Lynne Featherstone

Received an interesting email / thesis from a local resident about the sudden (but very much needed) £176 million injection for schools in Haringey. The resident was a school governor in Haringey during the eighties and nineties, who saw PFI being used to modernise the secondary schools. He says that they were told that this was the only way the works would be funded. Now his view is that the £176 million that the Government has ‘found’ to give to Haringey is political. He said: ‘It appears that your parliamentary seat and the removal of 12 councillors [there are 12 more Lib Dem councillors than 4 years ago]is worth a lot of money. If true then the money for peerages issue is mere chicken feed.’

Makes you think!

Comments

1. JT says:

   2 December 2006 at 9:35 pm

   Lynne, when politicians have the power to buy and sell with our money, the first things that will be bought will be the politicans.

   Best off cutting them out of the loop to avoid the inevitable corruption, and simply allowing us to direct our own money to the schools of our choice.

   Do you disagree?
2. James says:

   3 December 2006 at 3:22 pm

   Far more people get accused of corruption who are not politicians than those who are politicians. It’s just lazy hostility to MPs to think that removing politicians from a decision will suddenly make everything right.