An Officer Slams Cockell

The observant will have noticed  The Dame has a new personal and highly confidential email address. Any choice titbits will be welcomed and treated in the discreetest possible way. The Dame would love to hear from you(not you ex cllr Phelps with your vile emails!) dameathome@yahoo.co.uk
Anyway the first incisive contribution comes from someone describing himself as, 'Soon To Retire Officer'
Pooter and Myers should read it!
 

Reading the recent blogs it is quite clear just how serious the problems in Kensington & Chelsea are. Everyone reads the Hornet and we all have a good laugh at the exploits of the Dame and her hopeless nephew. But behind the irony there is the reality that things are going very badly wrong in the Borough. The fiasco of the BT high speed Broadband is just the tip of the iceberg. There is now no leadership and the services for residents are being taken over by Hammersmith & Fulham that is emerging as a much stronger force than Kensington & Chelsea in what is effectively a struggle for hegemony.

A Demotivated Officer

Councillor Cockell has never been a manager. He never ran anything another than a tiny and very unsuccessful ‘import-export’ business. Just himself and a dog in a basement belonging to the local Conservative Association and rented at a soft rent. . What management there was at the Council came from Derek Myers. We hardly see him now. The ideas came from Councillor Moylan, many of them idiotic, but ideas none the less. Now even if Councillor Cockell did have any management ability he no longer has the time or the inclination to manage anything. Most of his time is spent at the LGA and what time he does have at Hornton Street is spent in ensuring that he is surrounded by people who will not challenge his position as Leader. This group have no conception of just how bad things are. If they want something all the stops are pulled out. But for everyone else, service and response is dropping fast. He can’t afford to lose his position as Leader as he needs the money! Now there is no management and no ideas and Tri-Borough marches on with the standards falling to the low level of H&F.
I know that the Conservative councillors are all hoping he will go to the House of Lords. Two problems. First who would take over from him? The old guard are all two tainted with having been his gofers and helping to prop up his position, in return for what? The younger ones have no management or political skills. This is really why he is still there. The second problem is that the Conservatives, with or without their coalition partners stand not a snow ball’s chance in Hell of winning the next election. Unless he goes quickly (and there seems to be no sign of this) he will be there until he is in his wheelchair.

So what does this mean for residents and officers? Falling standards for residents, poor working environment for officers. 'I’m all right, Jack' for the Leader.