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2021, much like 2020, might well have felt like a year in which nothing happened. Certainly, the pandemic postponed much of what we might like to have done personally and professionally, and it’s much the same in terms of the public sector. Yet, looking back through the record of council meetings over the last twelve…
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It will be a decade next year since I started as Labour Group Leader on Crawley Borough Council and began writing this column. In that time the Christmas column has always been the easiest to write, with council business shut down for the year and residents not looking for anything too political. Consequently, I’ve always…
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Over recent weeks, the phrase ‘dead cat’ has kept cropping up in relation to news stories from Government. It’s not a pleasant image, but it originates in advice given to Boris Johnson by a Conservative spin doctor that if you throw a dead cat on a table people will talk about the cat and not…
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Crawley’s bid to become the first new town to be named a city was submitted to the government last week. The 2022 bid – on the diamond anniversary of the creation of Crawley New Town – reflects the strength, vibrancy and diversity of our communities and the power of our economy. The bid is based…
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Cllr Peter Lamb, Leader of Crawley Borough Council, is calling on the people of Crawley to book their booster jabs as part of a major national effort to protect the country from the Omicron variant. Cllr Lamb said: “No one wants to see Christmas cancelled, but unless we all do what we can to limit…
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For all its many major consequences, one of the few upsides of the pandemic is the way it has helped drawn attention to important things which might otherwise have gone ignored. One example being that after five years of Boris Johnson and Michael Gove telling people to ignore experts, COVID-19 has made it clear doing…
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For the last eleven years, I’m proud to have represented a party which has seeks election to safeguard Crawley’s public services, not to cut them. Despite endless reductions in funding from Conservative Government, for the first six years after Labour regained control of the council, we managed to protect frontline services from any cuts by…
Peter Lamb for Crawley 