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Another fortnight, another letterbox delivery of Lambeth Southwark Lewisham Life.

*sigh*

Hang on - since when did our South London border cousins become part of the whole #lambethcoop farce? Ever since all three local councils became Comrades, united under a (steady) red flag flying South London state of independence.

Cripes.

“Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham are set to work together in a bid to cut costs and help protect front line services.”

Hurrah!

Let’s hope that the protection of council jobs is also part of this new co-operation, what with our friends @LambethLabour attempting to bury the bad news of the 400 redundancies on the very same day it rolled out the folly of #lambethcoop.

In a move that was trailed in the @LambethLabour manifesto, our friend @cllrstevereed confirms in Lambeth Southwark Lewisham Life:

“The challenges we face as inner-city London authorities will continue to grow in importance as the coming decade unfolds.”

Inner-city London authorities indeed, but it’s a mighty long way from Waterloo in the north of Lambeth all the way out east to Lee Manor over in leafy Lewisham.

I wonder why the Big Three have chosen to make a pact amongst themselves, and not invited, say, neighbouring Wandsworth into the political pow wow? Could it be perhaps [scented hankie over the nose] that those evil Tories are in control over towards the west of Lambeth Town Hall?

And if the challenges facing inner-city local authorities are so pressing, why wait until after the local election to make local authority cuts collectively as part of the Big Three? Why didn’t @cllrstevereed not offer the hand of local authority co-operaion over the Southwark border some six months ago?

Ah, I see.

Having a Big Three pow wow may just be able to help reduce some of the waste that local authorities churn out. The local Pravda (ouch) that is Lambeth Southwark Lewisham Life could be a better place to start looking, rather than redundancies for the poor council staff.

Of course it could be argued that @LambethLabour started this Big Three pow wow process sometime ago. Shutting swimming pools that neighbour other borough borders has led to Lambeth citizens relying upon the public services of other local authorities when it comes to leisure.

Still - at least it means that the @SthLondonPress reporter that has a ban on entering @lambeth_council property is now once again able to get involved in covering the local Lambeth patch. Sort of.

Elsewhere in Lambeth Southwark Lewisham Life and the Letters page is the usual mix of the irrelevant and the impudent.

Amber Cuttill, the Alumni Relations Intern from, um, the University of L******er writes in about a University reunion being staged in the City of Death.

Graduates from L******er University may be alive and well in Lambeth, but it will take much more than a letter in Lambeth Southwark Lewisham Life to drag my hairy arse back up to the City of Death ever again.

Oh - and I win the Cynical South London Bloggers competition to get the most ridiculous letter published in Lambeth Southwark Lewisham Life.

See you in a fortnight, suckers.

That’s Life!