Camden Council is cutting £1.6m from its library budget, this is two years after it cut the library workforce by 40%. They are consulting with library users and have given them access to selective data in order that they can come to an informed decision (sorry i would laugh but its too serious!), there is one slight problem, and i quote
"We are not consulting on whether to make these savings at all, or whether to make less savings from libraries"
the choices include decreasing library opening hours by 40%, closing the central library in Swiss Cottage, or closing some of the smaller branch libraries, what a choice!
This is the new style of community consultation, holding a sham consultation to try and legitimise a decision that has already been made!
Oh! and by the way Camden spent £1m on consultants last year and £3m on temporary staff!
I have only one thing to say to Camden's library users, and to library users everywhere, and that is "Boycott consultations they are not worth the paper they are written on"
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living in an afe of idiocy with idiots running councils means that this is the age of Aquarius, you know when the moon is in the seventh house and stuff like that....make sense? No but nor does Camden and the wankers in it
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