Martin Wheatley
@wheatley_martin
Public services/housing , @Governsmarter, @instituteforgov, chair @chsgroup and @yourcroydon housing improvement board, Fellow @theRSAorg.
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http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/martin-wheatley/10/902/4a1 22-12-2011 15:43:21
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Nice outing to #reachfair incl Proclamation with Cambridge City Council's dressing up box well and truly raided. #bicycles aplenty too
In other joyous news, Count Binface polled almost twice as many votes as the 'Britain First - No To Immigration' mayoral candidate in Merton and Wandsworth
The @reachride is this weekend!🚲
Join us on Bank Holiday Monday for a leisurely ride to reachfair through beautiful countryside. Meet from 9am to depart at 10 from Cambridge (outside Great St Mary's, The University Church, Cambridge) or from Ely rail station (with Ely Cycling Campaign).
More at camcycle.org.uk/reachride
NEW: Next govt must prioritise a one-year spending review ahead of a December planning “cliff-edge”, warns Institute for Government
IfG cautions departmental, council & devolved budgets (which expire April 2025) are mired in worst uncertainty for decades
ft.com/content/b0cd4a…
We #LoveCargoBikes of all kinds, but this is a new one on us - a gramophone on a bike in East Cambridgeshire! 🎶
Anyone else out there carrying interesting musical instruments or devices by bike? 🥁
This article from the Times uses Oflog data in a really damaging way and paints an unrealistic picture of local authority performance
As Rhys Clyne and I warned in our report last year, it also undermines local gov trust in Oflog
Short thread
thetimes.co.uk/article/worst-…