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felonius monk
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Whatever one thinks of Lambeth's inefficiencies I'm surprised that it's only 3%.
Rushy
basically a scrotum
BBC Radio 4 - Political Thinking with Nick Robinson, The Steve Reed One
What motivates the man who's bringing Blairism back to Labour's crime policies?
Nick Robinson talks to the shadow justice secretary, Steve Reed, about why the collapse of a factory that employed most of his family led to him joining the Labour Party, how being mugged at knifepoint helped inform his new approach to antisocial behaviour and why he thinks the parents of young offenders should be sent to mandatory parenting classes.
Not listened to it yet...
Tricky Skills
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Take ANYTHING that man said with a very large pinch of salt.BBC Radio 4 - Political Thinking with Nick Robinson, The Steve Reed One
What motivates the man who's bringing Blairism back to Labour's crime policies?www.bbc.co.uk
Nick Robinson talks to the shadow justice secretary, Steve Reed, about why the collapse of a factory that employed most of his family led to him joining the Labour Party, how being mugged at knifepoint helped inform his new approach to antisocial behaviour and why he thinks the parents of young offenders should be sent to mandatory parenting classes.
Not listened to it yet...
Rushy
basically a scrotum
An interview remarkable mostly for just how dull it was.
Tricky Skills
Well-Known Member
It's worrying that the man who ordered apolitical Council officers to hack into the email of a fellow Cllr is probably going to be in charge of the UK's legal system in 18 months time.
And thinks parenting courses are an actual solution!
BusLanes
Pedestrian
Wait what??
Tricky Skills
Well-Known Member
Email hack Labour councillor stays after suspension
Pry my seat from my cold dead buttocks
www.theregister.com
MP Reed ordered investigation of councillor emails at Lambeth
Steve Reed OBE, the MP for Croydon North, had a fellow Labour councillor’s emails spied upon when he was the leader of Lambeth Council last year, according to an official answer provided at B…
insidecroydon.com
Gramsci
Well-Known Member
Steve Reed got a job under Corbyn leadership.
Once Corbyn went he went around rubbishing him. Bit like Starmer.
Steve Reed is on the right of the Labour party.
For him the rot set in when Miliband was leader.
This is from 2022. The "last ten years" includes Miliband as leader.
Miliband being seen as "soft left"
For those like Reed they want removal or political neutering of anyone who they see as a bit to the left of them.
And neither leader was an "extremist" . Miliband and Corbyn aren't revolutionaries. Both left of centre social democrats. To much for the likes of Reed and his ilk.
They way he hounded a Cllr in Lambeth is exactly the kind of tactics that the right use. Reminded me of how Cllr Rachel got treated .They will ruthlessly destroy anyone who might oppose them. It works. They did it to Corbyn. Making him stand twice etc etc. Its not about comradely political differences in a Broad Church Labour party. They aren't interested in that.
The sheer nastiness of the right of the party does not surprise as I saw that at first hand in how Cllr Rachel was treated. Which was after Steve Reed had gone. But the same kind of people are in charge.
www.mirror.co.uk
Once Corbyn went he went around rubbishing him. Bit like Starmer.
Steve Reed is on the right of the Labour party.
For him the rot set in when Miliband was leader.
This is from 2022. The "last ten years" includes Miliband as leader.
Miliband being seen as "soft left"
For those like Reed they want removal or political neutering of anyone who they see as a bit to the left of them.
And neither leader was an "extremist" . Miliband and Corbyn aren't revolutionaries. Both left of centre social democrats. To much for the likes of Reed and his ilk.
They way he hounded a Cllr in Lambeth is exactly the kind of tactics that the right use. Reminded me of how Cllr Rachel got treated .They will ruthlessly destroy anyone who might oppose them. It works. They did it to Corbyn. Making him stand twice etc etc. Its not about comradely political differences in a Broad Church Labour party. They aren't interested in that.
The sheer nastiness of the right of the party does not surprise as I saw that at first hand in how Cllr Rachel was treated. Which was after Steve Reed had gone. But the same kind of people are in charge.
