Resident Satisfaction with the Council Plummets.

In 1997, Tony Blair took office to the strains of “things, can only get better”. 

We see from the Newham cabinet papers that (some of) the results of the annual residents’ survey have been released. For reasons best known to themselves, the authors of the cabinet papers have chosen to show the movement between only two years.

This makes little sense. It is impossible to determine any trends over such a short period.

The only reason that two years is taken over say, ten years, is to hide the trends. So, we did some digging.

An appropriate start date we have used is 2018, the year that Mayor Fiaz took office. Alas, we don’t have the figures for the intervening years, but you get a fair picture of what is happening.

You would think that things can only get better, but don’t count on it.