Propaganda Priorities
The Peoples’ Republic of Lambeth seem to have their priorities right:
No cut in the advertising budget then…
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Tom Harris bemoans the public’s attitude to politicians…
“Mr Oborne echoes the lazy, anti-politics whine we hear so often these days, all based on the absurd notion that politicians were once loved and only fell out of public favour during the expenses scandal. He should take a walk to the Strangers’ Bar. But not to sup with the patrons he seems to despise so much, dearie me, no; he should instead look at the paintings on the corridor outside the bar, which depict the devastating fire which consumed most of the Palace in 1834. And he should reflect on the fact that on that dramatic night, as the Commons went up in flames, a crowd gathered on the South Bank to clap and cheer.”
Focus group time. says:
The thing that Dave needs to work out is which group is more likely to vote Conservative. Mad swivel-eyed loons or mad homosexuals wishing to get married.
Waste alert.
how many pilgrims do they employ?
They should all be dong the walk to the dole office
Everything free and easy
Do as ya damn well pleasey
Why don’tcha make yer way there
Go there, stay there?
Guido, your campaigning is needed – can you not contact the Audit Commission [waste of public money] and/or the Advertising Standards Authority [false figures]?
They have a large staff of ‘climate change advisers’. However, they manage to save a bit of money by employing mainly illegal immigrants as traffic wardens (or ‘civil enforcement officers’ as they are savagely called now to make them seem even nastier).
Agree. And given that the ‘Services’ are probably in pseudy name only, cut the lot. – Good riddance!
Yeah! Check for illegals in those ‘civil enforcement officers’. They’re ALL over London not just Lambeth.
Anyone know what the secret trial of 47 men in Liverpool is about?
Seems to be a British press blackout.
Shit a brick! How many more of these trials are happening? When will the elite get the message that Mohammeds followers all wish us harm?
Our children are being raped you liberal bastards!
You’ve got the other kind of liberal here. Easy mistake. No harm done.
Labourlost is thattway —>
See this…. http://casualsunited.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/liverpool-crown-court-muslim-grooming-gang-trial-update/
Don’t know and don’t care . There’re are more important things to worrry about like one footballer calling another footballer a name (allegedly).
Yours
Santimonious, priggish, hypocritical, MSM.
http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/1431B482-D3CC-4CF7-9007-9A993A85F286/0/BudgetBook201112.pdf
Page 12 – Government central grant:
2010/11 – £213.9m
2011/12 – £220.8m +3.2%
However Lambeth, through some fiscal magic, makes this into a 2011/12 grant of £193.8m (a reduction of £20.1m); plus because they couldn’t understand a “new concept” of ‘revenue spending power’ they missed out on ADDITIONAL government grants.
Can anyone explain how they go from an increase of 3.2% to a cut of 28%?
Seems this should go to the Advertising Standards Authority!
Simple, they just tell fucking lies, most labour voters are too thick to understand finance
Someone put up the same poster, but reading thus:
“Lambeth pisses your money up the wall….so we are forced to cut services.”
I’m sure someone can think of a snappier wording, but you get my drift.
PS From Steve Reed’s blog:
“Last week I was very proud to officially open Lambeth’s first new leisure centre for 30 years.
The fact that we’ve been able to build a brand new community leisure centre at the height of the country’s economic problems is a huge achievement and I hope local residents make full use of all the excellent facilities on offer.”
Not down to their last crust then? Or has Lambeth, like all good socialists authorities, run out of other people’s money?
And:
“Since May 2006 Lambeth has seen its performance improve from a 1 to a 3 star authority and we have just elected our second Youth Mayor giving young people a strong voice and a better say on how services are developed. We’ve also seen the opening of award-winning new schools, including the first parent promoted school in the UK. This year council tax has been frozen to help local people through the economic downturn.”
All sounds pretty hunky-dorey to me…and no suggestion of any cash shortage either. Let us hope that the memory of Clay Cross isn’t yet dead, and that Reed and his cronies are surcharged for squandering taxpayers’ money in this way – and for political ends.
Needs a complaint to the ASA if this is true
Stupid fukin rapper. Watch again – they should be prosecuted for throwing litter.
Lambeth has just wasted thousands on olive trees in Clapham.
They have many pilgrims – see Guido passim.
Lambeth Labour say that Lambeth’s budget has been cut by 30% – but in fact when expressed as a percentage of “total” Lambeth spending, the grant cut is only 3%.
(Only one decimal point amiss – so that’s alright then!!!)
