Posted by: Lord Fauntleroy on 12:16pm Fri 13 Apr 07
They better get the spinner in quick as the backlash has begun:
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Sign the guestbook here:
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LF.
They better get the spinner in quick as the backlash has begun:
http://www.glasgowlost.org/
Sign the guestbook here:
http://www.glasgowlost.org/guestbook.php
LF.
Posted by: A Nicol, Glasgow on 1:24pm Fri 13 Apr 07
I can't beleive 'giving' Glasgows leisure/culture facilities to a private company (all be it a charity) can be a good thing. These facilities belong to the people of Glasgow, these new owners could sell up anything without our consent. The only 'good' thing might be our Council Tax goes down because Leisure and Culture facilities are supposed to be funded through this and if the councils outgoings go down it should be passed on to us...Ha Ha!
I can't beleive 'giving' Glasgows leisure/culture facilities to a private company (all be it a charity) can be a good thing. These facilities belong to the people of Glasgow, these new owners could sell up anything without our consent. The only 'good' thing might be our Council Tax goes down because Leisure and Culture facilities are supposed to be funded through this and if the councils outgoings go down it should be passed on to us...Ha Ha!
Posted by: Bidget on 2:35pm Fri 13 Apr 07
A charitable trust of council services is clearly an abuse of funds given by the people to good causes or other issues they want to support not the running of council services. Bridget McConnel (Jocks wife)has just written to every employee telling them their pay allowances will not be able to be paid to them until July this year. It strikes me that the majority of Glasgow citizens and current Glasgow City Council employees are being kept well in the dark as to the true intentions of this charitable company.
A charitable trust of council services is clearly an abuse of funds given by the people to good causes or other issues they want to support not the running of council services. Bridget McConnel (Jocks wife)has just written to every employee telling them their pay allowances will not be able to be paid to them until July this year. It strikes me that the majority of Glasgow citizens and current Glasgow City Council employees are being kept well in the dark as to the true intentions of this charitable company.
Posted by: Brian Blessed, Glasgow on 6:01pm Fri 13 Apr 07
Labour - privatising your schools, hospitals, roads, trains, and now art galleries.
Good to see the useless fat-cats get their paws on the dough first - £52,000 to tell us we have 'kulchir'. I'm obviously in the wrong game.
Steven Purcell - your time is up!
Labour - privatising your schools, hospitals, roads, trains, and now art galleries.
Good to see the useless fat-cats get their paws on the dough first - £52,000 to tell us we have 'kulchir'. I'm obviously in the wrong game.
Steven Purcell - your time is up!
Posted by: George McLeod, Oban on 6:04pm Fri 13 Apr 07
Visit Scotland but avoid Glasgow
Typical Labour giving away our own facilities.
Another case for voting the people out of power make your vote count on 3rd May
Visit Scotland but avoid Glasgow
Typical Labour giving away our own facilities.
Another case for voting the people out of power make your vote count on 3rd May
Posted by: Rant, Glasgow on 6:27pm Fri 13 Apr 07
Mr Purcell is the best thing to happen to Glasgow for years. The services we receive from the Council are the best they have ever been. I know most Council workers are happy in their jobs and appreciate the changes that have been made.
A few complain anytime anyone works hard for their money i.e. Chief Executive being paid £30,000 on top of his £156,000 a year, outcry. A press liasion officer now receiving £56,000. But look at the benefits we all receive via these people being in post. Glasgow is booming just look at the luxuary flats on the Clydeside.
Mr Purcell is the best thing to happen to Glasgow for years. The services we receive from the Council are the best they have ever been. I know most Council workers are happy in their jobs and appreciate the changes that have been made.
A few complain anytime anyone works hard for their money i.e. Chief Executive being paid £30,000 on top of his £156,000 a year, outcry. A press liasion officer now receiving £56,000. But look at the benefits we all receive via these people being in post. Glasgow is booming just look at the luxuary flats on the Clydeside.
Posted by: The Chappie, Springburn on 8:45pm Fri 13 Apr 07
Yes, Rant ... and wheat production is up 300%and every farmer in the Lower Volga region has a sparkling new red tractor!!!
"I know most Council workers are happy in their jobs and appreciate the changes that have been made."
