Titbits – council rags, terror flags and whitewashed Hackney

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  • Want to advertise in the council’s freesheet Hackney Today? Contact Greenwich Council! Readers of the council’s rag, given out free to 100,000 homes, might be confused to find two advertising contacts listed with email addresses at Greenwich Town Hall. Hackney Council head of comms Polly Cziok confirmed to the Citizen there is a “temporary arrangement” where two Greenwich staff members handle adverts for Hackney Today, receiving a cut of the revenue. Ms Cziok said this arrangement, which followed Hackney’s own advertising person taking voluntary redundancy in February, would likely last for “two or three months” until another solution is found. Outsourcing advertising staff – whatever next!
  • Always with their finger on the pulse, Hackney Council recently draped banners across the borough with the message “HACKNEY IS THE FASHION HUB”, with one word on each banner. The move backfired when people noticed the white-on-black “IS” banners looked like an expression of solidarity with the murderous terrorist group of the same name.
  • A new PR campaign for the Dalston Vibe development near Dalston Lane accidentally makes a pointed critique of social trends in the borough. A four-minute video showing off its swanky new flats and local amenities appeared to be set in an alternate universe where everyone in Hackney is white.

1 Comment

  1. Muhammad Haque on Wednesday 6 April 2016 at 15:37

    You observe

    ” Outsourcing advertising staff – whatever next!”

    MY COMMENT:

    Well, worse things will happen in East London as far as the local Councils are concerned.

    There is a clear trend downwards in what you have reported. And in the majority of bad behaviour that you cannot report.

    Most people – who are neither beneficially compromised by their involvements as employees or as agents of the local Council due to other materially compromising interests – will know many cases, examples of bad behaviour to the Community as daily displayed by the Council.

    This is the other aspects of “Social Cleansing”, the degeneration of the standard and accountability of the local “democratic” support structure that ought to be for the Community.

    It is now the other engine that is making the quality of the life of people in the Community sink by the day.

    The absence of quality is filled by absurdity, as your “”outsourcing”” item typifies
    with alarming accuracy.

    Whether you intended to or not, that relatively small matter illustrates the empty, shallow core of “the Council”.

    It is devoid of common sense.

    It lacks integrity.

    It denies basic duty.

    Basic civic duty that is more than adequately paid for by THE PUBLIC, whatever the bureaucratic tag of the source of funding the Council annually is formally called, tagged.

    Social Cleansing against the Community is going on daily in, across East London where “the Council” is exposed in ever deteriorating states of irrationality, idiocy and ignorance.

    “The Council” lacks the intellect, the Morality, the Ethics and the Care, all of which must be present if it is to function as the the deliverer of the services that make such a difference to whether the local Community stands or falls.

    Each act of ignorant contempt by “the Council” to that duty is a denial too many
    as is each act of deliberate deprivation a criminal act of robbery and looting too many.

    Neither type can be compensated for.

    This is the stark reality of the Agenda for Socially Cleansing East London by “the Council”.

    The Council is being used as the tool for that Cleansing.

    1438 GMT London Wednesday 06 April 2016



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