Cracks

Published: 21 April, 2011

• THE cracks are appearing in the new Labour administration, the party is in complete meltdown and disarray.

On April 15 a small majority of Labour councillors voted in favour of Councillor Theo Blackwell, a “Yes” vote for a £100million pound plus super town hall building to be incorporated on the King’s Cross development site.

Ten stood their ground and voted against such a scheme, five made excuses and were absent, and the other 15 should now resign in disgrace.

Politicians are playing a game of snakes and ladders with the public purse – more snakes than ladders. Labour have been making employees redundant and wielding the axe on local services and voluntary groups, the lifeline of our community.

An unnecessary luxury office building will not benefit the community. 

There was no public consultation.

The mathematics simply do not add up. Labour once claimed to have inherited the wrongs of the past administration, yet are slapping the electorate in the face with this crazy notion of a super town hall. 

The priorities of community needs have clearly been put on hold; the preference, an unwanted luxury office building.

A new building for officers and sub-standard housing for the people; services cut to the bone, yet Cllr Blackwell & co still smile in our faces and state that central government is to blame.    

The people of the borough need to demand a full public inquiry and establish if a vote of no confidence in the new administration should follow.

T WIGGETT
Chair of Gospel Oak District Management Committee 
and Housing & Environment Monitoring Panel