...so what you are saying here is that you personally know at least 1250 staff in CLS alone and you have personally consulted them in the last few months re the changes; if you're going to post at least try to keep it a wee bit believable! BTW you can't just say something and then deem it to be true, like a Purcellesque press release.
You're correct about the great services though, take graffiti removal in the city centre for example:
http://discuss.glasgowguide.co.uk/index.php?s=&showtopic=7692&view=findpost&p=128967
Yes, Rant ... and wheat production is up 300%and every farmer in the Lower Volga region has a sparkling new red tractor!!!
"I know most Council workers are happy in their jobs and appreciate the changes that have been made."
...so what you are saying here is that you personally know at least 1250 staff in CLS alone and you have personally consulted them in the last few months re the changes; if you're going to post at least try to keep it a wee bit believable! BTW you can't just say something and then deem it to be true, like a Purcellesque press release.
You're correct about the great services though, take graffiti removal in the city centre for example:
http://discuss.glasgowguide.co.uk/index.php?s=&showtopic=7692&view=findpost&p=128967
Posted by: Glasgow Residents Network on 6:02pm Sat 14 Apr 07
[quote]look at the benefits we all receive via these people being in post. Glasgow is booming just look at the luxuary flats on the Clydeside.[/quote]
You mean the crumby speculative ones most residents will never be able to afford. Comments like that show how attached to reality you are.
Take a trip to any scheme in Glasgow and you see a different picture pal. Glasgow is being ripped off, ripped down, sold off to the highest bidder, the people shafted, and the heritage boxed off and auctioned off. How anyone can take a city with 30% unemployment, where many areas have life expectancy of 52 for adult males, where heroin and organised criminal gangs are spiralling out of control with the virtual collusion of much of the authorities and describe this as 'booming' absolutely beggars belief.
www.glasgowresidents.wordpress.comn
look at the benefits we all receive via these people being in post. Glasgow is booming just look at the luxuary flats on the Clydeside.
You mean the crumby speculative ones most residents will never be able to afford. Comments like that show how attached to reality you are.
Take a trip to any scheme in Glasgow and you see a different picture pal. Glasgow is being ripped off, ripped down, sold off to the highest bidder, the people shafted, and the heritage boxed off and auctioned off. How anyone can take a city with 30% unemployment, where many areas have life expectancy of 52 for adult males, where heroin and organised criminal gangs are spiralling out of control with the virtual collusion of much of the authorities and describe this as 'booming' absolutely beggars belief.
www.glasgowresidents.wordpress.comn
Posted by: Vera Smart, Partick on 8:23pm Tue 17 Apr 07
The sooner we get rid of the NuLab conmen the better!
You know what to do in May - so get off your arse to do it.
The sooner we get rid of the NuLab conmen the better!
You know what to do in May - so get off your arse to do it.
Posted by: Vera Smart on 8:25pm Tue 17 Apr 07
[quote]Mr Purcell is the best thing to happen to Glasgow for years ...[/quote]I really hope your just taking the p*ss or trolling.
Surely no one could come out with that stuff and keep a straight face?
Mr Purcell is the best thing to happen to Glasgow for years ...
I really hope your just taking the p*ss or trolling.
Surely no one could come out with that stuff and keep a straight face?
Posted by: Chris, Glasgow on 3:31pm Wed 25 Apr 07
The real give away here is the comment "As a council department, communication was carried out by the council's media team.
"With the establishment of the new company, the responsibility has, like many other formerly shared services, transferred to the new body."
So what was once done collectively now has to be created for each 'hived off' service! Finance, Personnel, Press, Marketing, Maintenance etc. So much for 'efficiency savings; so much for joined up services. And - just as UNISON predicted - the first people to suffer will be the staff.
Hold councillors who voted for this to account during this campaign. Ask them if they will vote to bring this service back in house!!
The real give away here is the comment "As a council department, communication was carried out by the council's media team.
"With the establishment of the new company, the responsibility has, like many other formerly shared services, transferred to the new body."
So what was once done collectively now has to be created for each 'hived off' service! Finance, Personnel, Press, Marketing, Maintenance etc. So much for 'efficiency savings; so much for joined up services. And - just as UNISON predicted - the first people to suffer will be the staff.
Hold councillors who voted for this to account during this campaign. Ask them if they will vote to bring this service back in house!!
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