Roger (Rog T -- The Barnet Eye) your comments on Councillor Rams do you credit, he is
insisting he was at Mill Hill Library when it is abundantly clear he was not ,
and if he was as he insists let him produce the footage to prove he was there.
His distortions of your comments add further to his lack of
credibility and his inability to speak the truth, and questions whether he is a fit and proper
person to hold public office.
Like most Barnet Tory councillors Rams appears to thinks he
is only there to represent the haves and appears to be convinced that everybody
with a few bob or votes Tory, hates the poor the vulnerable the disabled and
the unemployed. To the likes of him and your mate Cornelius ( sorry but he is
equally guilty ) and the bully boy
Coleman no doubt a council house is an
asset. However to the tenant of that
council house it is a home where they bring up their children where all their
memories both good and bad and ugly reside, where they until now have been
allowed to reside until death in some dignity.
For Rams and co to crow about the fact elderly people will
be evicted from what they consider to be there home in the future and no doubt
dumped in a noisy flat somewhere, again no doubt where the suitability of which will not be a
consideration is truly sick. It is truly despicable it exposes Rams for the
complete inhuman little rat he comes across to me as, which was exposed by his
behaviour at the council meeting on Tuesday in the clip shown on your blog.
If the One Barnet Billion Pound Gamble is such a good idea
why did neither Rams or any of his motley crew attend the One Barnet Conference
last Saturday to challenge the experts such as Andy Mudd from APSE who are
offering viable alternatives to make his or their case. A company respected by
councils of all political colours across the country, but denigrated by the
apparently brain-dead Rams on twitter. Or listen to the words of warning and
wisdom from Professor Dexter Whitfield
or local resident John Dix both of whom
have forgotten more about outsourcing and commissioning than Rams and his
motley crew will ever understand, and
they care about Barnet residents John is
a Barnet resident . Unlike the highly paid consultants recommending this One
Barnet Billion Pound Gamble , who have their own agenda.
For Rams to hide on twitter advertising his contempt for the
council house tenants and for experts in the field of outsourcing and
commissioning , indeed all the public services in Barnet exposes him and his
group for what they are. Spineless Ideologues
driven by ideology dogma and greed , with an inbuilt contempt and hatred
for the poor the vulnerable the weak and the disabled. Rams and co can hold
these people in contempt for as long as they wish, however they will never
enjoy the level of contempt for them that they hold for him and his crew, a
contempt that is growing by the hour. The recent election results show that the
people of Barnet are waking up to the incompetence of Rams and the whole Barnet
council. They are slowly but surely waking up to the fact that their interests
are not best protected by the One Barnet Billion Pound Gamble. As the Brunswick
Park result showed, that was leafleted by Baps to bring to the attention of the
Brunswick Park residents the risks of
the One Barnet Billion Pound Gamble.
It is time the likes of Rams, Cornelius, Coleman, Davey and
the rest of that motley crew started representing the best interests of all of
the people of Barnet , rather than the vested interests of big companies that
wish to privatise our public services for profit.
Cllr Cornelius claimed in The Press last week " at no
time will there be any loss of democratic control ", which is utter
nonsense, these commissioning contracts will be for a minimum of 10 years
making interference by councillors practically impossible. Coupled with the
fact a part of the commissioning
programme includes dispensing with in house experts and workers, making
demands of the private companies a futile exercise. He says " any
alternative budgeting would mean draconian cuts in services " which is blatantly untrue. He refuses to
consider or even acknowledge the alternatives being presented by APSE and
Professor Whitfield, which to say the least is bordering on blatant lies. He
says " three quarters of all our cuts will be from doing things
smarter" ," Our responsibility is to the taxpayer ".
As we know the majority of the weak the sick the vulnerable
the disabled the infirm and the unemployed are not taxpayers much as they would
like to be, but at least Cornelius is being honest when he says he does not
represent as councillor Coleman would describe them " THESE PEOPLE ".
He implies that the private companies are 75% more efficient than in house services
which is complete and utter nonsense, as he would have learned had he taken the
time and trouble to attend the Baps conference last Saturday. Furthermore the
recent experiences of Barnet council outsourcing proves beyond any reasonable
doubt that Outsourcing or even worse Commissioning of public services has
nowhere near proven to be 75 % more efficient that in house services .
Therefore on the basis of the facts and figures Cornelius is misleading the
people of Barnet on these three points along with his fellow supporters of the
One Barnet Billion Pound Gamble ". The question that bothers me is, "
why " why are they lying to us, what is in it for them, "why"
are they spending millions of pounds on consultants to privatise public services,
when those millions could be spent on improving in house services and there
levels of efficiency.
The One Barnet programme is as has been stated by
outsourcing consultant and Barnet resident John Dix and others "A ONE
BILLION POUND GAMBLE " and the people of Barnet along with
Cornelius and his motley crew need to wake up to that fact, and stop this
lunacy before it is to late.
Barnet Alliance for
Public Services have had little time to prepare their forthcoming "Our Barnet" not " One Barnet
" torch parade on Saturday week the 21st July, But no matter the turnout
at such short notice, it will help to focus the attention of the residents of
Barnet onto this " One Billion Pound Gamble " with their public
services, and I hope all those who have taken the time to read this article
will join us on the march and encourage their family and friends to do so.
Once again thanks Roger for exposing yet another dodgy Tory
Barnet councillor in the form of Rams, but are you sure you are still on the
right side of things by continuing to be nice to Cornelius, after his misleading comments to
The Press last week ?, and I am advised also
to the courageous Helen Michaels ?
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John Sullivan is a carer and a Barnet Resident. The Barnet Eye is always happy to carry guest blogs (unlike certain other local blogs Robert), even when they criticise us. Please submit via the link in the side bar. Guest blogs are posted without editorial comment.
