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COMMENT: ALMO is Labour's Dead Parrot
April 6, 2010 12:20 PM
Lambeth Labour's Leader has finally called time on its most cynical electoral con by announcing that its ALMO experiment will be wound up within a year. Even he cannot go into another election with such an abject failure hanging round Labour's neck like an Albatross, so he's given Lambeth Living twelve months to shape up or shut up shop.
For the tenants so cruelly hoodwinked by broken Labour promises of better homes and new kitchens and bathrooms when not a penny has yet been delivered - although shed loads of cash have been spent on consultants, glossy leaflets and general mismanagement - they already know what Labour politicians cannot face (or fess) up to.
Labour's ALMO, Lambeth Living, is about as dead as the parrot in the Monty Python Dead Parrot sketch - although nobody is laughing now at the comedians in the Town Hall who sold the pathetic creature to them.
When people complained last year that no repairs were being funded despite enormous rent and service charge hikes, Labour's Leader intoned that his pet ALMO was merely resting.
However, after a long period of silent introspection and with no sign of anything going on life-wise within Lambeth Living, even Lambeth's Labour Leader has now finally been forced to admit what everyone else realised long ago, that the ALMO parrot is dead.
Everyone now has the right to know about Labour's Plan B. After all their homes are at stake.
But first they need to ask Labour the following questions when they come knocking on their doors to vote for them over the next month:
" How much has Labour's failed ALMO actually cost us? "
" Why wasn't this money spent directly on improving homes rather than lining consultants' pockets?
" How much longer do we have to live in sub-standard homes?"
And maybe
" When is Labour going to apologise for selling us a Dead Parrot?"
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