[access-uk] Re: Charity for blind hits out at Bromley council
- From: Jonathan <digitaltoast@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:54:24 +0000
I forgot to mention the outcome. No, we didn't get the funding, and
the council got kicked out shortly after at the next election, and
then I moved away anyway! So I don't know, they might have got it
back. I must ask!
In retrospect, it wasn't worth all the time and hassle just to see
them squirm, but it did draw local media attention to some of the
council's bizarre funding decisions just before election time
(co-incidental) :)
On 11 January 2011 16:46, Ankers, Dave (UK) <Dave.Ankers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Did they reverse the decision?
>
> Cheers
>
> Dave
>
> Make the council squirm. I did, and they HATE it!
>
> A council who was funding a project benefiting LOTS of blind people in my
> area decided that they could no longer fund the Ł800 per year.
> Just Ł800.
>
> So I asked the council how much it cost them annually to translate all their
> benefit material into a variety of foreign languages.
> They wriggled and squirmed and evaded. Eventually the figure of Ł45,000 came
> out.
> Subdividing that into number of non-English speaking people of that group who
> may possibly ever use that leaflet, it came out at Ł200 per potential user.
> For a leaflet.
> The icing on the cake was that no-one had actually DEMANDED the leaflets be
> translated.
>
> The moral of the story is; if you're a blind English-speaking tax-paying
> resident of the county, sorry nothing for you.
> If you wish to turn up can't be ***ed to learn English and would like some
> help claiming benefits, well, which direction would you like us to bend over
> for you?
>
> It makes me so angry, especially when idiots try and claim you're being
> racist for even questioning such grotesque unfairness.
>
> Not going to make political capital by naming the political hue of the
> council at the time, I'm pretty sure you can guess that one!
> Needless so say, local papers LOVE that sort of thing. Worth submitting a FOI
> request just so:
> A: They know you're onto them and
> B: The satisfaction of watching them trying to explain it away in the local
> media :)
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