Time for the Barnet Tories to get a new leader as well!

 Back in 2011, I made a video of outsourcing expert Professor Dexter Whitfield addressing a meeting of the Barnet Alliance for Public Services. He explained how the One Barnet Outsourcing strategy was a high risk strategy and how private companies did not understand the concept of public services. John Dix (aka Mr Reasonable), in his most recent blog HIGHLIGHTED JUST HOW TRUE THIS STATEMENT WAS. 

Given the complete cock up that was One Barnet under the Barnet Tories, you may have thought a period of silence from the former leader of the Council Daniel Thomas would be sensible. Sadly Mr Thomas has been spouting off to the local paper, making the simply outrageous statement 

“During this cost-of-living crisis, the people of Barnet should have an administration committed to protecting their money.”

Barnet Council has nearly been destroyed by the Barnet Tories. This didn't just happen overnight. They systematically did it from 2006, when Mike Freer, now MP for Finchley deposed former Tory Leader Brian Salinger shortly after Salinger won the Council elections.Freer tore up Salingers manifesto and brought in a massive lurch to the right. Unlike Liz Truss, this bonkers right wing ideology took sixteen years to push the cart over the cliff. It took the best part of eight years for the Tories actually get the One Barnet project up and rolling. It took another eight years for it to unravel. 

Myself and other local bloggers such as Mr Reasonable chronicled the whole sorry debacle. Try as he may, Councillor Daniel Thomas cannot hide from the truth. He failed his party in allowing this to continue under his term. He failed the taxpayers of Barnet. Worst of all he has completely refused to face up to the cock up he presided over.

Nationally, the Tories have elected a new leader to take them forward from the chaos of Boris and Truss. It is high time that the Barnet Tories brought out a new broom and moved away from their own version of Trussenomics and the failed leaders who inflicted it on Barnet.  The only words I want to hear from Thomas is an apology for the fiasco he presided over.

Here's a short video of Dr Whitfield predicting the mess that Thomas and his crew would inflict.

 

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