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January 6, 2008
Offensive contempt for Parliament
Yet again this blog points out that all the many constructive points that have been made in the past few weeks by commentators on public libraries ( and reported here), were made and anticipated by Gerald Kaufman's Select Committee report of March 2005.
Yet the Ministers responsible, civil servants of the DCMS, the officials of the MLA, the senior local government officers and the representatives of the profession all disregarded that report and failed to treat it with other than offensive contempt.
Such behaviour is not and should not be acceptable. Those people should be brought to book for this act.
John Whittingdale is the new chairman of the committee- and before he embarks on another four yearly hearing on the public library service, it is to be hoped that this matter is brought to his attention so he can deal with it and the individuals concerned in the serious way their actions merit. We do not want a repeat.
Posted by Perkins at January 6, 2008 2:10 PM