liverpool from this
Nah, Liverpool Labour is indestructible. Besides anything else, once the Evil Tories send their stooges in to take over the show, the Labour councillors can act as an opposition and blame the central Government for everything that happens in the city.
Actually as I understand it commissioners sent in to run LA's negates the powers of local politicians
I'm not sure exactly what competences the local councillors would retain (presumably little or none) but the council itself will still be elected anyway. I had a look at the Northamptonshire County Council website (Northants having been subject to the commissioners since 2018) to check, and their councillors are all still in office. Though granted their situation is a bit different, as they'll be taking part in the unitarisation process that the Government has imposed.
Free booze in pubs and clubs for all for a week in August should solve the problem.
Incels won't be going. They will be sitting in their underpants in their bedroom complaining online that women don't deserve them.
The growing number of incels is a very serious problem IMO.
In my opinion, they need to get offline, have a shower, dress and groom themselves properly, then treat women with respect, and to be a good listener. It is a simple formula that works.
That isn't the problem IMO. The problem is women have been told they should only accept their perfect idea of a male partner, or something very close to it.
Oh, we're the problem are we? Because we won't put up with having some third-rate man.
There are plenty of good men around - good not in the sense of earning squillions or being famous or having big houses etc - but good in the sense of being sexy and funny and considerate and just fun to be with. And if more men were like that there would be absolutely no problem with them finding women to have relationships with.
The Government is poised to take over the running of the city of Liverpool this week after a string of corruption allegations, The Telegraph can disclose.
The expected decision by the Local Government secretary Robert Jenrick to intervene in the running of one of the UK's biggest cities is unprecedented in modern times.
Commissioners could be sent in to run the day-to-day operations of the council for several years, something which has only happened three times in the past 25 years.
Commissioners were sent in by the Government to take over the running of councils in Northampton in 2018, Rotherham in 2015 and Towers Hamlets in 2014. None of them was the scale of a city like Liverpool, however.
Max Caller, a respected local government inspector who was the commissioner in Tower Hamlets, was appointed by Mr Jenrick to lead the investigation into Liverpool last December.
Mr Caller focused his investigation on property management, regeneration, highways, contracts and planning at the council over the past five years.
The Telegraph understands that Mr Jenrick has now received the final report and recommendations from Mr Caller.
He will make a final decision on what action to take this week before the formal purdah period begins ahead of the local government elections. It is likely that Mr Jenrick will order commissioners into Liverpool.
Mr Caller has already briefed local MPs in the area about the findings which will be published this week. His report is understood to contain a “damning indictment of the council”.
Councillors will still be elected in Liverpool but could cede executive powers to the commissioners for as long as they are appointed.
The city's accounts have not been signed off by auditors for the past five years because of the continuing police inquiry into "financial irregularities".
Husband tells me that failure to get accounts signed off is a very serious matter. If the auditors have failed to do it for five years straight then I'm somewhat surprised that measures haven't been taken in Liverpool before now.
Manchester City Council will be feeling pretty smug right about now.
Maybe the Liberal (not Liberal Democrats) Party can build on their strength in Liverpool from this
Nah, Liverpool Labour is indestructible. Besides anything else, once the Evil Tories send their stooges in to take over the show, the Labour councillors can act as an opposition and blame the central Government for everything that happens in the city.
Liverpool was run by Liberals in 1970s.
And the Tories in the late 1960s.
Currently Liverpool has 72 Labour councillors, 10 LD councillors, 4 Green councillors , 3 Liberal councillors and 0 Tory councillors
Local government in this country is a complete joke
In what way? I thought the Liverpool situation was due to the current Mayor being under arrest on corruption charges.
Seems to be more to it given the statement about the signing off of their accounts. But I think a lot of local government gets on, quietly, with a pretty decent job. It was cut back hard by austerity (there was a lot of wood to cut, but it may have gone a little too far) but those local politician's I've seen are often less partisan than national equivalents (obviously this is not the case everywhere) and it can be pretty thankless as there are many national dictats (for good and ill) which people don't like which councils have to follow (I've had a leaflet today which rather boldly proclaims in response to local housing matters and national rules 'X needs protecting. if the government won't do it, then we will').
Parishes are the real wild west, despite having minimal power. There's so much that could be going on that is unlawful, deliberately or through lack of knowledge, and it'd be hard to discover it or challenge it.
