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News and Comment September 2023

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6 September - The wheels are falling off all around us

CapitaThe wheels seem to be coming off local government after 13 years of cuts in Government grants, Birmingham being the prime example right now. A lot of family silver has been sold off, parks in Bexley and car parks in Havering. It is bad enough for the local economy when Councils are forced to raise parking fees to unaffordable levels - up to £7·50 an hour in Abbey Wood. The result is 144 Amazon deliveries to this address so far in 2023 with very little money spent in the borough and nothing in Bexley car parks.

Councils sure know how to damage local businesses but some more than others. Havering across the river is selling off four town centre car parks. That should be good for local traders.

Local authority suppliers are feeling the pinch too. Capita is accused of selling software that isn’t theirs to sell and thanks in part to their inability to hold on to data securely their share price is down to just pennies.
Pirated software?

From Belfast Telegraph. 13th August 2023.

Bexley is still outsourcing more services to Capita.

I am right now listening to the Conservative Opposition Leader in Birmingham on TalkRadio. He has uncomplimentary things to say about Capita who he claims overspent by five times on their IT system known as Oracle. That is the system which was a let down at oneSource nearly four years ago which Bexley fortunately wriggled away from. What sort of incompetents do not learn from their mistakes?

 

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