Chris Costello

@ChrisCostello_

Labour Councillor🌹🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Joined November 2020

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A PM focused on what matters.

The SNP want to centralise, Labour will place power in the hands of our communities.

Also it is right that this commitment was made in North Lan, an industrial heartland and home to Scotland’s largest Labour Council delivering for working people.

BBC Politics Verified account @BBCPolitics Oct 16

"My message to John is simple, I want to push economic power out into the regions of Scotland, do you?"

Andy Burnham challenges Scotland's First Minister John Swinney to "push power" out from Westminster and Holyrood "into the hands of local people"

bbc.in/4yl7lNX

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Chris Costello @ChrisCostello_ Oct 8

Schools across NLC are involved in a new Smart Spending Challenge designed to help children develop key money management skills.

As Convener of Tackling Poverty I stopped by St Brigid’s in Newmains to see it in action. It’s never too early to start learning how to spend wisely!

Chris Costello @ChrisCostello_ Sep 22

This is the SNP all over.

The public aren’t interested in meaningless restructure if it doesn’t deliver a fundamental change to how services are funded and delivered.

This proposal should be called out for what it is, a distraction from the SNP’s failure to fund Councils.

Chris McCall @Dennynews Sep 22

Jenny Gilruth suggests the Scottish Government intends to devolve precisely zero new powers to councils after they are forced to merge.

Centralisation and aggressive cost-cutting is the agenda here.
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Chris Costello @ChrisCostello_ Sep 21

Councillors aren’t averse to change but this proposal lacks substance, will centralise power further and cost the taxpayer a fortune.

People want their services funded and delivered properly.

This is an SNP attempt to cover for their destruction of the City of Glasgow.

@GinaDavidson @ginadavidsonlbc Sep 21

Scottish Government want Scotland's 32 councils radically redrawn - an "opening proposition" would see 6 to 10 strategic regional authorities and 120-160 community authorities focused on local decision-making.
Proposal is here:
gov.scot/publications/p…
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Chris Costello @ChrisCostello_ Jun 15

A positive day speaking to the people of Makerfield.

Lots of postal votes already sent and many planning to vote @andy4makerfield on Thursday🌹