Mise à jour sur la pétitionProperly fund our Library as a statutory town centre library for Crystal Palace.Open Letter To Labour Politicians In Lambeth, Croydon and Crystal Palace
Robert GibsonLondon, ENG, Royaume-Uni
21 mars 2016 — To: 'lpeck@lambeth.gov.uk'; Helen Hayes (helen.hayes.mp@parliament.uk); steve.reed.mp@parliament.uk; hoeyk@parliament.uk; Newman, Tony; Wentworth, John (John.Wentworth@croydon.gov.uk); 'Pat.Ryan@croydon.gov.uk'; Alisa.flemming@croydon.gov.uk; jbrathwaite@lambeth.gov.uk; mpbennett@lambeth.gov.uk; 'Francis,Niranjan Cllr'; 'Bee, Kathy'; Trakas-Lawlor, Wayne (Wayne.Trakas-Lawlor@croydon.gov.uk); Avis, Jane (Jane.Avis@croydon.gov.uk); andy.simmons@southwark.gov.uk; Angela.Wilkins@Bromley.gov.uk; Richard.Williams@bromley.gov.uk; Steve.o'connell@london.gov.uk; inside.croydon@btinternet.com; Jerry Green (jerry.green85@googlemail.com); trickyskillsjase@hotmail.com; 'Jonathan.prynn@standard.co.uk'; Laura Swaffield (lswaffield1@gmail.com); samantha.booth@croydonadvertiser.co.uk; gareth.davis@croydonadvertiser.co.uk; 'hannah.walker@slp.co.uk'; 'mira.barhillel@standard.co.uk'; 'jane.mackenzie@private-eye.co.uk'; 'newsdesk@croydonguardian.co.uk'; 'newsdesk@croydonadvertiser.co.uk'; 'editor@standard.co.uk'; 'news@standard.co.uk'; 'Dave.Hill@theguardian.com'; 'yourlondon@bbc.co.uk'; catrionamace@yahoo.co.uk Subject: For Goodness sake wake up. See below what the community of Crystal Palace is being told by Lambeth Libraries and Tim Godfrey from Croydon. This is not why anyone voted Labour in Crystal Palace you have all totally let down the people of Crystal Palace / Upper Norwood if you let this car crash of a disastrous policy continue. The Upper Norwood Library Trust has always fought for management of the building and retaining a professional library service with funding from both boroughs. Every single library user will feel totally betrayed by Labour. We will do our very utmost to defend our community and our library service and to hold every politician to account who does not side with us. We had a unique formula with Funding from Lambeth and Croydon for serving cross borough need for 115 years and now its being smashed up. We haven’t spent 5 years of our lives battling Croydon and Lambeth over the library to be happy with a community centre with no library staff or any decent provision of library service. Lambeth can put this right but for whatever blinkered reason no one is making this right Lambeth own head of libraries delivered a solution on a plate instead of working with staff and the community you are backing some back of an envelope totally uncosted PR disaster and Croydon is going to follow Lambeth blindly into the same mess. I promise you Labour will feel the impact of its library policy across from Waterloo to Croydon. By whatever means is available to us we will hold the politicians who have failed us to account. If you really don’t think we aren’t capable of using the media, law and politics for the next two years to elections you don’t know the people of Crystal Palace or Lambeth and believe me what ripples out from Crystal Palace will go five ways. Dulwich & West Norwood constituency and countless Lambeth wards have tried to tell politicians the impact of destroying services and communities rather than standing by them is doing. I’m seriously considering whether I can still be a member of the Labour party. If I leave it will be in a very public way and I won’t be leaving by myself. Labour is acting like the Tories voting for things they know that they are wrong. Trying to say they are not decimating library services because a building is still open but there is no staffed service is utterly dishonest and dangerous. To save libraries is a piddling sum, getting a handful of developers to pay into a fund for extra planning gain or to get them to hand over their ground rents would sort this all out instead you are going to create sores all over your constituencies and wards that will only fester. Please do something before its too late, if you think Momentum are worrying, you haven’t seen anything yet. Yours in complete and utter exasperation, Robert Gibson Labour Party Member Chair of Upper Norwood Library Campaign and former chair of Upper Norwood Library Trust Member of the Friends of Lambeth Libraries Board of Crystal Palace Chamber of Commerce “Upper Norwood What's going to happen to your library? Upper Norwood Library and three other Lambeth libraries will become self-service with books and computer access provided by Lambeth Council in buildings run by other organisations. Lambeth and Croydon Councils will jointly fund the Upper Norwood Library Trust to run the building as a community hub. The library will continue to run as it is until 30th April 2016, when the building will be handed over to the Upper Norwood Library Trust and the library will become self-service.”
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