2035 Hrs GMT
London
Monday
24 January 2011
By © Muhammad Haque
When even the die-hard Tory paper the DAILY MAIL admits that CONDEM is wrongly targeting society's vital arteries for cuts the answer is CLEAR.
That answer to the question we had earlier today posed on this blog: Does Cameron care?
The DAILY MAIL is reporting about the effects the CONDEM cuts are having on vital social facilities. Services, support and back up that are central to the survival of society.
This latest admission by the likes of the London DAILY MAIL is linked to the report published by a policy research group called “Centre for Social Justice”.
All the main news agencies trading in the UK have reported the CSJ’s findings in identical manner. The “coalition cuts are hitting the wrong targets”. This is in fact the same conclusion that even the CBI’s outgoing director general Richard lambert has come to. That the CONDEM regime is on to a loser! The loss is going to be a big one: Society itself.
Measured against this kind of dire destructive “initiative” that is also at the same time costing £BILLIONS of public money, the work that has been going on in the past 30 years or so under the initiative of the uniquely gifted Kay Jordan merits more than a detailed look.
We have been looking at some of Kay Jordans’ work already. In the next part, we examine the miniature miracle of sustainable economics that kay Jordan has been bringing about in the Brick lane London E1 area in that time.
[To be continued]
From the web site of the London DAILY MAIL:
Spending cuts should not just be about efficiency
By HARRY PHIBBS
Last updated at 12:15 PM on 24th January 2011
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Cutbacks: The think-tank the CSJ, founded by Iain Duncan-Smith, has called for a radical re-think of where the axe falls
Away from all the noise of the student agitprop merchants and trade union vested interests there is a serious contribution to where the public spending axe should really fall.
The Centre for Social Justice reports that ‘outcome-based Government’ challenges the whole basis on which the state spends our money - and instead of measuring inputs we should measure outputs.
As the CSJ put it, Whitehall has for years measured success ‘as higher spending and taxes leading to more police, teachers and social workers.
‘But they ignore outcomes that matter to the public such as less crime, better exam results and fewer drug addicts. The result of this approach is not just a waste of public money. It is also a waste of using spending programmes to deliver more effective outcomes for the country at large.’
For instance, ‘the Government spends £1.2 billion a year on measures aimed at tackling problem drug use, yet does not know what overall effect this spending is having.’
We have become used to an Equalities Impact Assessment of any proposal from Government. But what about an independent assessment of whether the proposal has achieved anything tangible?
Just as with spending transparency, where we are starting to see more detail on where our money is spent, we should also see what difference the spending has made.
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Overall public spending will only fall very marginally over the next four years by four per cent over the whole period after allowing for inflation. In cash terms spending is actually going up to over £700 billion.
In some areas such as the NHS, overseas aid, debt interest and our contributions to the EU there will be substantial increases in real terms. But in other areas there will be some big cuts amounting to £81 billion. The choices about where to find those savings are crucial to the success of the coalition Government.
The case highlighted last week of Celyn Vincent, a six-year-old child who has some severe disabilities, illustrates the challenge.
Her mother says she can't cope without more respite care. She says: ‘The care at the moment costs £15 per hour which is £90 per week but they’re not going to increase it for us. If Celyn has to go into a residential home it will cost £2,000 to £3,000 per week. It’s crazy.’
The Government are providing an extra £20 million for respite care - coming from some of the savings from scrapping the Child Trust Fund. But should they do more?
It is quite likely that extra spending in this area would mean lower spending on residential care for the reason Mrs Vincent gave. This is the sort of area where the outcome of the spending needs to properly considered.
Disabled: Celyn Vincent suffers from quadriplegic cerebral palsy and life-threatening epilepsy
Children's home should be a last resort - both for the interests of the child and for financial reasons. Some are ‘secure’ children's homes – generally used to accommodate young offenders. Some are for severely disabled children whose parents are unable to cope and where foster carers can't cope either.
But over a billion a year is spent on children's homes and many of the children should not be placed in such institutions.
