tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4991896898760031.post1352869997489785872..comments2015-03-10T07:00:58.847+00:00Comments on @dhothersall: Blindcraft: A victim of budgets, not cutbacksDuncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11613809200344761194noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4991896898760031.post-62831372831068294222011-08-17T16:15:13.951+01:002011-08-17T16:15:13.951+01:00No mention of the previous Labour administration w...No mention of the previous Labour administration who failed to turn around Blindcraft and failed to get them into a position where they wouldn't rack up debt levels and then need to close six years later!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4991896898760031.post-33251611065384899242011-08-03T09:47:35.357+01:002011-08-03T09:47:35.357+01:00I guess this highlights the difference between cen...I guess this highlights the difference between centralist control and devolved control of budgetary decisions. Rationality is discouraged in both. The government will take credit in the former and abandon the process in the latter, both in the name of the interests of the electorate. It would be nice to think that, if the government was interested, they would have over ruled this decision on economic and practical grounds. But that would have opened them up to allegations of interfering in the council budgets. On the other hand, who are the council there for if not to defend the vulnerable. If nobody in the council chamber could mount a defence of Blindcraft on moral grounds, than what does it say about them? I suggest a campaign paraphrasing the famous statement by Pastor Martin Niemöller. "first they closed down the hospitals"....etc.jbaystonnoreply@blogger.com