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The UK lockdown began on 23rd March 2020. The stated purpose of the lockdown was to stop NHS hospitals being overwhelmed by the effects of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. When it became apparent that NHS hospitals were not going to be [...]
On the 16th April 2020 at 8PM uniformed Police officers from around Scarborough gathered at the main entrance of Scarborough Hospital and flagrantly broke the law. The gathering was not essential for work purposes. The law in question is The [...]
The Politically Correct Deputy Chief Constable of North Yorkshire Police (NYP), Phil Cain, took an ‘essential journey’ across to Scarborough on Wednesday to congratulate Winn, who has served NYP for 50 years. Congratulations on 50 years service, Winn. Quite some [...]
Northstead Ward councillor, John Atkinson, who was so ashamed to be a Liberal Democrat that he stood as an Independent in the 2019 Scarborough Borough Council elections, asked SBC’s senior legal officer for epidemiological advice whether it would be OK [...]
UKIP’s last remaining councillor on Scarborough Borough Council, Neil Heritage, has quit the party and has said he will stand as an independent councillor in the future. Heritage was the last UKIP councillor in Yorkshire. In October 2018 I joined [...]
Scarborough Borough Council (SBC), through their Appointments Committee, have announced that they are appointing Dr Jim Brace as the Audit Committee’s new independent co-opted member. Further scrutiny of the SBC Appointments Committee meeting shows that the appointment appears to have [...]
Deputy leader of the Labour group on Scarborough Borough Council (SBC) Cllr Tony Randerson has been using public sector resources during an election period to campaign for the Labour Party at the General Election. Randerson transgressed the pre-election period rules [...]
The 2019 General Election campaign is well underway and our doormats are being peppered with leaflets from professional liars political parties. These are the same parties who reneged on their promise to respect the result of the 2016 EU Referendum [...]
What is the 1972 European Communities Act? The 1972 European Communities Act is the piece of legislation that brought the United Kingdom (UK) into the European Union (EU): it gave EU law supremacy over UK national law. A large amount [...]
“Broken Promises” is a series of articles looking at the election promises of councillors who were elected to Scarborough Borough Council in May 2019 and their actions as your Borough Council representatives since. Third on the list is Cllr Jim [...]
