Very few tendered contracts see the same company holding it as began with it.It has become a simple way of spreading the Peacock feathers to attract buyers and sell out to make a fast buck knowing that the new owners will have to pick up the pieces. Very often the terms of contracts exonerate a new company from all the obligations of the contract.I do believe that the employees of Enterprise in Ealing work hard for their money and do their best, but also that they were equipped with the wrong plant and tools to do the job and are under resourced.The fault of that is from officers and councillors who looked at figures and not the nuts and bolts of how the operation works at the 'coal face'They were sold a car with seats missing.I can only assume that both the councillors involved and the officers involved were either over ambitious or naive or both. But they did manage to screw a well run service up badly.As a footnote, A friend of mine was involved in doing some filming at the vicinity of the Ealing Club at Ealing Broadway. It was so filthy he did not want his home town to be shown in such a poor light.He called the council and they cleaned the litter and broken glass within hours. They also promised to jet clean the area within 2 days. It did get done but not thoroughly enough.But at the same time people can be disgusting, vomit, human faeces, other human fluids, litter fag ends are all magnets for vermin and disease and these staff at Enterprise have to deal with all this all of the time.It would be better if the council deployed more enforcement officers and fined some of these people until they learn to behave in a civil way. Or at least do as they do in other countries and make them clear their mess up and the mess of others. Then we might be able to have a cleaner urban environment .
Michael Brandt ● 4607d