Londoners Don’t Seem Bothered About Fire Station Closures
I find this story about public meetings on the closure of fire stations rather interesting. Here’s a paragraph.
Londoners have been turning up in single figures to meetings on Boris Johnson’s fire station closure plans which are costing more than £100,000 to stage.
A single resident attended events in Newham, Brent and Harrow while just two turned up in Barking & Dagenham and four in the City of London. Mr Johnson plans to axe 12 fire stations, 18 engines and 520 jobs to save £45 million from the fire service budget.
You can take several view on this from two extremes.
If you are a die-hard supporter of cuts and would vote for Boris at all costs, you probably wouldn’t go.
But I suspect, that it’s more down to the fact, that we rarely see a serious incident. I have only seen one this year and that appeared to be a fire in an empty building, which perhaps half a dozen appliances attended.
If only a few attended some of these meeting, it would seem that they weren’t even picketed by fire-fighters and their families.
So I suspect, that Londoners in general, aren’t particularly worried about the plans.
No comments yet.
The Anonymous Widower 
Leave a comment