tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4189021335579222470.post743588345558952040..comments2024-03-15T09:19:54.968+00:00Comments on Mr Mustard (mrmustard@zoho.com): Time to take stock of One BarnetMr Mustardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12522242686839965655noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4189021335579222470.post-61336897267816218962012-08-13T14:48:29.098+01:002012-08-13T14:48:29.098+01:00"Mr Cornelius / Mr Walkley. Time to stop and ..."Mr Cornelius / Mr Walkley. Time to stop and think, methinks."<br /><br />No time - the dummies are already in the test car. It is accelerating towards the concrete block...baarnetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12301292285255035403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4189021335579222470.post-22965253241060816732012-08-13T11:23:04.532+01:002012-08-13T11:23:04.532+01:00Rams has two flawed arguments for redirecting out ...Rams has two flawed arguments for redirecting out council tax from service delivery to lawyers and accountants fees and profit.<br /><br />"First, these organisations are able to run the services more efficiently than we would be able to. This is the case, even when you take into account internal improvement work. This is for a number of reasons, such as the specialist expertise of the organisations and the economies of scale they are able to access as large national organisations."<br /><br />BT / Capita do not have the expertise, Barnet does, by out-souring we loose that...<br /><br />"Second, the private sector organisations will be able to grow the services they run for us which can bring in income. One way of doing this would be by investing in making Barnet’s services top quality in the region, and then offering them across other parts of London."<br /><br />So the expertise we give them for free, will be moved away from delivering services to Barnet, the best will be used as bait for new contracts to other boroughs. <br /><br />He does not get that costs or the tendering process, costs of management and monitoring of the contracts and the profit they will make does not mean there will be less money on service delivery. He cannot possibly believe that the private sector is so much more efficient than a well run Barnet with management dedicated to improving the in house service and not expending all their effort on outsourcing.<br /><br /> Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01478602678815662847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4189021335579222470.post-53127594451652605782012-08-13T11:16:55.397+01:002012-08-13T11:16:55.397+01:00That Barnet council management have been concentra...That Barnet council management have been concentrating on onebarnet and not working on making in house services better is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Essentially Barnet has been running without management for the last few years. Robert Rams's claims as to how much OneBarnet will save are comparing the "aspirational" costs against the costs of doing nothing. That he trumps these claims and does not compare against a well run in house service shows he is either naive or dishonest. <br /><br />We do know Cllr Thomas is not to be trusted with his public pronouncements (no redundancies) and other Tory councillors to be less then honest in their use of parking permits. Draw you own conclusions on the rest of them.<br /><br />Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01478602678815662847noreply@blogger.com