After 20 years loyal service to RBKC, Trellick Tower and Worlds End Estate, the service was today handed over to another supplier who won the service via competitive tender. When we attended today to hand over at 7am and again at 2pm with the keys no one from the new company was available or had visited the staff on site who will be there 24/7. The staff had limited contact with the new company and had no telephone numbers to make check calls and had been given a pair of black trousers, 2 shirts and a sweater for their uniform, talk about frugal. We asked, as we removed our 32-page book of assignment instructions, where are the new instructions for the staff, they showed us a 1-page sheet of bullet points. Whilst we appreciate cost is an element of any tender process, this is a client who most recently housed victims of The Grenfell Tower disaster, corners were obviously cut during that episode of appalling management and again we feel it may well happen again due to ongoing poor management and financial constraints, it goes without saying that handing over a 400k plus contract should be overseen by the client, if they can be bothered and the incoming supplier, if they have staff to do so!! Sobering thoughts for those poor tenants!!!!!!!!
It’s a sad state of affairs but unfortunately its part of modern-day life, “Terrorist” they’ve always been here, but today this crowd of cowards need a lesson in humanity therefore we propose;
An island in the middle of shark infested waters surrounded by stinking swamp, laden with mosquito infested malaria, how’s that for starters? Food, water and shelter, well it’s there you just have to find it, not our problem. No police, guards or barriers, all the time in the world to sit around and plot. No rent, electricity or water rates, no on cost to us the civilised element of society, just drop em off and forget about them. An average island would hold around 25,000 tenants give or take the odd 10,000 that die of disease malnutrition and the obvious murder, hey you can’t have everything. Sometimes the answer to all our problems lay in the past, after all, “you cant know where you going unless you know where you’ve been” Its not such as bad idea, after all Richard Branson has Necker Island a 30-hectare island in the British Virgin Islands just north of Virgin Gorda, ours wont be so welcoming and has a one way ticket.
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