Young people lose out to Olympic gravy train
Hackney’s Labour Party has scored an own goal for residents by turning down a Conservative proposal for a massive injection of funds into the borough’s sports and community facilities.
The Conservatives proposed amendments at Hackney’s annual budget meeting that would have seen disused Council buildings brought into community use, restored the Park Keeper’s cottage on London Fields, re-opened Haggerston Pool, established a Hackney-wide amateur football club and set up a cycle of competitive sports for young people.
The £7 Million programme would have been funded by disbanding the current “Olympic Teamâ€, a body set up by Hackney Labour to take money from the borough’s services and squander it on consultants and marketing.
If adopted, the Conservative proposals would have also reduced Hackney’s council tax demands by over 1%.
Conservative Group Leader, Matthew Coggins, said: “There are very few people who think that Hackney’s legacy budget is anything other than an employment service for consultants. What’s more, it will be brought to you by the same people who built the Millennium Dome. We gave the Labour Party the chance to spend money on our neglected young people now. Instead, those young people will have to wait four years in the hope that some scraps will fall from the Olympic table.â€
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The Council is riddled with highly paid consultants. I have been told some consultants can earn around £1000 per day. This is a great idea but ypu have no chance cahnging the mind of Pipe and his mafia clique employing their mates
Hi “Dalston Dispirited”. I know it can feel like there’s nothing to be done about Hackney Labour. But they’re only there because we’ve never worked hard enough to convince people there’s an alternative. There is an alternative now.