Dawn of a new era?
I thought I would click on the Local Govt button to see what was new. First item clicked was:New council leader hails mandate for positive change Cllr Stephen Greenhalgh welcomes "dawn of a new era" Curious, I thought, no local elections since those in May 2006. Turns out, this was put there in May 2006. What I remember of the launch of the new administration was the launch of their new borough logo, which must be almost unique in that the words Hammersmith and Fulham don't feature on it, and for a suppsedly non-political emblem of the borough, it looked remarkably like the Tory party logo!Since then as Stephen Cowan has pointed out, a lot of cuts of good services and few signs of innovation in generating any new ones. As ever, the obsession to the exclusion of improving services, with holding or reducing the Council Tax. No effort to even begin to resolve the chronic and growing housing shortage, especially at the affordable end - people there left to swing in the wind of insecure tenure in the fickle private sector or pitch for part-rent part-buy at prices they can barely, if at all, afford. No sign of Lib-Dem opposition around the borough being even remotely an alternative. So come 2010 it will be up to borough voters to chop them or keep them. I hope Stephen Cowan has a new intake of very able fresh Labour councillors lined up to take over again; my word what a lot of work to do to clear up the mess Greenhalgh and his gang will have left.
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