tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post2046628028927744164..comments2024-01-30T07:41:20.885+00:00Comments on Broken Barnet: The disappearing council: and a place where people live - a week in Broken BarnetMrs Angryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00586223909475832791noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-23458010086887614192014-12-06T18:22:17.780+00:002014-12-06T18:22:17.780+00:00Hmm, Anonymous #2. I think they will take a gamble...Hmm, Anonymous #2. I think they will take a gamble on which libraries they think they can destroy, either by total closure, or slashing staff/hours. I say they think, because like you I believe this is far too unpredictable, and reveals the stupidity of their own half baked proposals, in the impact it will have on their own electoral support in the GE, as well as locally. And of course at any time there could be a by election which would, with a background of library cuts, leave them fatally exposed to loss of the council. Serves them bloody well right. <br /><br />I had a most amusing and informative morning at the Golders Green nonsultation event, which will be the subject of the next post, if I can summon up the will.Mrs Angryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00586223909475832791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-65185437655614099552014-12-06T09:43:54.691+00:002014-12-06T09:43:54.691+00:00Ah but Mrs A - what do Barnet Tories consider to b...Ah but Mrs A - what do Barnet Tories consider to be 'their' library branches? Do they close East Barnet and Osidge libraries assuming they have lost those wards forever? <br />And how will they justify closure of others in some Labour wards? Closure of East Finchley will reap the whirlwind of the vociferous local user group as well as incurring the wrath of potential Tory voters it being on the cusp of Hampstead Garden Suburb - the late unlamented cllr Rams found out the dangers of closing libraries in HGS.<br />Justifying the closure of Burnt Oak may yet incur judicial challenges. At the nonsultation there the independent when quizzed about why the library was selected for closure rifled through his papers. He couldn't say why but said those selected for remaining open were based on being at a transport hub and on economic need. The incredulous audience forcefully pointed out the tube station next door, the 6 bus routes that pass the door and the inconvenient truth that Burnt Oak is the most deprived ward in the borough.<br />Clearly Cllr Tombstone hasn't realised what he has let himself in for and has left his consultants cruelly exposed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-40998624153755191602014-12-05T22:48:37.526+00:002014-12-05T22:48:37.526+00:00There are as many explanations as there are counci...There are as many explanations as there are councillors, Anon. But most of the Tory members do it because they have a need to enforce their own sense of status, and because of the allowance, and the free buffets. Others think - ha ha - it will be the launch of a brilliant career in politics. The vast majority of them, in my view, should be ashamed of themselves, and remember their colleague, Cllr Sussman, who more properly saw his role of one of civic duty, and never took a penny of any allowance in the many years in which he served the community.Mrs Angryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00586223909475832791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-12559987982449485322014-12-05T22:16:47.751+00:002014-12-05T22:16:47.751+00:00Mrs A . We have in this Borough the finest council...Mrs A . We have in this Borough the finest councillors Money can Buy . How else can you Explain the decisions that this council have taken !!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com