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Here’s a new twist on the much lauded Lambeth Life saga. @cllrstevereed [protected public twitter account] is apparently:

“…musing on the possibility of Lambeth Council’s newspaper becoming a co-op owned community paper.”

Cripes.

This was the message coming out of the launch for the co-operatives fortnight event, staged as Westminster Central Hall on Saturday. I only found out via a RT from @coopparty, seeing as though the leader of my local council has blocked me from reading his tweeter updates all about his public engagements.

So whilst we’re still looking around to find out exactly what is meant by a Citizen’s Commission with no citizen representation, how the hell would a community run Lambeth Life actually work?

The Co-operative party believes:

“…that people will achieve more by working together than they can by working alone.”

Don’t we all, Comrades. But someone has to have the final say in subbing that Power to the People misleading headline.

If Lambeth Life is to become a true co-operative newspaper, then all 250,000 plus citizens of the borough must surly have a say in the editorial process. Subjectivity is out, objectivity covering all views within the borough would need to be represented and heard. Haven’t really thought this one through, have we?

Which pretty much sums up the entire implementation and yep, consultation for #lambethcoop. Policy seems to be made up pretty much on the spot, with the whole Nu Labour vanity project seemingly still having more questions and musings than answers.

I would wager that if the three politicians currently sitting on the Citizen’s Commission were to consult the citizens of the borough about Lambeth Life, the conclusion would probably be to question the very continuation of the propaganda publication.

And so with the musing of the future of Lambeth Life taking place during co-operative fortnight, maybe, just maybe, there is similar musings over how citizens of the borough can actually be invited to take part in the current Nu Labour closed shop that is #lambethcoop.

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