Probably 95% to meet diversity quaota requirements. They should have all returned from Mecca by now though. Don’t forget it’s Burka Friday. tomorrow
Oh to be a Pilgrim in their Ad/PR department.
Barring that, A Git Prop.
Bless ‘em ..
Let me get this straight. One branch of your government has taken out an ad to complaing that another branch is not giving them enough….
It is pretty bad here in Canada, but I have not seen it sink the that level (yet).
btw, what do the references to “pilgrims” mean?
Pilgrims are employees, generally of government funded organisations (of course including the UK National Health Service) who although paid by the taxpayers to do a job of work, actually spend pretty much all their ‘work time’ on Trade Union business. This is of course ridiculous and could only happen in the UK.
Named ‘pilgrims’ by Guido I believe because one of these worthies (seem to remember came to light due to some legal action to get her to do some work) had ‘Pilgirm’ as her last name.
We need more investment
Oooohhhh! – my Hero!
My Anti-hero
May they never meet.
You’d think a Tweet would be cheaper.
We can provide support to Lambeth schools in the following languages:
Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, British Sign Language, Cantonese, Dari, Ewe, Farsi, French, Greek, Gujarati, Hakka, Hindi, Italian, Kikongo, Kurdish-Kirmanji, Lingala, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Sylheti, Tigrinya, Turkish, Urdu and Wolof.
http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/Services/EducationLearning/SchoolsColleges/InterpretingTranslation.htm
Good point.
How many Lambeth residents will be able to understand the poster?
No problem we have ordered up multiple versions of these posters in each of the languages you list. Money well spent Im sure you will agree.
You want to follow our example in Portsmouth, Lambeth, then you wouldn’t have to make any cuts. Mass immigration into the city, triggering big grants from central government, huge housing development by my boys to house them. As a consequence lots of moolah to go around, including political donations and backhanders. Everyone is a winner, council officers, LibDems, my boys and most importantly, me. Boaz.
Have you been to Lambeth? It’s basically one big housing estate crammed full of Thirdies.
“The Interpreting and Translation Service (ITS) is part of the Ethnic Minority Achievement Team.”
Do they have any idea how pissboilingly annoying this shit is to ordinary working people? Then they whinge the working class is not engaged in politics.
+100
.htebmaL no thgiR
.sdrawkcab m’I taht sseug I ,tol uoy ekiL
.sreknaW
WTF is ‘Wolof’ when it’s at home?
A kind of waloon perhaps? … Brussels small talk? Dunno …
African language. Wolof or Spanish, I don’t see the difference, it’s pissing money up the wall on silly services.
The Wolof are an ethnic group found in Senegal, The Gambia, and Mauritania. In Senegal, the Wolof form an ethnic plurality with about 43.3% of the population are Wolofs
Well that’s enriching to know…but thanks anyway.
It’s wolf seen by Yogi Bear
“Is it my Cousin Chester from Leicester? Nah…is it my Aunt Petunia from Catalunya? Umm-no-o-o…Aahhh– I know who it is…”
It’s a great big dog that looks like a husky.
Wolof = effnick code for: Whole of Lambeth on freebies
Glad to hear you’re the sort of sheep that understands Ewe.
Wing One, Let One Fly
Wot, no Klingon?
They missed English
What! Not German?
Why no Welsh or Scots/Gallic? They are official British languages aren’t they?
Your taxes are up to feed out pensions.
Something you never see on a Council Information sheet.
Perhaps it reveals how much they’ve been wasting on totally unnecessary services and highly paid managers !!
If only we had a Tory Prime Minister to tackle the lefts waste of our money.
If only we had a Conservative Government that was not carrying on with the fiscal lunacy of Gordon McMental.
Heath out.
Vote UKIP.
Yeth, vote UKRAP
The only Conservative Party on the ticket. No brainer.
What do you want us to do – vote for son of Heath?
Vote UKIP – Cameron out.
Yeth Thophie, UKWAP, a bigger blank pieth of bog paper than even my muthings!
Swooning Cameronn trolls – you know that Dave is not a Tory yet persist in this blind tribalism.
Your tribe will not bring that Heathite liar a majority at the next GE – just as he could not deliver a majority against Gordon Brown.
Vote UKIP – destroy Camerons Tories.
And you, ‘Thophie’, are a paper thin skin twibal twoll for UKWAP, or are you on our books..
Gotcha!
Vote UKIP? Vote for that bug eye’d looney Farridge? What a loser. Fuck me Sophie, you need help.
ukip are all nazis and inbreeds
Vote UHunt
That’s not what I typed! I see what you did there Guido!
