Hackney Council is carrying out an appraisal for estate cleaning and ground maintenance services, and are considering three options:
- Full outsourcing of contractors for both services across Hackney Homes.
- Bringing all estate cleaning services back in-house as the external contract elapses.
- Entry an effective partnership with another organisation following an appropriate procurement process.
Hackney Tenants' and Residents' Associations have been consulted on our views, and naturally, ours voted for option 2.
Usually, despite running a 'consultation', the Council has a preferred option. For example, on the 'consultation' which led to ALMO a couple of years back, the ballot paper may as well have read "do you want ALMO or do you want to live in a hovel?". This one isn't so obvious, but my guess is that number 3 could be their preferred option. The clue is that it is the only one that uses adjectives - it's an option to enter not into a "partnership" but into an "effective partnership", not just a "procurement process" but an "appropriate procurement process".
We shall see. But if the Council plumps for either option 1 or 3, then we will need to campaign against privatisation and for estate cleaning services to be Council-run.
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Arise Ye Starvlings from your stublings.....
Very OFF TOPIC - Attended the Manchester Anti-war March again yesterday (23/06/07) and i didn't see a single WL paper seller. I do understand the groups motive in not attending love-parties like these demonstrations, but I cant see how the group is getting it accross by not being part. I have been accused of Posadist views, but by completely standing outside of the working class movement and suggesting that we no longer care (a march makes no voice any longer) and capitalism will only end itself by concentrated work with comrades in Iraq (Iran, Pakistan). I don't see how those principals fall from Posadism?
Janine, :-) I'm only writing this here because I wouldn't be able to write it anywhere else on site. You took me under your wing and am eternally greatful for your guidence all those years ago. Dave Barter's Trotskyist history pathways are better than anything you can find on the web now. (Though he did call me a Posadist, I thought it was sexual term!) Mike x x
Blast from the past
Hi Michael. It took me a couple of minutes to recognise you (memory going: middle age). But now I do. So hello. How are you, and what are you up to politically?
I know there were some AWL comrades on the march (myself not included), so if any of them would care to comment, please do.
BTW, If you can post a comment on my blog, you can post it on anything else on the WL site (technically speaking, that is).
Yep its ages
Still muddling along in LP (Healy/Grant tendencies in me need a good boot in the ass)
My concern when I posted was that WL seems to have left the popular movement. SWP destroyed the Anti-war movement 4 years ago with its clifftination of vibrant radical youth. The youth movement is still vibrant in AWM but greatly marginalised.
I am and remain a commited Trotskyist (Trot Labour)(though not as posadist as WL seems to be heading towards ;-)) I was involved with an anarcho collective but got tired of the anti-SWP offensive. SWP do a great deal of good work but fail miserably with actually with enlightening people.
I was involved with http://stopthewarmongers.org and there was WL seller there on one our demos. It gained some media attention, but our WL comrade disappeared when 40 coppers encircled our very mixed bunch of 12!
WL needs to seen and heard. I'm a bit too old now for revolutionary politics. I got dizzy after minuting the great debate on Debilitated Workers State SO conf 1990 and ended up creching making "PAY NO POLL TAX" posters for the kids!
Left Unity and Socialist Organiser (a)very happy memories (b) Actually grounded me in what a Trotskyist is. The debates I heard, the books I read (and still read) will stay with me till I die. Can you kick out my Healey/Grant tendencies? nope The peoples flag is deepest red and still has a place in the working class movement (red rose an all)
Thank you so much for replying, I'm much more suprised than you were to remember me. On a parting thought I happened to see DD on Jeremy Kyle counselling somebody! This is a guy who took out a packet of condoms from the "welcoming pack" he had handed me (in his office one day I was at SMCC) and said "Actually I'll have those for later".
Again, Thank you so much. I have the deepest warm memories about you. Kind regards to you et famile :-)
Mike michawest@gmail.com