I’ve done a metro-style map of all the scheduled buses that call in Huntingdon.
You can download it as a PDF here.
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Labour’s targeting was too ruthless
This originally appeared as a guest post on James O’Malley’s substack. The reception to it was much better than I expected, and was shared by Ann Black, Michael Crick, and the Politico London Playbook amongst others.
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This short article for the Hunts Post is one of the pieces of writing I’m most proud of, right up there with my doctoral thesis. It’s the last thing I wrote for the Hunts Post when I was mayor; I didn’t put it on here at the time, but I want to have it on here for posterity or whatever.
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| Year | Precept (£)* | Increase (£) † | Increase (%) † | Cumulative Increase (£) † | Cumulative increase (%) † | CPI to April (%) ‡ | Cumulative CPI to Apr (%) † |
| 16-17 | 128.61 | ||||||
| 17-18 | 136.26 | 7.65 | 5.95 | 7.65 | 5.95 | 2.4 | 2.4 |
| 18-19 | 141.75 | 5.49 | 4.03 | 13.14 | 10.22 | 2.1 | 4.6 |
| 19-20 | 168.11 | 26.36 | 18.60 | 39.50 | 30.71 | 0.8 | 5.4 |
| 20-21 | 171.87 | 3.76 | 2.24 | 43.26 | 33.64 | 1.5 | 7.0 |
| 21-22 | 181.37 | 9.50 | 5.53 | 52.76 | 41.02 | 9.0 | 17.0 |
| 22-23 | 187.67 | 6.30 | 3.47 | 59.06 | 45.92 | 8.7 | 27.0 |
| 23-24 | 213.43 | 25.76 | 13.73 | 84.82 | 65.95 | ||
| 24-25 | 234.39 | 20.96 | 9.2 | 105.78 | 82.25 |
* Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Ministry of Housing, Co. (2013). Council Tax statistics. [Online]. gov.uk. Last Updated: 21 June 2023. Available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/council-tax-statistics [Accessed 16 February 2024].
† Calculated by me.
‡ Office for National Statistics. (2024). Consumer price inflation, UK: January 2024. [Online]. Office for National Statistics. Last Updated: 14 February 2024. Available at: https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/bulletins/consumerpriceinflation/latest [Accessed 16 February 2024].
Huntingdon Town Council budget 24/25
Huntingdon Town Council is currently going through its budget and precept setting for FY24/25. Unusually, the budget and precept were not approved when they were presented to the full finance committee earlier this month.
Below are my remarks on the budget and precept at the finance committee meeting on 11th January 2024. The headings weren’t read out, but were for me so I knew where I was in what I was saying. The budget is at the Town Council website and is the document I refer to.
At the meeting, it was agreed that councillors would submit their proposals. In the interests of transparency, I’m sharing mine publicly. My suggestions are in column G of this Excel.
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Mayor’s Report
My report to the annual meeting of Huntingdon Town Council at the end of my mayoralty.
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The ‘artists with degrees’ meme
The picture here is doing the rounds on social media, and it has annoyed me, and I thought I’d explain why.
Good public transport is needed to help reduce car use and carbon emissions
This article originally appeared in the Hunts Post on 19th August 2022
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