If? Lord, what are you on, a rose-tinted spliff?
If the Tories were huddled atop of a cliff
Chairman Dave would give them a helpful push
He’s as much use as a bird in a bush
Now he’s threatening women boardroom quotas
Well, won’t that inspire those wet Tory voters
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16958852
Vote for an Independant that supports Direct Democracy, same as the swiss have.
Wonder how much the posters cost the taxpayers?
Will Bill Posters be prosecuted?
Bill Posters must be released and can’t be deported even though he is a danger to everyone except judges in ivory towers.
Bill Stickers is black though, so he’s immune from prosecution.
Perhaps they have their priorities right like Brent, who claim that they are closing libraris because of a cut in their funding. They didn’t complain too much or shut libraries when ZaNooLieBor cut their funding by a third a few years back. (Hat tip Biased BBC).
Here we have the budget requirements for the years 2004-2011:
http://www.brent.gov.uk/councilfinance.nsf/Pages/LBB-8
2004/05 £347,415,000
2005/06 £367,234,000
2006/07 £235,513,000
2007/08 £255,972,000
2009/10 £261,836,000
2010/11 £265,469,000
Steve Reed, another labour tosser that’s good at spending other peoples money.
Labour the party of lies, denial and hypocrisy.
“…good at spending other peoples money.”
Outstanding in fact, and in the true Liebour tradition of frugality.
Everything is wrong according to labour. What is most wrong is labour.
I just did a quick search on the cost of bus stop adverts. They cost around £120 per panel per week for a minimum of 2 weeks. If Lambeth have put up even just 3 panels for the minimum 2 weeks, that’ll be £720. How many school and library books or rubbish collections would that pay for?
Over paid
Talentless
Massive bonuses
Anyone could do the job
Expert tax avoidance
Footballers are the new Bankers
Unless, as seems rather likely, the council get a proportion of the advertising space for free as part of the contract with the companies who provide the advertising hoardings.
But then how could we feign outrage for pageviews
Labour-run Lambeth Council in south London even splashed out on bus stop posters blaming ministers for damaging services, telling locals: “The Government has cut our money so we are forced to cut services.”
The council – which created a logo of a pound sign being cut in half by a pair of scissors – also spent £15,000 on surveys, hiring rooms for public meetings and arranging focus groups asking what residents think of the cutbacks.
“Unless, as seems rather likely, the council get a proportion of the advertising space for free as part of the contract with the companies who provide the advertising hoardings.”
Which would imply the council are receiving a part of the advertising space revenue as free advertising. If they took the revenue as straight cash there’d be more money in the coffers to avoid cuts.
Why do councils have to advertise? It’s not as if they face competition for customers, is it?
“Oh dahling, I always insist on having my car clamped by a marvellous little man from Lambeth Parking Services. Kensington & Chelsea? Oh no,dahling! Soh last century!”
No doubt theve also got a “friendly printer”
‘The Government has cut OUR money by nearly a third’
It’s not ‘your’ money Steve. It’s private sector taxpayer’s money, extorted with menaces of prison.
They will be delighted to hear this news. Try cutting wasteful spending first, rather than the few things people willingly pay for, eh?
Stopping free translation for people with no inclination to learn the lanquage of the land would be a start.
Quite.
No welfare for immigrants until they’ve been here LEGALLY for at least 7 years and are naturalised citizens.
“people with no inclination to learn the lanquage….”
Screwed a Senagalese whore couple weeks ago. Quite adequate English & she’d never been within a thousand miles of the UK.
Incentivisation?
Book your clinic appointment asap.
It has been decided that any public body who does not provide information in every language under the sun is institutionally racist.
Ah, you see those in the council do such a difficult job, they need to make sure people know about it, while making sure they can avoid tax themselves.
I know a few accounts who do councillors taxes, it is amazing what they are hiding. A little off the top and know one knows any different.
How about an FOI on government support in Lambeth, I’m willing to bet it hasn’t been cut by 30%
Report them to the Advertising Standards Authority.
Interestingly the last Annual Report published is for 2008/9 hardly an efficient council.
http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/Services/CouncilDemocracy/CouncilDepartments/FinanceResources/LambethAnnualReport200809.htm
They are also claiming that the government has cut their expenditure by 28% over 4 years. That’s 2 years of labour.
The ‘cuts’ probably reflect the actual number of residents as opposed to those fictitious residents registered for voting purposes.
http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/Services/CouncilDemocracy/CouncilDepartments/FinanceResources/SeniorManagerPayExpenses200910.htm
HOW MANY £50k to £87K???
