Thursday, 22 July 2010

If you do one thing today .....

Please sing this petition to tell the greedy Tory Councillors of Barnet what you think of them awarding themselves a huge payrise.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/barnetcouncilpayrises/

All you need to do is enter your name and email.  I urge everyone of every political persuasion in Barnet to sign up.

6 comments:

  1. Mr Reasonable22 July 2010 at 11:22

    Roger, I am sure you have seen it already but today the council have released a paper (delegates power report) showing that they are writing off £203,082.83 of over paid housing benefit they have failed to recover. It add to your long list of council **** ups.

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  2. Duncan Macdonald22 July 2010 at 11:25

    The Times group are also running a petition.

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  3. Moaneybat22 July 2010 at 12:19

    Housing Benefit eh, Well that is an issue for the Department for Work & Pensions Minister to ask why the local authority who administer housing benefit,(wrong body to do so in my opinion) is writing off taxpayers money.

    The administration of HB should have remained with what is now the DWP. However when much of it is outsourced to 3rd party employess in Belfast offices of overseas firms, worse could hapopen

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  4. Moaneybat22 July 2010 at 12:30

    Duncan,
    I have not seen any of the Labour and LibDem Councillors signatures to Johhny on the Web's ipetition.I really do wonder why?

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  5. baarnett22 July 2010 at 12:57

    I see the Brent Cross Coalition has put a copy of the Cabinet's 'AllowanceGate' comments on its web site, taken from the Times's front page.

    I am keeping a printout for future reference!

    I suppose it divides the members of the Cabinet into two groups:

    The GREEDY - justifying the rises, and made up of the usual suspects, and

    The REHABILITATABLE - keeping out of the way of the press, or in the case of Sachin Rajput, saying something completely meaningless.

    I had to check the spelling of that long word above; it means "to restore to good health or useful life, as through therapy and education." Yes, that's about right - let's educate them. The Conservative Party manifesto and Coalition's policy guidelines would not be bad places to start.

    I've also still not heard Theresa Villiers's OPINIONS on 'AllowanceGate'. Her 'statement' says nothing at all.

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  6. Duncan Macdonald23 July 2010 at 20:54

    Moaneybrat

    I suspect they haven't done so as it would potentially tie their hands at council meetings as they would have to declare a prejudicial interest

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