Comments for Cllr. Steve Cooke

Comment on Homophobia by Steve

Steve — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 08:30:32 +0000

Pre-caffeine sausage fingers! Thanks

Comment on Homophobia by Dave Page

Dave Page — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 08:01:33 +0000

Hi Steve,

You might want to fix the typo in the subject line

Comment on Did David Laws do wrong – a moral philosopher’s perspective. by Steve

Steve — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:21:12 +0000

Very true – caught in two catch 22 situations.

The change in expenses rules meant that anyone who was in a gay relationship and did not want their sexuality to be splashed all over the homophobic tabloids, or affect their family life, was effectively prevented from claiming for housing, which strikes me as wrong.

Comment on Did David Laws do wrong – a moral philosopher’s perspective. by Dave Page

Dave Page — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:48:58 +0000

There’s also the consideration in your penultimate paragraph that had David suddenly stopped claiming the allowance when the rules on partners changed, it would have looked very suspicious and run the risk of violating his privacy…

Comment on CCTV on the Valley estate by Richard Carvath

Richard Carvath — Wed, 19 May 2010 15:09:13 +0000

I was in the public gallery and I’d have loved to have filmed a few moments from today’s full council and broadcast them on the web. It would be a real eyeopener to many members of the public to see just how good and how bad the contributions from various councillors really are.

Comment on CCTV on the Valley estate by Steve

Steve — Tue, 18 May 2010 21:43:46 +0000

The Lib Dem group has put forward the suggestion to the constitutional review – we shall see if it gets taken up.

Comment on CCTV on the Valley estate by Richard Carvath

Richard Carvath — Tue, 18 May 2010 21:08:10 +0000

Well, despite my reservations I sincerely hope that the CCTV does prove to be a helpful development on the Valley estate.
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What chance of seeing camera recording in the council chamber some time soon? It’d be good to see a few highlights from full council find their way on to YouTube; the public would no doubt find it interesting and informative to see some of what goes on and I think the extra scrutiny would be a welcome move.

Comment on CCTV on the Valley estate by Steve

Steve — Tue, 18 May 2010 19:41:12 +0000

With the greatest of respect Richard – I live on the Valley, I’ve spoken to the residents who live where this camera is going, and I’ve spoken with the police. All of us are united in wanting this, and believing that it, alongside all the other intervention work being done, has a real chance of making people’s lives better. The value of CCTV is entirely dependent upon the context within which it is being used. I know for a fact that the local criminal element are very unhappy about the prospect of this camera, whilst some of the residents are incredibly relieved – that alone is enough to tell me it’s the right thing to do.

Comment on CCTV on the Valley estate by Richard Carvath

Richard Carvath — Tue, 18 May 2010 19:01:30 +0000

I’m all in favour of preventing and detecting crime but I suspect that the CCTV on the Valley will not be as useful as might be hoped.

CCTV cannot prevent crime – it can only observe it; the deterrent potential of CCTV is weak and even if it does deter in one location it probably only displaces the criminal activity elsewhere.

Hardcore criminals and yobs are little bothered by CCTV – particularly if they’re away from their immediate home turf… hoods up, no problem.

The recent criminal damage to the muslims’ building in Eccles was caught on CCTV and so the presence of CCTV clearly failed to serve as a deterrent.

CCTV has limited usefulness as a potential means by which to identify suspects (and thus also as a source of evidence) but CCTV does little to prevent criminal activity.

I think that to present CCTV to Valley residents as somehow ‘making them safer’ is to be in danger of misleading the public.

Furthermore, in a residential area, CCTV is intrusive upon the privacy of the many good residents who would probably rather not be spied upon by public sector agencies.

Comment on Independent pulls out of race by Roger Berry

Roger Berry — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:09:21 +0000

Ok then but two final points for you to consider Richard,

I don’t HAVE to reveal anything if I CHOOSE to I will if I didn’t it would be just as easy to send everything to the people that they would be of interest to without doing so or even doing so to them just not to you.

When I say your insignificant I mean (as I have told you before but you just can’t get it into your head) is politically and personally you are insignificant but socially you have a limited significance and psychologically your very interesting but then again is David Icke.