The budget book 2011/12shows net expenditure is projected to be £9 million, or 3%, up. Is this cuts a la BonkersBrown?
Telford & Wrekin Council have a similar poster – must be a Labour thing.
As in wrekin the economy ?
nothing like getting your agit-prop across to the proles
Heather Mills can’t even get her DVD to work at the Leveson inquiry.
Ha ha fucking ha.
bet she’s hopping mad
Literally laugh out loud! not a good thing when you work in an open plan office.
It’s prothetic.
That stumped her!*
Come on! Someone had to do the gag.
Thought 8illy might have come up with that
I need a man…..
A leg over?.
She hasn’t got a leg to stand on.
Quite right. She wooden stand for it mate.
They’ll cut the essential services first, keeping the higher and upper middle management placemen in situ. They’ll have departments of one or two to manage but they’ll still have their well paid jobs. And when the bins overflow and you can’t find a policeman well it’s ….we did warn you!
Look, – can’t stop – just off to my lunch appointment, – then I’ve got meetings all afternoon – but you’ll miss us when we’re gone.
Gweedo – this certainly seems to have struck a nerve. Best posting for a while.
Loved the comment about advertising.
Comments 7 and 13 go to the heart of the matter.
As the sign’s in English it’ll be wasted on their clients.
there you are you see! … proof that the translation and something or other service IS required!
You have completed their test to prove that Lambeth Socialist Carnsill is RIGHT!
Arry says if you vote for me I will bring the world cup back to lambeth
This made me smile.
From Wilki, entry for Dulwich
Road’http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulwich
‘Harriet Harman MP lives (as Mrs Jack Dromey) in Winterbrook Road’
Harriet as a MRS!
omg
She’s a magnetic resonance scanner.?Blimey, they get everywhere don’t they! Does she come on the NHS?
Does she come at all?
That’s it Lambeth you’ve got the right idea. Cut frontline services and make sure that your councillors, top managers and non-job officers keep getting their £1000s in salaries and expenses.
militwit will be so proud of you!!
Don’t forget the smart council flats (Parker-Morris standards) they get as well.
Why.. on earth.. are they forking out on paid ads?
When there’s ‘free’ message services via PR.
And a uniquely funded £4Bpa version that stands ready, 24/7 to answer the call.
it’s all propaganda, except for an elite few …..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/feb/09/a4e-welfare-to-work-contract
company head gets 87% dividends – welfare to work should be renamed welfare from work
Doh! She owns 87% of the business, that’s why she gets 87% of the dividends.
Ahhh. Government contracts. That’s where the real money is. Which is why there is so much competition to become MPs and councillors. With great patronage comes great kickbacks.
So there we have it, evidence about the failings of the previous Government’s pathways / future jobs fund arrangements.
The Work programme will sort this out.
Margaret Hodge should know this she was Employment Minister in the DWP responsible for setting up some of these failing schemes.
I see that the Chief Executive—Derrick Anderson is making a few cuts of his own (not)
Mr Anderson, who lives in Brixton, earned nearly £216,000 in 2010/11 and including pension contributions cost the council just under £247,000.”
He’s doing a great job, deserves every penny. There are no efficiency savings possible.
Is Lambeth a regular feature in Private Eye’s ‘Rotten Boroughs’? There’s some chap Mohammed Rahman or somesuch who keeps popping up awarding all his cousins, fresh off the flight from Dakar, jobs paying 150K each.
It might not be Lambeth. All those shitty Labour-run London Boroughs look the same to me.
The Islamic Republic of Tower Hamlets, JGM2.
Anyone know what the secret trial of 47 men in Liverpool is about?
Total UK press ban on reporting.
I had no idea there was such a trial ongoing. Are you sure? There’s no mention on the BBC.
OMG!
Unbelievable – I now know I am not living in a free country. Why are we protecting those scumbags?
Deport the lot of them back to any 7th century paradise sandpit that will have them – minus their dicks.
When are we going to get some protection for our kids from these Mus_lim rape gangs?
Because we went down a foul smelling cul de sac about 30 years ago.
Dave’s tried to engage reverse but the synchromesh has gone.
Sounds like a reference to the 47 Liverpool Labour councillors who were barred from office by the District Auditor in the 1980s for profligacy beyond the call of duty with other people’s money. In the Labour party they must be heroes.
They were criminals and should have been imprisoned for fraud and misconduct in public office. Only Banning them was a cop out and negligence on the part of the Police and Prosecutors.
