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Issue Number: 53 |
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Date:
Thursday 26 May 2005 |
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LOBBY YOUR MP OVER MADCAP CONTROL
PLANS
Parliamentary group of MPs tables Early
Day Motion
MPs from the FBU’s new parliamentary group have
tabled an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons on the dangers
of the regionalisation of emergency fire control.
Write to your MP and ask them to support 'EDM
229: Risks Associated with Regional Emergency Fire Control'.
You can do this simply and quickly.
Log on to the FBU’s Control CARe website
and then tap in your postcode. It will find your MP's e-mail
address and you can zap it off to them.
You can also follow the “Lobby Your MP” link from
the homepage of the main FBU website.
The six MPs who tabled the EDM are:
Andrew Dismore
John McDonnell
Tony Lloyd
Michael Clapham
Lynne Jones
David Drew
A big - and reckless - waste of money
The public sector spent £1.9 billion on consultants
last year, an increase of 46%.
Local councils, along with the NHS, are the biggest fans of
consultants. Last year they spent £230 million on consultancy
in 2004, up from £59 million.
A significant proportion of consultants are hired to implement
new IT systems.
Recent research commissioned by the FBU showed that Government
IT projects:
• nearly always result in major cost over
runs;
• suffer delays;
• the technology often does not meet expectations;
• projects are abandoned at enormous cost.
IT projects exceed their original costs estimates
by an average of 43%.
The union believes is extremely concerned that the IT-intensive
plan to regionalise emergency controls could easily exceed the
£1 billion mark, resulting in cuts to frontline services
and increases in council tax.
The madcap proposals are a big waste of money and will risk
the lives of firefighters and the public.
Fires not funny says artist
Artist Tracey Emin recently gave an interview in The Guardian
newspaper about her "tent" artwork
A year ago when it was destroyed in the Momart fire, Emin was
sickened not so much by the loss but by the media gloating.
“When has fire ever been funny?” she asks. “Two
of the firemen who helped save work died in a fire in Bethnal
Green a week later.”
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