tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post5816804377347519224..comments2024-01-30T07:41:20.885+00:00Comments on Broken Barnet: Banquet of the SenselessMrs Angryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00586223909475832791noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-4581225209446812162011-01-18T16:04:38.463+00:002011-01-18T16:04:38.463+00:00I absolutely agree with you: I must say I really w...I absolutely agree with you: I must say I really was utterly sickened to see such callous bureaucratic consideration given to what is so self evidently a deeply sensitive issue. I think it tells you all you need to know about this Tory council, whose leaders are so short of compassion and any instinct other than their own petty, self serving, ugly political motives.Mrs Angryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00586223909475832791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-81413495876782138662011-01-18T15:13:48.263+00:002011-01-18T15:13:48.263+00:00The hike in children and infant burial rates was f...The hike in children and infant burial rates was first attempted when Mike Freer was leader. The council tried to increase charges by 10%. Freer explained that the officer had not consulted with the cabinet member responsible (your friend Brian Coleman) before the report was published. The possibility that Coleman had simply not read his papers was clearly not considered by Freer. In the end the charges were still increased, but ‘only’ by about 6% or 7%.<br /><br />I accept the need for some services to be cut and other charges to be raised, but has Barnet Council no humanity? No doubt some highly paid actuary sat down and estimated how many babies will die in Barnet in the next 12 months. Who on earth can think this type of behaviour acceptable in modern society? <br /><br />The council is exploiting the reality that grieving parents are in no position to argue. Far easier to clobber these people with higher charges, than put up the cost of a service used by informed articulate residents who can fight back.<br /><br />A plague on whoever proposed this.Don't Call Me Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13602899129846028170noreply@blogger.com