tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post5898445549662940956..comments2024-01-30T07:41:20.885+00:00Comments on Broken Barnet: A Mid Course Correction, or: Communicating the Journey We Are On - the Barnet Crapita contract, and a three year 'review':Mrs Angryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00586223909475832791noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-67023301158937360672016-11-21T14:56:51.323+00:002016-11-21T14:56:51.323+00:00We in the London Borough of Brent welcome refugees...We in the London Borough of Brent welcome refugees from Barnet - and the rest of the world!<br /><br />Visit regenerated Wembley tonight, for the council chamber debate about the "West London Alliance" of boroughs. Unfortunately Barnet has recently joined it.<br /><br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-90303942350482439102016-11-18T07:22:49.886+00:002016-11-18T07:22:49.886+00:00Sadly I don't have much faith in a Labour admi...Sadly I don't have much faith in a Labour administration making much difference on 2 counts. <br />1)The mess the council is now in should have provided a field day for a vibrant opposition but witness the fiasco that is the library restructure. When it came to voting on this in the chamber too many Labour councillors had apologised for absence scuppering any chance of stopping it in it's tracks<br />2)Because of the dim Tory councillors failure to read the contract and put in the necessary safeguards, many of the outsourced services have been shipped out to other parts of the country - e.g. HR to Belfast, IT to Sheffield - making bringing stuff back in house nigh impossible.<br />The only sensible way to vote now would be with feet - i.e. move out of Barnet!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-10391829512100119632016-11-17T18:38:47.860+00:002016-11-17T18:38:47.860+00:00I don't think whichever Mayor that was had any...I don't think whichever Mayor that was had any choice: they were determined to take the opportunity to advertise the fact that Barnet was using their wonderful, crime busting, surveillance service. Wonder what happened to them?Mrs Angryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00586223909475832791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-36520638332006705242016-11-17T17:16:08.344+00:002016-11-17T17:16:08.344+00:00Ah, councillor Finn was the Mayor of Barnet who in...Ah, councillor Finn was the Mayor of Barnet who insisted in driving around the borough in Barnet's limo, sandwiched between two Metpro security vehicles, was he not?baarnetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12301292285255035403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-44236127556359093852016-11-17T16:56:34.095+00:002016-11-17T16:56:34.095+00:00There is hope, Mrs Crazy, if the people of Broken ...There is hope, Mrs Crazy, if the people of Broken Barnet stop voting for these idiots, and we have a Labour administration which might, just might, pull the plug on the contracts, as other authorities have done.<br /><br />In the meanwhile, to make you feel even worse, I have just added a bit about the level of agency and consultant fees, just so we all remember how much is being wasted on this expenditure, as a direct result of mass outsourcing, and cutting in house staff - and which also earns Capita more lovely gainshare profits.Mrs Angryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00586223909475832791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6371203489316363738.post-44725076321459429492016-11-17T15:15:54.708+00:002016-11-17T15:15:54.708+00:00I didn't think "Read it and weep" wa...I didn't think "Read it and weep" was a real thing that people did but today I proved myself very, very wrong.<br /><br />7 more years, you say?<br /><br />(sobs uncontrollably)Mrs Crazynoreply@blogger.com