Rotten Boroughs doesn’t focus on any particular coouncil. Reason is they are all rotten.
Hamlets gets its own column in Private Eye being particularly rotten and corrupt. Makes depressing reading.
The open door to the third world, imports third world practices and customs with it.
All so true.
That money spent on advertising could have been used to make the rich richer.
Yawn.
It was.
Ah, Lambeth. I remember when their housing benefit service was so bad they decided to outsource it to Capita. Who were so bad even Lambeth seemed efficient by comparison so they took it back in-house.
I also remember the Lambeth NALGO (a long while ago) branch secretary who was full-time and paid by the council and had been doing it so long he said he had forgotten how to do his real job. Needless to say, he received annual increments and was regularly upgraded in his real job.
Back in the 80′s when i worked for the social Lambeth rent dept were so piss poor that you could have claimants on the social for 6 months and no rent paid because lambeth council had not paid the benefit. tenents would regularly get harrassed for non payment when thier own council had buggered it up.
You’re right will. Things were so bad that whenever a tenant appeared before a court for rent arrears all they had to say was ‘housing benefit delay’ and the judge refused to have them evicted, whether it was true or not.
NALGO = Not a lot going on.
As a matter of interest how much does Steve Reed the Leader of Lambeth Council cost the taxpayer in salaries and expenses etc each year?
I bet he’s not taking a 30% pay cut. Or passing up his bonus.
Bonuses for doin’ nuffin’ are obscene!
String him up! The Capitalist pig!
Whatever it is, it’s 100% too much.
Lambeth has TWO newsletters that offer literary to delight to its inhabitants.
“that offer literary to delight to its inhabitants.” ?????
Looks like youve suffered a 30% reduction in your word allocation shall we just fill in the missing words?
Sunni Delight.
That’s brilliant
Turn out de light.
[a result of the cuts meaning no electric for the OAPs]
Good one. I’ll remember that for use on Cdn sites.
Watch out for the CHR police, gnadige Frau!
stupid waste of money really after all Lambeth will vote Tory / lib dem when the next ice age comes
Looking out of the window it looks like it’s already arrived.
In ten years time children will ask you what snow is
So they had a look at the idea of sharing chief officers or reducing their obscene fat cat salaries, and then thought, “nope, it’s definitely going to have to be care for the elderly”
They can gripe only when they’ve cut their allowances and pensions by1/3rd too; until then shut the **** up.
Looks like Morgan is back in the firing line ( thank you Tom Watson)
These posters cost £60 according to Councillor Stephen Morgan
Each? per week.
That’s just the printing cost…
That advert has been running since 2010.
That part of London is like its own little Glasgow. – No matter what a shithole it is the citizens vote in Labour.
They only have to take the tube two stops to another borough to realise what a crappy dump their own is.
Maybe they like it with all the fridges and sofas piled up on street corners and on the lawns? Maybe abandoned, smashed up cars enhance the image of the place? Perhaps its diversity personified to have parking at £2 / 15 minutes to park on a broken glass strewn highway?
Errr Glasgow voted SNP at the last election
i think you need to try google.
Leader Gordon Brown Alex Salmond Nick Clegg
Party Labour SNP Liberal Democrat
Leader since 24 June 2007 2004 18 December 2007
Last election 7 Seats 0 Seats 0 Seats
Seats before 7 0 0
Seats won 7 0 0
Seat change ±0 ±0 ±0
Popular vote 128,818 39,702 31,403
Percentage 55.98% 17.25% 13.65%
Swing increase11.71% increase2.47% decrease1.84%
F.
That didn’t come out well.
try this from the BBc election coverage 2010.
“These are the results of the United Kingdom general election, 2010 in the city of Glasgow in Scotland. The 2010 General Election was held on May 6, 2010 and all seven constituencies returned Labour Party MP’s”
Did they manage to lose their registers too?
postal voting strikes again!
Im talking about the Scottish elections which were the most recent.
We should all celebrate diversity – it’s so culturally enriching, don’t you think?
And as for those 47 men oop north on trial, I think it is to do with you know what, by you know who with young White non- Muslim girls, but I could be wrong and in any case we are not supposed to know about it let alone talk about it hence the press black-out, all in the cause of social cohesion.
It’s not true Bill. Lambeth has been Labour, Tory, LibDem, coalition. All equally useless.
Just how bad is it in Scotland these days? My 3 Scottish grandparents left for Canada around the turn of the twentieth century (one English grandmother left after WW I). I wonder if Scotland is suffering because all the intelligent people left. Certainly, they are thick on the ground here, although what with intermarriage we are just known as “of European descent”.
