Cllr Paul Lorber, Brent Liberal Democrat Leader, has for years promised to cut the amount of Brent Council Tax payers' money going on leaflets. The reality, as I pointed out in my post of 28 August, is that he has put the amount spent up.
In fact, he did briefly cut the publicity spending, by abolishing the newsletters sent out as part of Neighbourhood Working. Of course, this saving had the disadvantage of ensuring that the voters knew nothing about Neighbourhood Working, and were effectively not being consulted about it. Since the raison detre of Neighbourhood Working is to engage the voters and find out what they want, that was a considerable disadvantage.
The Council officers realised this, and have now reinstated the ward newsletters that Cllr Lorber preened himself on abolishing.
It shows you how disengaged Brent Council's so-called Leader is from the workings of the organisation that he is supposed to head that he has made no protest about this.
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