Family Friendly Labour - Never on a Friday Night
Our leaders have followed their massive pay hikes by adopting new 'family friendly' policies - the Cabinet Member for Housing has taken an enthusiastic lead by telling the Lambeth Tenants Council that he couldn't attend their most important meeting of the year because Friday was 'family night.' It rather begs the question as to why everyone else had to turn out on a wet January night - perhaps they don't have families' - but our masters often tell us 'do as I say, not do as I do.'
As forecast, our long suffering citizens are in for a 'double dunning' in the Spring with parking permits for residents living around commuter stations rising by nearly 100 per cent to GB pounds 115. This 'stand and deliver' strategy has already been described by many residents as 'highway robbery' especially as it's disguised in the fig leaf of 'green policies.' Although gas guzzlers will pay more in controlled parking areas, most people with bigger vehicles live in areas where there is either no controlled parking zone or abundant off street parking.
If the Cabinet Member for Housing was instantly unpopular for ducking out of a showdown with tenants over proposed rent rises, the Cabinet Member for the Environment was at least blessed with a rush of blood to the head and had an honest moment or rather a 'Ratner Moment.' Talking to what will be described as an 'informed source' to protect the innocent she admitted that it was fairly breathtaking to increase the charges at Lambeth's leisure centres by 25 per cent. The Ratner link? Although widely regarded as 'tacky', the Ratner shops and their wares were nevertheless extremely popular with the public, until Gerald Ratner made a speech at the Institute of Directors in April 1991 describing them as 'crap.' You've guessed it the unlucky Cabinet member described Lambeth Council's leisure centres as 'crap.' That will go down very well with the people who work there, one of whom reads this blog.
As forecast, our long suffering citizens are in for a 'double dunning' in the Spring with parking permits for residents living around commuter stations rising by nearly 100 per cent to GB pounds 115. This 'stand and deliver' strategy has already been described by many residents as 'highway robbery' especially as it's disguised in the fig leaf of 'green policies.' Although gas guzzlers will pay more in controlled parking areas, most people with bigger vehicles live in areas where there is either no controlled parking zone or abundant off street parking.
If the Cabinet Member for Housing was instantly unpopular for ducking out of a showdown with tenants over proposed rent rises, the Cabinet Member for the Environment was at least blessed with a rush of blood to the head and had an honest moment or rather a 'Ratner Moment.' Talking to what will be described as an 'informed source' to protect the innocent she admitted that it was fairly breathtaking to increase the charges at Lambeth's leisure centres by 25 per cent. The Ratner link? Although widely regarded as 'tacky', the Ratner shops and their wares were nevertheless extremely popular with the public, until Gerald Ratner made a speech at the Institute of Directors in April 1991 describing them as 'crap.' You've guessed it the unlucky Cabinet member described Lambeth Council's leisure centres as 'crap.' That will go down very well with the people who work there, one of whom reads this blog.
Labels: Leisure centres, Parking permits, Tenants Council
posted by Cllr John Whelan on Saturday, January 06, 2007
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