The mirage of government cutting money
If it weren’t so daft, it would be funny
And now the Bank’s printing squillions more quids
We ain’t sliding quick enough down those skids
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16963116
The Peoples Republic of Lambeth should be reported to the Race Relations Commission because there is no provision for the Welsh fleeing from Plaid, or the Gaelic-speaking Scots fleeing from the Republic of Caledonia (Prop, El Presidente Fatso Salmond)
More Labour waste.
If you genuinely believe this is misleading, report it to the ASA. A church got taken to task for advertising their miraculous healing powers.
But never has any religious sect been taken to ‘task’ over outrageous claims that the Planet is overseen by a great ruler in the sky that can’t make his mind up whether he is C of E, Catholic, Muslim or a Scientologist.
You forgot the other lot that live just south of the Lebanon.
.Public money, the propaganda wing of the Labour Party
now, it seems that the City of London police where after £189,000 of tax that Arry had evaded – but as we all know he was found not guilty. The bill to the tax payer is £8million – so it was worth it then – Arry for england manager – hoofuckingray!!!
Did the Judge make any ruling as to costs?
Bit old this story Fawkes:
From: Andrew Armstrong
17 January 2011
Dear Lambeth Borough Council,
Please can you tell me the total cost of the advertising campaign
currently in place around the borough, trying to sell the idea to
local residents that the forthcoming cuts to services in Lambeth is
the fault of the coalition government [image link below]
http://twitpic.com/3qnam9
Please provide the answer in terms of the cost for designing and
producing the posters, and also the cost for taking out the
advertising space.
Please also confirm where this money has come from to fund this
campaign.
Yours faithfully,
Andrew Armstrong
And on it goes with plenty of stalling from lambeth.
And their lambeth Life mag.
Because South London Press readers choose to buy it, they read it. We were all forced to pay almost 20p a copy for Lambeth Life, and I wonder how much more it cost in stifling proper scrutiny of council spending?
I don’t agree on the value of £500,000 in Lambeth today. It’s enough, for example, to continue free bulky and garden waste collections (£300,000), save school crossing patrols (£150,000) and scrap the new charges for disabled parking bays (£40,000). Or there are many other cuts to social services such as care and sheltered housing, or public services such as street sweeping and public loos, which could be avoided.
And think how much we’ll save on recycling now we don’t have to pulp more than 3 million copies of Lambeth Life a year.
What action have Lambeth taken to try to provide
their services within a reduced budget?
how have the Government tried to help?
What practical help has been received from the staff?
Have any administrative tasks been taken off the remit of Lambeth Council?
have Lambeth any deposits with Banks either uk or non uk registered?
has any appraisal or sale of the Borough’s capital assets been carried out and if so with what results?
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Shocking use of taxpayer’s money.
Can CLG act against this sort of appaling waste?
We had 13 wonderful years under Labour in which we gave ourselves well paid non-jobs and spent millions on focus groups, relaxation lounges and staff awaydays. Now that’s all had to end. So it’s only right we spend tens of thousands to tell residents that the government has cut our funding.
People’s Republic. Try to master the apostrophe, Guido.
Actually, in this case I think our host is correct. The Borough of Lambeth is host to people from many different countries, Somalis, Jamaicans, Arabs, Banglas, etc. So lots of different peoples are represented, all of whom live in their own little entrenched ghettos – hence the use of the plural form.
Nearly a Third = 28%. So by Lambeth’s reckoning, the weekend is nearly a third of the week…
Reading through their proposals, it looks like the cuts have forced them to concentrate hard on delivering what their residents want, rather than political pet projects. Sounds great
A noa needa yora money no moro. Letta Lambeth av eet.
Yawn.
where is ted knight when he’s needed? … still working in a graesy spoon ??
as mamma would say ” each aa to eez own aa “
ehi silvio don’t diss ted knight …. after all it was stalinists like him who eventually paved the way for fascists like you to get into power …. now idiots like me are left to clean up the mess!! Porca miseria.
Het Hey Hey !! Come on boys Mutti Deutschland doesn’t like arguments in class . Either you shake hand s now or or I envelop you both within the folds opf my abundant cleavage for the next five years ..Tonner und Blitzen !!
In other news, Lambeth Council looks for ways to ensure residents notice a drop in services.
One thing’s for sure – ‘Steve’ Reed’s money hasn’t been cut.
Fucking socialist wanking Hunts.