A Government report has noted: ‘The educational outcomes of children whose last placement is in residential care are even worse than those of other Looked After children, with 73 per cent failing to get even a single GCSE.’
he Sir Humphrey mentality will always be defensive about challenging the status quo. It will also be defensive about cuts to bureaucracy.
These are familiar political challenges. But the debate on the spending cuts should not just be about efficiency. It should also be about whether each state programme is really delivering results for the British people.
What functions is it really worthwhile for the state to carry out? Those programmes that are failing should not just be streamlined or made more efficient. They should be stopped altogether.
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Monday, 24 January 2011
Can David Cameron undo the dispossessions done by the likes of David Cohen from the EVENING STANDARD? Does Cameron care?
Can David Cameron undo the dispossessions done by the likes of David Cohen from the EVENING STANDARD? Does Cameron care?
1630 Hrs GMT
London
Monday
24 January 2011
By©Muhammad Haque
How long will it take David Cameron to get it about society? Perhaps he will never get it. Going by the way that his CONDEM collusion is smashing up most of what remains of what used to be society in Britain. The first target Cameron has hit is the idea, the principle, the value of society. And once he has undermined it, the rest is going to happen fast. And it is already happening.
Whichever direction you look, CONDEM is doing something that alarms, worries and weakens.
All the CONDEM targets are on the one side: the already struggling and under other attacks.
Even the Rupert Murdoch-owned Times newspaper has been running the headline today about Cameron’s assault on society...
I shall examine some key CONDEM behaviour witnessed ion the East End of London to show just how wrong cameron is in his assault on society.
[To be continued]
1630 Hrs GMT
London
Monday
24 January 2011
By©Muhammad Haque
How long will it take David Cameron to get it about society? Perhaps he will never get it. Going by the way that his CONDEM collusion is smashing up most of what remains of what used to be society in Britain. The first target Cameron has hit is the idea, the principle, the value of society. And once he has undermined it, the rest is going to happen fast. And it is already happening.
Whichever direction you look, CONDEM is doing something that alarms, worries and weakens.
All the CONDEM targets are on the one side: the already struggling and under other attacks.
Even the Rupert Murdoch-owned Times newspaper has been running the headline today about Cameron’s assault on society...
I shall examine some key CONDEM behaviour witnessed ion the East End of London to show just how wrong cameron is in his assault on society.
[To be continued]
Prince Charles when visiting the SSBA in Brick Lane “said something should be done with the East End” Kay Jordan told MPs as she warned of Xrail
Prince Charles when visiting the SSBA in Brick Lane “said something should be done with the East End” Kay Jordan recalled as she told them about the Crossrail hole plot. Then she added: “I should say that now we are certainly having something done to us [.]”!
QUOTING the officially published record:
Ms Jordan:
We do object to having to be considered that we will put a percentage on our rates to support a rail link tunnel connecting simply the City of London to Canary Wharf in the east and Heathrow in the west, and no amount of argument claiming economic regeneration, which has been claimed, additionality or connectivity will change our minds about this. We are convinced that the proposals are anything but what they say they are and represent the advancement of the City into the East End. They will do, as far as we are concerned, the opposite to what they say they will do and in our opinion they will devastate and completely destroy our vibrant and multi-cultural community. I will note that I put in my notes here, "I expect the Chairman by now to be saying what he is not wanting to hear from Miss Jordan," and for his sake I will now turn to the detail of the Bill.
11305. My papers are numbers 1 to 4. If you could start with one, please. This is the slide you saw much earlier when these proceedings started.[10] In fact, my office has kindly altered it to try and highlight what the Promoters were saying where our properties are affected by it. You can see a very large yellow block in the middle. Down on the right-hand side is a block where the arrow route of the traffic is, which is a converted synagogue and business centre where my office is. In fact, just behind the very large block in the middle which was going to be the hole, you will just be able see two little strips of yellow.
