Saving the planet or saving capitalism? June 15, 2012
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Speakers: Patricia McKenna (former Green Party MEP), Kerry Fleck (CPI), Alberto Hogan (researcher in sustainable design).
▸New Theatre (43 East Essex Street)
I hadn’t seen Patricia McKenna’s name around in a while. Is she still active politically?
Wasn’t she involved in PbP or one of those?
The last time she went for election in Dublin Central, she self-torpedoed with quackery about the MMR vaccination. It certainly cost her my vote, and I had been a big McKenna admirer for many years on several issues.
Wikipedia claims that she’s doing a degree in TCD right now.
I think She is involved in The Peoples Movement.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/politics/time-to-debate-the-future-of-public-services-16172760.html
I though this insidious little piece from the Belfast Telegraph deserved wider airing. It’s by the head of Deloitte’s public sector practice in Belfast. She is very careful not to mention the interest of her employer and clients is naked profit-driven self interest. Instead there’s a lot of touchy-feely bollocks about being ‘thought leaders’ for ‘reform’ and ‘starting a debate.’
She also doesn’t mention that the poll question on which her piece is predicated was hopelessly loaded. The question was in essence ‘Would you be OK with privatisation so long as no reduction in service was guaranteed?’ In reality such a guarantee would either not be given or else be worthless.
If she was being honest she would have admitted that this poll is intended to be an weapon in a continuing ideological battle.
I am also reminded by a piece Denis Bradley wrote for the Irish News some time ago which touched upon the murky world of consultancy. His main point was that in the north the public sector has quite a lot of money and that the private sector has rather less and in effect its the job of consultants like Jackie Henry to do what they can to transfer money from the former to the latter.
The former bit of PwC that is now in IBM has been sniffing around Irish local authority budgets for some time now, under the PR umbrella of “Smarter Cities”. Gurdgiev was involved, before he went off to work for Ganley.
In the interests of ‘reform’ or ‘starting a debate’, – could not there be an Annual Open Day Meeting of all Housing List applicants; – so that they, the applicants, may overview the local housing situation?
In a small town newspaper today, I just read how the local Chamber of Commerce held it’s AGM in the local Civic Offices.
This; is tremendous.
Sometimes the plain, ordinary, ‘dooers’ – just, show the way?
And so, for all the talk of ‘reform’, local gove. ‘reform’; – they just went ahead, and appropriated the Civic Offices.
Well done.