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February 17, 2008
Ministers
In the ten years since New Labour became the Government of the UK there have been quite a number of Ministers who have had some direct or indirect responsibility for the public library service. I bumped into one of them, by chance, this morning and we had a friendly chat
'I still read all the stuff about libraries," he said, "It's surprising and a shame that it has been a Labour Government that has destroyed public libraries"
I agreed with him.
For what it is worth my view of that group of people is that they meant well and wanted to improve the library service but did completely the wrong things because they didn't assess the problem properly. They must take responsibility- even though they only superintend the activities of local councils in this matter, but at least it was good to hear one of them admit what has happened.
Posted by Perkins at February 17, 2008 11:20 AM