The IW Council's Media Unit yesterday issued a press release that was as party political as anything I have ever seen emanate from County Hall. It claimed delivery of a number of Tory manifesto pledges to timetable. Deborah and I issued a Labour press release last week pointing out the Tories' failure to deliver on some of their timetabled pledges. We did not use the Media Unit and would not have dreamed of doing so. We consider that party politics should be dealt with by the local political parties; not funded by the Council tax payer. We will pursue this further. It is an abuse of Council taxpayers money
A 'Change Management Plan' has been issued to all Council staff by the Directors of the Council. This gives some information to staff on the new administration's plans for delivering a strategic partnership for many local services. This was the first I had seen of this paper; but then that is not unusual in this 'inclusive' Council ! The paper is written in the new gobbledegook favoured by this new regime. We in the Labour Party want to see excellent public services for Islanders, delivered by Islanders, from island bases. Strategic partnering will lead to jobs being undertaken by a company based on the mainland. Is that what Islanders want ?
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If privatisation is as inevitable as it seems to be - I hope that the services will at least be delivered from a mainland UK base rather than an International one.
However it is achieved, it is inevitable that jobs will be lost, and services will suffer.
Are the administration under the impression that the only thing that Islanders care about is low Council Tax? How will locals feel when private companies begin to deliver low quality services? No amount of tactical voting at the next election will be able to improve the services delivered by a private company which has a multi-year contract left to run.
You are so right Rachel. This administration seems bent on tying the hands of whoever is elected to run the IW Council in 2009
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