Camden Tories and Lib Dems: in power and dangerous Camden council's new Tory and Lib dem administration is fast getting a reputation as one of the most useless, incompetant and malign councils to disfigure the face of local government across the land. Taking a look at the Ham & High website is reavealing if troubling.

First off there is the case of a disibility panel where they have decided to kick off for no good reason the only disabled member on it Andrew Lisicki. Now a accessible transport appeals panel that is meant to judge whether disabled people are entitled to extra help with transport with no disabled people on it!!! Disabled people do tend to get shut in a box in our society but where there is a clear case that they are more than qualified to do the job Camden council discriminates against them. More here.

Remember the Law Centre where they tried to close down. Now they want to shut down a charity that helps parents cope with their children. Home Start Camden is a charity that relies on volunteers. So instead of getting people to work for free in the interests of local people, who have the effect of helping hundreds of families, Camden council has decided to opt for family breakdown and the misery, depression, ruined life chances and crime that will bring. All for the sake of a poxy in camden council terms £60,000. The worst thing is that they are being given no time to find alternative sources of funding. More here

Possibly the most insane idea that they have come up with is photographing every home in the Borough complete with people's car number plates in drives and people coming out of their homes and putting it all on the internet.This is a charter of rights for Stalkers, Burglars, Crime Gangs, Nutcases and Weirdo's and is costing. For the privilge the council is charging tax payers £75,000 a go and they like to photo more than once a year. This is even more surprising from the Lib Dems who are supposed to be against all this big brother stuff but since when has consistency been their hallmark. More on this malign development here.

Here's an idea why don't they stop the photographing of people's homes and then use the money to fund the charity. With the £15,000 surplus they could even sponsor free keep fit classes in Regents Park. Privacy no longer invaded, families strengthend and Christmas belly banished.

This blog would also like to thank the journalist Katie Davies for uncovering the outrageous actions of a council bent on slash and burn funding, discrimination and abuse of power . It's not often that this blog heaps praise on a jorno so make the most of it.  ¶ 10:48 am