Subject - Eastserve ignores the Community yet again

ReplyPosted : (Thursday 11th October 2007 ) By - Technoboy (Unregistered User) Hi Everyone
Back for one last rant
This has got to be an all time low for the East Manchester Community, Sean McGonigle should be sacked for letting a thriving community service called Eastserve reach new low depths. The community has been totally ignored, Eastserve have used that word "Community" to great effect when needing money or some going for some award. They will argue and come up with a answer to my comments, but no one will doubt what I say if you look back and remember what it used to be like. From about 2003 Eastserve has steadily gone downhill regarding community involvement, poor management being the main cause, false promises and a network in need of a major overhaul.
I am fed up of hearing how Eastserve engage with the community, most of what is spoken about Eastserve is from the glory days (pre 2004). Many users will have been around 6 years ago, can you honestly say I am wrong, it has now gone from bad to worse. I cant blame MCIN, they did not make the decision to use the current Website CMS, if Eastserve wanted a new look or design why did they not ask the community for help. Eastserve has now become a typical rundown council service and in need of major regeneration, Sean should not have let it get in this state. The original concept has now all but gone, maybe it is also time for Eastserve to go, there are others who could take their place.
Things could have been so different had we had people with vision and a real commitment to involve the community, and to see it through. Maybe if Eastserve had concentrated on one thing, then we would not be so annoyed at being ignored. Identity was always a problem for Eastserve, I think Eastserve should have been a broadband provider only, then the word community need not be used and we would not be where we are today.
One last word about regeneration, I have seen the new builds in East Manchester, and I do not like them. Our climate is not best suited to wood design. Many houses being built now are a mixture of wood, metal and brick, and looking around most are already looking ugly and cheap. I remember fort ardwick, fort beswick and builds of that time, and I can see the current builds looking just as terrible in 10 years time. And who do we blame for this as well, Sean McGonigle, the principal regeneration officer for East Manchester. And dont even get me started on the false crime figures, and the none reporting of crime in East manchester. We in the real world see crime everyday, some of it very serious, shootings, stabbings, muggings, etc, why is the media not aware of it, could it be because we are in an regeneration area. If a gunshot is heard in mosside it makes national TV, if someone is shot or stabbed in east manchester it falls on deaf ears. Why is there a media reporting clamp down, come on Ace help me out.
Bye Everyone
Technoboy