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November 18, 2011
Will public libraries be the downfall of David Cameron?
It seems improbable that the public library service could bring the end of the political career of the Prime Minister, but it seems to me that there is a small but reasonable and increasing possibility that that might happen.
It is astonishing how libraries have become news. Ten years ago the national papers would never have written about them and even The Bookseller- whose subscriptions come more from libraries than anywhere else only ever had two articles a year - on the publication of figures from CIPFA and LISU.
This morning 3 national papers have stories about libraries and 5 out of the 12 top industry stories in The Bookseller are about libraries.
There can hardly be a clearer and more obvious manifestation of the incompetence of Government than its handling of the simple straightforward matter of public libraries. Yet if one were to endeavour to trip over a daisy in the garden one could hardly be more spectacularly idiotic and useless than Jeremy Hunt and Ed Vaizey.
It is unbelievable and comic and goes on and on. One does have to believe that it could indeed bring the downfall of the Government and The Prime Minister. .... and Perkins will have been, again, the first to spot the possibility. She is often right (ask the Admiral!!)
Posted by Perkins at November 18, 2011 11:14 PM