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Well done France!
[Moderated] the Welsh.
Fair play to France
Le jour de gloire est arrivé !
Contre nous de la tyrannie
L'étendard sanglant est levé, (bis)
Entendez-vous dans les campagnes
Mugir ces féroces soldats ?
Ils viennent jusque dans vos bras
Égorger vos fils, vos compagnes !
Whatever turns you on, guys
Well done both teams
I brung you a massage: The Frunch have won the Rigby match against the Wulsh!
You do not understand what you are talking about, not remotely. It is a tiny bit embarrassing
Although if I read the table aright Wales should still take the trophy unless France beat Scotland by something crazy like 25 points.
The Government is poised to take over the running of the city of Liverpool this week after a string of corruption allegations, The Telegraph can disclose.
The expected decision by the Local Government secretary Robert Jenrick to intervene in the running of one of the UK's biggest cities is unprecedented in modern times.
Commissioners could be sent in to run the day-to-day operations of the council for several years, something which has only happened three times in the past 25 years.
Commissioners were sent in by the Government to take over the running of councils in Northampton in 2018, Rotherham in 2015 and Towers Hamlets in 2014. None of them was the scale of a city like Liverpool, however.
Max Caller, a respected local government inspector who was the commissioner in Tower Hamlets, was appointed by Mr Jenrick to lead the investigation into Liverpool last December.
Mr Caller focused his investigation on property management, regeneration, highways, contracts and planning at the council over the past five years.
The Telegraph understands that Mr Jenrick has now received the final report and recommendations from Mr Caller.
He will make a final decision on what action to take this week before the formal purdah period begins ahead of the local government elections. It is likely that Mr Jenrick will order commissioners into Liverpool.
Mr Caller has already briefed local MPs in the area about the findings which will be published this week. His report is understood to contain a “damning indictment of the council”.
Councillors will still be elected in Liverpool but could cede executive powers to the commissioners for as long as they are appointed.
The city's accounts have not been signed off by auditors for the past five years because of the continuing police inquiry into "financial irregularities".
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/03/20/ministers-poised-run-liverpool/
Literally millimetres away from a Grand Slam game against Scotland.
DuPont is the best player in Europe by a country mile. Everything goes through him. Quick, decisive, and, crucially, almost always the correct decision.
Tomorrow, Holyrood?
Northern Premier League soon.
Charles James Fox also possessed biscuits, reputedly.
And what about Anglesey?
The interesting thing as well is such crappy governance is not an automatic result of dominance by a party, as there are plenty of councils well run despite that.
https://twitter.com/Wahlen_DE/status/1373394751714697225
So a 21 points win with four tries scored.
We ought to see France REALLY chuck the ball around.
A bad Test match is worse than both, but a great one cannot be beat due to 5 days of build up and anticipation.
The Union could end up in opposition.
Maybe the Liberal (not Liberal Democrats) Party can build on their strength in Liverpool from this
But it isn’t exactly a gimme to have a 21 point margin,
Yet Mayor Anderson found the resources to give Everton FC a £250 million loan for their new football stadium.
Would you be shocked to learn that Anderson is a Everton fan?
In Bristol there was the Mayor of Bristol, the Lord Mayor of Bristol, and the West of England Mayor. I think someone even proposed a fourth kind of mayor.
Also are there not serious criminal allegations at present
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit-Cat_Club
But he is trying my patience at the moment.
Heck 'within living memory' it looks like even the Conservatives had control.
And on that cheerful note, good night.
Or Northampton borough council.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/nov/06/northampton-town-extinction-missing-millions
Here's one.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/nov/06/northampton-town-extinction-missing-millions
The councils that really do mess up spectacularly are the ones where they are effectively one party states.
There are plenty of good men around - good not in the sense of earning squillions or being famous or having big houses etc - but good in the sense of being sexy and funny and considerate and just fun to be with. And if more men were like that there would be absolutely no problem with them finding women to have relationships with.
Reminds me of :Con Gain Bottle @Ave_it .
https://twitter.com/JonTonge/status/1373403551502888963
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_City_Council
Parishes are the real wild west, despite having minimal power. There's so much that could be going on that is unlawful, deliberately or through lack of knowledge, and it'd be hard to discover it or challenge it.