Fascism rears its ugly face within UK local government!

It has now become quite apparent to many community activists that the service providers i.e. council officers and the outside agencies that they use and Registered Social Landlord housing officers, as well as being in charge of the running of the services within our civic society, are also oppressing the community. These service providers, many of whom are middle class, especially the ones at senior management level, are responsible for putting structures into place, which are designed to subjugate the community. The whole aim behind this oppressive action is to make the community passive. Central government agencies such as Government Office for the regions talk about emancipating and empowering working class communities when in reality they stand back and watch local government public servants put structures into place within the community which only serve to promote the outside vested interests and agendas of capitalists. These service providers are in reality accountable to no one thus giving them power to do whatever they like and treat people in whatever way they like. These are the very people who are now involved in bringing about the end to “Freedom of Speech” in this country through the abuse of the harassment laws. Many activists knew that the above service providers at civic society level would use the harassment laws to silence community activists who campaign against the oppressive way in which these people operate.

Central Government’s White Paper:

Since New Labour’s white paper on the running of local government was forced onto local government the power of decision making has been taken away from the main body of elected members and put into the hands of ten executive members or councillors. These executive members form what is called a cabinet which works closely with the oppressive council officer service providers in the decision making process. The majority of the councillors within the council are now in reality just Town Hall lobby fodders that have no power. In effect it is the council officers who now run the councils throughout the UK not the elected members. Many elected members are aware of the power that this white paper has given to the senior officers and the latter statement can be given even more authenticity by the recent behaviour of the Liverpool City Councils Chief Executive David Henshore’s argument with Mike Storey the Liberal Democrat leader of the city council. Here we witnessed the extraordinary case of senior officers of the council intercepting emails and phone calls of an elected member in an attempt to force through the use of stealth and ambiguous argument an elected council leader to resign from his post.

Standards Committee:

Central government has been responsible for bringing about a Standards Committee to monitor the behaviour of the elected members, yet no such body has been put into place to monitor the behaviour of council officers. Registered Social Landlords are supposed to be accountable to the Housing Corporation and the Housing Ombudsman, but he Housing Corporation and the Housing Ombudsman have no real power or say over the way Registered Social Landlords behave towards their tenants. Just like within the council administration all the structures, which have been put into place over many years by RSL’s are as well as enabling the housing officers to be totally unaccountable are oppressive and have evolved in such a way as to stop tenant involvement on a large scale and to silence and disempower tenants.

Are elected members being pushed aside?

When the elected member is pushed to one side and council officers and other service providers, such as Registered Social Landlord housing officer are give too much power in the decision making process within the running of civic society what follows is lack of accountability of these service providers and the eventual outcome is repression of the community which leads to the begging’s of fascism.

It happened in Germany:

What we are witnessing here in the UK is similar to what happened in Germany during the rise of Hitler and his fascist Nazi party. Social engineering within the UK is carried out within the community in a very subtle and surreptitious way and we as activist who are aware of what is happening have a moral responsibility to bring it to the attention of the wider community and the public. We cannot rely on the media or the press because the very people or dominant culture that are responsible for the subjugation of the populous own the press and run the media.