Steve Reed on Justice - 'Days when Labour cared more about criminals are over'
New Shadow Justice Secretary Steve Reed moved to harden Labour's line on law and order - and told how having a knife held to his throat 20 years ago affects him today
www.mirror.co.uk
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CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Thanks for a detailed report there. Does this mean that we get a 2% + 2,99% increase - that is a 4.99% increase?
And what about the Mayor's precept - including permanent cut to Freedom Pass morning use (except for diabled people)?
Tricky Skills
Well-Known Member
The Lambeth Show was once rather good.
I actually want Lambeth to have some experienced staff who are competent.
Do we want Lambeth to be staffed purely by interns and work experience kids ?
felonius monk
Well-Known Member
High salaries are no guarantee of competence.
No, but good luck hiring decent people w/o decent salaries through.
Or high salaries with incompetence as has been the case.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Well SHE couldn't sort it out, so no-one can!
www.bbc.co.uk
(our first power chief exec - paid to bin the Appelby Report into Lambeth's corruption and incompetence)
BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Woman's Hour Power List - Heather Rabbatts CBE
Non-executive director of the Football Association
Gramsci
Well-Known Member
£170,791.00 Strategic Director of Resident
Services
( from looking at the Council docs in Brixton Buzz article)
Here is salary of person we were told is heading up the transition of Leisure services to in-house management by Lambeth council.
The Director of residents services who does not actually meet residents.
Given the whopping great salary they get I would have thought talking to residents at least sometimes should be part of the job.
A problem with Lambeth is that despite it being a "Coop Council" is that it is run in a top down way.
The right of the party who run Lambeth are quite used to this way of working.
Residents never get to see people whose pay grade is over 100 thousand. Yet these are the people who make the real decisions.
Things are decided and organised from the top.
In case of HfL this resulted in a complete failure.
I do think so called professionals don't have the abilities they like to think they have. In my experience there is a sense of entitlement that they know best.
HfL and estate regeneration are prime example of what happens when residents aren't engaged or listened to.
I would hope Lambeth would learn something from this.
People aren't going to buy into changes if they are not engaged in meaningful manner.
Hiring consultation consultants to run "workshops" when decisions have already been made causes further scepticism of how the system works.
Only time I ever had to deal with a top officer was a planning disagreement that went to arbitration over the Grove Adventure playground. Not a pleasant experience.
The officers that have the task of dealing with residents are lower down on the ladder. With thankless task of telling residents how its going to be. If lucky ones views may work their way back to the real decision makers.
In end its the Cllrs who should be rectifying this.
Services
( from looking at the Council docs in Brixton Buzz article)
Here is salary of person we were told is heading up the transition of Leisure services to in-house management by Lambeth council.
The Director of residents services who does not actually meet residents.
Given the whopping great salary they get I would have thought talking to residents at least sometimes should be part of the job.
A problem with Lambeth is that despite it being a "Coop Council" is that it is run in a top down way.
The right of the party who run Lambeth are quite used to this way of working.
Residents never get to see people whose pay grade is over 100 thousand. Yet these are the people who make the real decisions.
Things are decided and organised from the top.
In case of HfL this resulted in a complete failure.
I do think so called professionals don't have the abilities they like to think they have. In my experience there is a sense of entitlement that they know best.
HfL and estate regeneration are prime example of what happens when residents aren't engaged or listened to.
I would hope Lambeth would learn something from this.
People aren't going to buy into changes if they are not engaged in meaningful manner.
Hiring consultation consultants to run "workshops" when decisions have already been made causes further scepticism of how the system works.
Only time I ever had to deal with a top officer was a planning disagreement that went to arbitration over the Grove Adventure playground. Not a pleasant experience.
The officers that have the task of dealing with residents are lower down on the ladder. With thankless task of telling residents how its going to be. If lucky ones views may work their way back to the real decision makers.
In end its the Cllrs who should be rectifying this.
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Gramsci
Well-Known Member
Started to look at the Council report for the Cabinet meeting.
Noticed this:
Has the Labour Group no humility? After damning report on how it consults residents and its abject failure on many levels to produce affordable homes it says this in its report to Cabinet?
Beggars belief.
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Gramsci
Well-Known Member
LDs had some interesting ideas on Leisure services.
Free membership for 5 to 15 year olds.
Harmonise prices between Leisure centres. Surprisingly they differ.
They also criticised the 15percent increase in prices planned
