Take a good look, our Cornwall is changing - and it won't be here forever
Housing is the issue on everybody's lips this week it seems - if you can get past the taste of horse meat.
View ArticleShameful attempt to curry favour before an election
No Skipper column would be complete without a glimpse into the shennanigans at Cornwall Council, but this week’s will have to be short, mainly becauses most of my day has been spent with my head in my...
View ArticleEat more fish, veg and local meat but above all eat Cornish
Your pal the Skipper is not going to horse around this week, rather he is going to sink his teeth into the meat scandal that has made a lot of people feel a little queasy.
View ArticleZero council tax rise: The right decision?
So, no council tax rise. That was the final result of one of the most bad tempered, contrary and politically motivated displays of hubris that your pal the Skipper has ever had the misfortune to watch.
View ArticleWhen will the rank hypocrisy of these people be noticed?
They say that every political career ends in failure, but who would have guessed how spectacularly Collin Brewer’s end would play out, in front of the nation’s media as he is lambasted from all sides.
View ArticleUnexpectedly bad decision in the bagging area
The rise of automated tills. Yes it was about time the Skipper took a break from council bashing, and had a look at something that has been getting his goat for years.
View ArticleSo much damage, done by so a few, for so little
Politics is a dirty business, never more so than when elections are looming and spaces at the trough are up for grabs. So it is worth bearing this in mind when you read about the ongoing omnishambles...
View ArticleThe cuts at Culdrose - A flagrant disregard for heroism and tradition
In all my years as stalwart of the Packet's letters page, it is rare that I have seen such a flagrant disregard for heroism and tradition.
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£10 million to lay the Iron Lady to rest. Money well spent?
So the great/terrible (delete depending on your partisan view) Iron Lady is laid to rest today.
View ArticleMost weapons per head of population in the UK
Hard to believe, but I was actually quite good at maths when I was at school and I’ve always had a love of numbers. Last week’s dramatic events in Boston have had me doodling with the arithmetic:...
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‘Politicians are like nappies, they need changed often’
So the people have spoken, and the long awaited clear out at County Hall is underway.
View ArticleTime to change the rules on kicking out councillors?
I thought that I would never have to write on this subject again, but the people of Wadebridge decided, in their infinite wisdom, to re-elect Collin Brewer for another term on Cornwall Council.
View ArticleNature abhors a vacuum
They say that nature abhors a vacuum. And when you take the big beasts out of a jungle, one of two things happen: either some new big beasts come along to take their place, or the whole ecology is...
View ArticleNHS changes, plus the man in charge of Cornwall Council finances is......?
Depending on which anonymous ministerial briefing you believe, the National Health Service is either (a) on the point of collapse because of elderly people “bed blocking” in acute hospitals or (b)...
View ArticleRoundabout plans. Anything to do with huge Bickland Water Road housing plans?
So the government has announced that it will spend a large lump of our cash on replacing the mini roundabouts at Union Corner with one big one.
View Article‘Dog owners come out nipping and snarling’
I have been called many things in my time, from the ridiculous to the sublime.
View Article‘Could the parking cock-up be part of a diabolical plan’
Parking, I am almost as sick of pointing out the slow motion car crash that recent Cornwall Council policy decisions have created, as I am digging deep to pay the ever increasing cost.
View ArticleSurely they are targeting the wrong tax-dodgers...
News this week that Falmouth Town Council's council tax could rise by 13 per cent under new government legislation should probably not have come as much of a surprise to anyone.
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