Hot on the heels of the enormous fiasco over the Tories voting themselves a massive pay-rise (a proposal viciously whipped through by Brian 'Mr Toad' Coleman), and the consequent embarrassment caused by the resulting leadership challenge - Coleman's Tories have yet another embarrassment.
According to The Guardian, a report to the Audit Committee has just ordered Barnet to come up (finally) with a business case for the savage cuts they are planning to inflict on our services - including selling our libraries and sacking the wardens in our sheltered housing.
But hang on a minute, you may be thinking. This is Coleman and Co's flagship policy. Have they really failed to even get a business case for it?
I'm afraid so.
In the interests of fairness however, I should point out that although they may not have a business case of any kind, they are in possession of bags and bags of Thatcherite dogma. Will that do?
Understandably, the unions and Barnet's residents are more than a little furious about having their services cut simply to satisfy Coleman's Thatcherite urges. They had a successful meeting last night of around 200 angry people determined to mount a campaign against Coleman's monstrous foolishness (Click the link and scroll down for information about the next of these meeting).
And yet, in the Barnet Times, Brian 'no business case' Coleman has called them: "a complete shambles" and "a group of no hopers".
So what has all this got to do with Sigmund Freud and his theory of Freudian projection? Well, Wikipedia helpfully explains that an example of Freudian projection might be "...blaming another for self failure. The mind may avoid the discomfort of consciously admitting personal faults by keeping those feelings unconscious, and redirect their libidinal satisfaction by attaching, or "projecting," those same faults onto another."
Far be it from me to suggest that Fruedian projection is at the root of Coleman's behaviour of course. Its not as if he's going around accusing other people of being odious toads or anything.
Oh, hang on a minute...
Good post.
ReplyDeleteI hope you post more often. There is more pond life in Barnet than just the Toad.
Thank you for your kind comment Anonymous. You are quite correct in what you say of course.
ReplyDeleteBarnet is blessed with a great diversity of wildlife
The Barnet Eye has an alternative theory about Brians recent outbursts
ReplyDeleteaha ... Mrs Angry has already made many offers to Mr Toad to come and lie down on her sofa for some therapy, but sadly all in vain ... I note with professional interest, however his constant use of the phrases 'lone voice in the wilderness/dark' ... oh Brian, are you referring to your own feelings of alientation, in a world devoid of meaning, alone in the dark night of the soul? Oh dear, that is very sad. But it's never too late to make amends, and join the human race, even for you ...
ReplyDeleteInstead of which, he throws money at the problem.
ReplyDeleteOurs.
BC aka MTHGTG:
ReplyDeleteSo you will post more often?