Title: John Clancy (Labour politician)
Content:  John Clancy is the former political leader (2015–2017) of the largest local authority in Europe, Birmingham City Council, and is a visiting professor at Birmingham City University Business School, in the U.K.'s second largest city, Birmingham. He is a qualified solicitor. He is an expert on public sector pension funds and hyper-local data and researches these areas in particular at Birmingham City University. As political leader of Birmingham, he was in charge of an annual revenue budget of over £3 billion, and assets of over £6 billion.
Title: John Clancy (Labour politician)
Content:  to settle, apparently vindicating Clancy’s position, when the union succeeded in winning an injunction prior to full trial. He remained on Birmingham City Council as councillor for Quinton until March 2020. Clancy is from Stockport, Greater Manchester, but lived in Birmingham for 30 years, from 1990 until 2020. He graduated from the University of Keele in Law and English. His career has included stints as a teacher, visiting lecturer at University of Birmingham Business School and solicitor. He was also a columnist for the Birmingham Post until 2015. He is married to a former assistant principal of a Black Country comprehensive school, and they have one daughter. Clancy moved away from Birmingham in 2020 and now lives in North Wales.
Title: John Clancy (Labour politician)
Content:  He co-authored Blogs from the Blackstuff – The case for rewiring the economy (2010) with Professor David Bailey. He has written widely in the media on regional economic development. Clancy is a former corporate lawyer, having worked as a solicitor at Lee Crowder in Birmingham in the 1990s. He was a councillor for the city's Hodge Hill ward from 2002 to 2006, and was elected to represent Quinton in May 2011. Clancy stepped down as leader during a labour dispute at the council when a deal he had prepared to end a refuse collection strike was prevented from being implemented. The deal was later implemented after a court case was brought by the union, which the new council administration was 
Title: John Clancy (Labour politician)
Content:  Shortly after he became council leader, Clancy was responsible for the decision voluntarily to move the failing Children’s Services department at Birmingham City Council into an external trust in May 2016. After being judged as failing in successive government inspections since 2008, he said there had been "some progress" but it was "not sufficient enough for us all to be satisfied children are safe in this city". However, Mr Clancy said it was still a facing a "huge challenge". Speaking at the time Clancy remarked of the challenge that it was “the biggest challenge in [British] politics, certainly in local government terms.” Apparently vindicating Clancy’s decision, three years later, the services were finally judged no longer to be inadequate. The Children’s minister at the time Nadhim Zahawi described Ofsted's judgment as "a significant milestone". During Clancy’s leadership period there were no deaths to children in care at the council due to neglect.
Title: John Clancy (Labour politician)
Content:  He identified the most pressing challenge facing Birmingham to be its lack of housing to meet a fast-growing, young population and the poor quality of much of the social housing which was existing. He proposed bringing in the council’s and other wealth from global capital into meeting the need to kickstart a massive house building programme and building council houses at a scale not seen since the 1960s. Clancy led a number of overseas trade missions to sidestep U.K. and Government funding shortfalls to fund house-building and economic regeneration. In particular he signed a £2 billion agreement for investment in housing in the city with Guangdong-based developer Country Garden during his week-long trade mission to China.
Title: Mike Clancy (trade unionist)
Content:  Mike Clancy is a British trade union leader. Clancy grew up in Liverpool and studied law before pursuing a career in industrial relations. He undertook further study at the University of Warwick, then became a researcher at the Clearing Bank Union. He then became a negotiator for the union, before in 1989 becoming an area secretary for the Engineers' and Managers' Association. He later became a national officer for the union, with time out in 2000 to complete an MBA at Cranfield University. In 2001, the EMA merged into the new Prospect, with Clancy remaining a national officer until 2004, when he was elected as deputy general secretary. He was elected as general secretary in 2012, also winning a seat on the General Council of the Trades Union Congress. In 2016, he was also appointed to the council of ACAS, and from 2017 he sat on the Nuclear Industry Council.
Title: John Clancy (Labour politician)
Content:  He was particularly known for re-introducing to the U.K. the local authority funding method of Municipal Bonds for House building. These bonds in Birmingham were known as ‘Brummie Bonds”. In 2017 the City Council issued £45 million in Brummie Bonds. Clancy espoused the concept of Municipal Socialism, with a nod to Birmingham’s Joseph Chamberlain, where a local council becomes an active economic actor in the local economy, rather than being a passive deliverer of services and welfare. The concept being that by putting the £6 billion of assets and spending power of the City Council, and its presence as an anchor institution of the city, into economic development, the critical welfare services of the city (and reliance on government funding) would be needed much less. The Brummie Bonds issue was a significant part of the process. Clancy saw this as a part of a wider process of rewiring new local economic pathways and what he referred to as “confident acts of local economic self-determination”.
Title: J. J. Clancy (North County Dublin MP)
Content:  John Joseph Clancy (15 July 1847 – 25 November 1928), usually known as J. J. Clancy, was an Irish nationalist politician and Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons for North County Dublin from 1885 to 1918. He was one of the leaders of the later Irish Home Rule movement and promoter of the Housing of the Working Classes (Ireland) Act 1908, known as the Clancy Act. Called to the Irish Bar in 1887 he became a KC (King's Counsel) in 1906.
Title: James Clunie
Content:  James Clunie (20 March 1889 – 25 February 1974) was a British Labour Party politician. Born in Lower Largo, Clunie worked as a house painter and decorator. He joined the Scottish Painters' Society, serving on its executive, and also came to chair Dunfermline Trades Council. From 1933 until 1950, he served on Dunfermline Town Council. In 1950, he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Dunfermline Burghs, serving until his retirement in 1959.
Title: John T. Clancy
Content:  John Thomas Clancy (April 11, 1903 – May 14, 1985 ), also known by his nickname Pat Clancy, was a lawyer, Democratic politician and surrogate judge from Queens, New York City.

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