11306. Could you turn to the next document, please.[11] This document shows our property holding as it is affected by the railway. These are the properties that are affected. You can see large chunks of property to the left of where the main hole would be, which are workshops and flats which were the ones the housing co-operative started off with. The plots to the south, I have mentioned. The block in the north is another collection of properties that we have off Brick Lane which are subject to being probably interfered with with the first Crossrail proposal. Come along and you will see to the east of where the hole is there is a whole series of blocks which are also properties, some of which are owned by the SSPA and the very large property on the left-hand side is a community centre which is owned by the local authority but managed by ourselves.
11307. Could you turn to the next picture, please.[12] I have put this in as a graphic representation. It is an extract from a manual report of—and if I could read Bengali, then I could tell you—it is 1989. It was representing our tenants and members. You can see from Hanbury Street and Princelet Street we sit exactly in and around where this hole is, so you will see how we are affected.
11308. Could I see the next picture, please.[13] These pictures are of the properties in Hanbury and Princelet Streets. You will see the Dutch gable properties which are on Hanbury Street which were improved in the late 1980s and the single row of terrace with the big building in the background. The big building is in fact Britannia House which is, or was in fact, to be knocked down and the single row of properties are back workshops behind a terrace of property owned by the housing co-operative. These were properties we separated out in terms of residential and industrial use. You can see the tenants outside. This, in fact, was a building site that Prince Charles came to when he said something should be done with the East End. I should say that now we are certainly having something done to us.
QUOTING the officially published record:
Ms Jordan:
We do object to having to be considered that we will put a percentage on our rates to support a rail link tunnel connecting simply the City of London to Canary Wharf in the east and Heathrow in the west, and no amount of argument claiming economic regeneration, which has been claimed, additionality or connectivity will change our minds about this. We are convinced that the proposals are anything but what they say they are and represent the advancement of the City into the East End. They will do, as far as we are concerned, the opposite to what they say they will do and in our opinion they will devastate and completely destroy our vibrant and multi-cultural community. I will note that I put in my notes here, "I expect the Chairman by now to be saying what he is not wanting to hear from Miss Jordan," and for his sake I will now turn to the detail of the Bill.
11305. My papers are numbers 1 to 4. If you could start with one, please. This is the slide you saw much earlier when these proceedings started.[10] In fact, my office has kindly altered it to try and highlight what the Promoters were saying where our properties are affected by it. You can see a very large yellow block in the middle. Down on the right-hand side is a block where the arrow route of the traffic is, which is a converted synagogue and business centre where my office is. In fact, just behind the very large block in the middle which was going to be the hole, you will just be able see two little strips of yellow.
11306. Could you turn to the next document, please.[11] This document shows our property holding as it is affected by the railway. These are the properties that are affected. You can see large chunks of property to the left of where the main hole would be, which are workshops and flats which were the ones the housing co-operative started off with. The plots to the south, I have mentioned. The block in the north is another collection of properties that we have off Brick Lane which are subject to being probably interfered with with the first Crossrail proposal. Come along and you will see to the east of where the hole is there is a whole series of blocks which are also properties, some of which are owned by the SSPA and the very large property on the left-hand side is a community centre which is owned by the local authority but managed by ourselves.
11307. Could you turn to the next picture, please.[12] I have put this in as a graphic representation. It is an extract from a manual report of—and if I could read Bengali, then I could tell you—it is 1989. It was representing our tenants and members. You can see from Hanbury Street and Princelet Street we sit exactly in and around where this hole is, so you will see how we are affected.
11308. Could I see the next picture, please.[13] These pictures are of the properties in Hanbury and Princelet Streets. You will see the Dutch gable properties which are on Hanbury Street which were improved in the late 1980s and the single row of terrace with the big building in the background. The big building is in fact Britannia House which is, or was in fact, to be knocked down and the single row of properties are back workshops behind a terrace of property owned by the housing co-operative. These were properties we separated out in terms of residential and industrial use. You can see the tenants outside. This, in fact, was a building site that Prince Charles came to when he said something should be done with the East End. I should say that now we are certainly having something done to us.