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1 hour ago, stevenl said:

"A 2023 investigation by *The Times* revealed Lambeth had allocated large sums to projects such as rain gardens, low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs), and cycle lanes, all aligned with its ambition to become net-zero by 2030—20 years ahead of the national target."

 

Excellent they're doing this, great projects to enhance safety, one of their essential tasks.

Lambeth is one of the worst boroughs in London :clap2:

 

Debts of nearly £1 billion, massive staff salaries, the most dangerous borough for robbery some months in 2024, there's a huge list of the failures residents in Lambeth are suffering because of the sheer incompetence.

 

Look what you class as an essential task, no they are not doing an excellent job.

 

You really have missed the whole point of the article.

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9 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Lambeth is one of the worst boroughs in London :clap2:

 

Debts of nearly £1 billion, massive staff salaries, the most dangerous borough for robbery in 2024, there's a huge list of the failures residents in Lambeth are suffering because of the sheer incompetence.

 

Look what you class as an essential task, no they are not doing an excellent job.

 

You really have missed the whole point of the article.

As usual you're distorting the post you're replying to.

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9 minutes ago, stevenl said:

As usual you're distorting the post you're replying to.

Can you explain where? You can't because it shows just how your ignorance shines in the one item you took from the OP while ignoring the real problems of Lambeth, something that Lambeth is also doing. Have you not got the irony of that yet? No obviously not. The residents of Lambeth have.

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7 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Can you explain where? You can't because it shows just how your ignorance shines in the one item you took from the OP while ignoring the real problems of Lambeth, something that Lambeth is also doing. Have you not got the irony of that yet? No obviously not. The residents of Lambeth have.

Yes, i took 1 item from the OP, because the OP took that as an example of mismanagement. A bad example from the OP, because it's an example of excellent management.

 

You stated "Look what you class as an essential task, no they are not doing an excellent job.", nowhere did i claim they're doing an excellent job. So you were distorting my post 

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10 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Yes, i took 1 item from the OP, because the OP took that as an example of mismanagement. A bad example from the OP, because it's an example of excellent management.

 

You stated "Look what you class as an essential task, no they are not doing an excellent job.", nowhere did i claim they're doing an excellent job. So you were distorting my post 

You must have been ducking, its gone straight over your head. Your example is one of showing just how badly managed it is. An ideological war on net zero while their residents suffer from one of the worst crime ridden boroughs in London and almost 1 billion in debts! 

 

"Financial transparency has also been an issue, as the council has not published audited accounts for the past two financial years"

 

 

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Oh dear. The lights are literally going out in Starmer's Britain.

 

A very special combination of tyranny and failure. 

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5 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Your example is one of showing just how badly managed it is. An ideological war on net zero while their residents suffer from one of the worst crime ridden boroughs in London and almost 1 billion in debts! 

 

"Financial transparency has also been an issue, as the council has not published audited accounts for the past two financial years"

 

 

Maybe time for you to get back to what i wrote.

"Excellent they're doing this, great projects to enhance safety, one of their essential tasks."

Bicycle lanes and low traffic neighborhoods are really excellent for safety, don't you agree?

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1 minute ago, stevenl said:

Maybe time for you to get back to what i wrote.

"Excellent they're doing this, great projects to enhance safety, one of their essential tasks."

Bicycle lanes and low traffic neighborhoods are really excellent for safety, don't you agree?

I addressed what you wrote twice already, you can repeat it as many times as you want, shows just how little you have.

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Just now, Bkk Brian said:

I addressed what you wrote twice already, you can repeat it as many times as you want, shows just how little you have.

Yes, you did if distorting and addressing are the same in your dictionary.

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Just now, stevenl said:

Yes, you did if distorting and addressing are the same in your dictionary.

If showing your ignorance to the facts of mismanagement is distorting then yes.

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Woke socialist virtue signalling with other people’s money is easy; pursuing a risible nett zero emissions policy, while China was responsible for 32.88% of World CO2 emissions in 2024 and the UK for circa 1%    

 

 

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5 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Very naughty boys ( and girls ).

Seems that soon as the idiots get hold of the purse strings they go mad with other people's money and promote their loony tunes pet projects over doing their proper job.

 

Nothing unique to Lambeth though. NZ councils are being spanked by the government for wasting ratepayer's money on grandiose cycle lane projects and such like stupidities.

And pay themselves quite handsomely it seems. I'm alright Jack.

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6 hours ago, Social Media said:

The Suzy Lamplugh Trust, an anti-stalking charity, and Our Streets Now, which campaigns against public sexual harassment,

They should set up a booth at each end of soi 6.

 

Literally impossible to get from Second Road to the beach without dozens of sexual proposals and usually a genitalia fondle or 10.

