Topic: Eric Pickles
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Labor is obsessed with focus groups and the dark arts of spin
British paying heavily for polls Aug 09, 2008
It is fundamentally unfair that householders are now getting hammered with larger fines than shoplifters get for stealing
Watercooler Stories Aug 05, 2008
It is fundamentally unfair that householders are now getting hammered with larger fines than shoplifters get for stealing
Trash violators may face serious fines Aug 03, 2008
There is already massive public resentment at the way working families and pensioners are being punished by punitive levels of council tax. Now every household in Britain faces the prospect of new rubbish taxes on top
British trash-fee hike to help recycling Feb 10, 2007
Health and safety will ban everything. I would be kind of interested to hear when the last time an orange and a candle set fire to a child's hair
Watercooler Stories Dec 14, 2006
Eric Jack Pickles (born 20 April 1952) is a British Conservative Party politician. Pickles was appointed Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government of the coalition government headed by Prime Minister David Cameron on 12 May 2010.
He was the Chairman of the Conservative Party until being replaced by The Baroness Warsi in May 2010 and has been Member of Parliament for Brentwood and Ongar in Essex since 1992. He was Co-Chairman of the Joint Committee Against Racism between 1982 and 1987.
Born in Keighley, Yorkshire, he went to Greenhead Grammar School (now Greenhead High School) on Greenhead Road in Utley, north Keighley, then Leeds Polytechnic. He was born into a Labour supporting family – his great grandfather was one of the founders of the Independent Labour Party, and described himself as 'massively inclined' towards communism as a boy – but he joined the Conservative Party in 1968 after the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia.
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