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Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
Via the BBC: From January English councils will be able to bid for pilot schemes to incentivise people for recycling more and deter them from throwing stuff away [by levying charges]… Eric Pickles, Conservative local government spokesman, has regularly criticised the [previous pilot charging schemes as] “hated bin taxes”… But Paul Bettison, a Conservative councillor responsible for waste [...]
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The Bristow Blog (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
As part of the council's value for money agenda, we have cut council tax again. The leader of the council Stephen Greenhalgh is pictured with Conservative MP and Shadow Secretary of State for Local Government, Eric Pickles. We have found...
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ConservativeHome (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
ToryDiary: Is Boris too much of a maverick? ToryDiary: What would you like to ask Eric Pickles? Leave us your questions Daniel Hannan in Local Government: Councillors should be given more power from the centre Susie Squire on Platform: The...
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ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
Eric Pickles, the shadow secretary of state or communities and local government, has agreed to answer questions from ConservativeHome readers. Leave your questions below, we'll put a broad selection of them to Eric and then publish his reponses.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
What a row of grim faces on the Tory front bench. Despite any and all efforts to look like winners, the whole team has the air of Eric Pickles. Poor George Osborne looked bankrupt. His credit collapsed. The Prime Minister is right (it's the last time I'll use those words): it's all George Osborne's fault.
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ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 27/10/2008
The newspapers are full of those Bullingdon photographs again. You would have thought that Labour had learnt the lesson in Crewe and Nantwich. They tried class war then and it backfired spectacularly. We still think the Conservative Party would benefit...
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ConservativeHome (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
ToryDiary: Five things we need to hear from the Conservatives Mark Harper MP on Platform: All legislation should state if it originates from the EU Ben Rogers on CentreRight: Pakistan is in grave danger of Talibanisation Local government: Eric Pickles...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Statement Released By Beat - The Leading National Eating Disorder Charity -On The Recent Comments By Shadow Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles On John Prescott: "We are disappointed by this irresponsible and thoughtless comment. Any comments that might prevent someone from seeking treatment by trivialising the condition are potentially very dangerous.
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Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
The Independent website has the Press Association’s story: A Tory frontbencher was forced to apologise today after expressing pride that he might have contributed to John Prescott’s bulimia. Shadow local government secretary Eric Pickles admitted he had been “silly” to mock the former Deputy Prime Minister’s condition at a party fringe [...]
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The UK Daily Pundit (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
The Telegraph's Andrew Porter has got it in for him. The chief executive of the Eating Disorders Association has got it in for him. And ChrisB at the left-leaning Too Early To Tell blog has got it in for him. That's the bad news. The good news is, top Tory blogger Iain Dale hasn't got it in for him. He just thinks he's a, " dirty northern bastard ." Charming.
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Despatch Blog (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
As I was chatting to a hack in a Birmingham bar at this week’s Conservative party conference I found myself asking him; “Why is Eric Pickles (Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government) so interested in doughnuts? It’s a rather sardonic question but reveals something deeply embedded in the Tory road to victory strategy. Being talked about in the corridors of the ICC in Birmingham...
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Labourhome (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
The frontbench tory who has argued that councils should actively oppose the goverment has revealed his true colours today. From the Times: Eric Pickles, the shadow local government secretary, told delegates at the Conservative Party conference last night that he hoped he had exacerbated Mr Prescott’s condition. Mr Pickles told sniggering party members that he could be a “complete bastard” to his opponents...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Eric Pickles says sorry after quip at Conservative party fringe event
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Labour Matters (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Recess Monkey reports: “On the day of his keynote speech, David Cameron faces embarrassment as feted future Conservative Party Chairman Eric Pickles MP boasted about sometimes being a ‘complete bastard’ and expressed pride about the possibility that he’d caused John Prescott’s bulimia. At a fringe meeting on Tuesday night, Pickles said: “When old Prescott came out as [...]
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
A Conservative frontbencher was forced to apologise today for offensive remarks he made about John Prescott’s battle with bulimia.