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4 hours ago, stevenl said:

"A 2023 investigation by *The Times* revealed Lambeth had allocated large sums to projects such as rain gardens, low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs), and cycle lanes, all aligned with its ambition to become net-zero by 2030—20 years ahead of the national target."

 

Excellent they're doing this, great projects to enhance safety, one of their essential tasks.

"Excellent they're doing this, great projects to enhance safety, one of their essential tasks."

Excellent sarcasm..good one!...:cheesy:

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Labeling low traffic neighborhoods and cycle lanes as ‘climate change initiatives’ is a bit of a stretch, both have significant positive impacts on increasing road user safety and improving health of residents.

 

Cycle lanes in particular have multiple positive impacts regardless of the reduction in carbon emissions they enable.

 

Perhaps local council funding is the issue, as it is in councils across the nation.  Another product of 14 years of slashing funding under the guise of ‘austerity’.

 

 

 

 

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Yes, obviously................

 

Is this Britain’s worst council? The area where tenants live in squalor
Lambeth has racked up debts approaching £1 billion and is accused of pursuing an ideological war on cars at the expense of the basic functions of local government

 

"Bayo Dosunmu, the chief executive, and Nabeel Khan, director of climate and growth at Lambeth council, which was forced to suspend an LTN that caused gridlock on one of London’s main thoroughfares"

 

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A council that’s been failing vulnerable children and leaving social housing tenants to live in squalor has spent more than £25 million on climate and “active travel” initiatives since 2019, The Times can reveal.

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/lambeth-council-worst-britain-spending-finance-v8wdh0300

https://archive.ph/odMZz

 

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1 hour ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Labeling low traffic neighborhoods and cycle lanes as ‘climate change initiatives’ is a bit of a stretch, both have significant positive impacts on increasing road user safety and improving health of residents.

 

Cycle lanes in particular have multiple positive impacts regardless of the reduction in carbon emissions they enable.

 

Perhaps local council funding is the issue, as it is in councils across the nation.  Another product of 14 years of slashing funding under the guise of ‘austerity’.

 

 

 

 

Austerity? Perhaps you don't come from the post-war generation that knows the true meaning of the word and remembers food and petrol rationing. A reduction in the rate of increase of government spending is not austerity by any definition. 

 

Since you're so keen on governments spending other people's money, perhaps you'd care to comment on the outrageous salaries paid to these 'councillors'  and particularly the 190k to Mr Dosunmu, apparently to fund his alcohol and drug habit.

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3 minutes ago, roquefort said:

Austerity? Perhaps you don't come from the post-war generation that knows the true meaning of the word and remembers food and petrol rationing. A reduction in the rate of increase of government spending is not austerity by any definition. 

 

Since you're so keen on governments spending other people's money, perhaps you'd care to comment on the outrageous salaries paid to these 'councillors'  and particularly the 190k to Mr Dosunmu, apparently to fund his alcohol and drug habit.


Are you trying to pretend ‘Austerity’ was not a key policy of the Tory Government’s commencing with Cameron?

If you have a problem with the use of the word wit respect to the fiscal policies of the past 14 years, take it up with Cameron and Osborne, it is they who reintroduced it into national finance planning.

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Increased spending every year has been the policy of governments of all colours (including New Labour) for many years. As to the inappropriate use of the word austerity I suspect it was the media rather than Cameron himself who first used it.

 

I note you have carefully avoided replying to the second part of my comment concerning a long-standing Labour council.

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9 minutes ago, roquefort said:

Increased spending every year has been the policy of governments of all colours (including New Labour) for many years. As to the inappropriate use of the word austerity I suspect it was the media rather than Cameron himself who first used it.

 

I note you have carefully avoided replying to the second part of my comment concerning a long-standing Labour council.


It was Cameron, Conservative Party Conference 2009:

 

The second part of your post started with an assumption on your part of my views, I figure you just make them up on my behalf so so had no wish to interrupt your flow.

 

https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/journals/cadaad/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Vol11.2-8-Evans-and-Walker.pdf

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7 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:


It was Cameron, Conservative Party Conference 2009:

 

The second part of your post started with an assumption on your part of my views, I figure you just make them up on my behalf so so had no wish to interrupt your flow.

 

https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/journals/cadaad/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Vol11.2-8-Evans-and-Walker.pdf

I stand corrected. It was Cameron then who introduced the inappropriate use of the word.

 

Please feel free to interrupt my flow. I won't be offended.

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On 12/18/2024 at 1:51 PM, stevenl said:

"A 2023 investigation by *The Times* revealed Lambeth had allocated large sums to projects such as rain gardens, low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs), and cycle lanes, all aligned with its ambition to become net-zero by 2030—20 years ahead of the national target."

 

Excellent they're doing this, great projects to enhance safety, one of their essential tasks.

 

Excellent they're doing this, great projects to enhance safety, one of their essential tasks.

 

I love your comedy posts.

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