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Doing the right things in the wrong order

A council, or indeed a government, needs to have a both a sense of direction and stability – and Liverpool currently lacks both, says Cllr Richard Kemp. The City now needs to do three things, he adds.

In Liverpool we are doing the right things in the wrong order

Do you remember that incredibly funny sketch in a Morecambe and Wise programme with Andre Previn? Previn claimed that Eric was playing the wrong notes. Ernie defended his mate by pointing out that he was playing the right notes but not necessarily in the right order. That is what Liverpool seems to be like to me today.

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