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The Smithfield Gazette THE SMITHFIELD GAZETTE EDITION 154 October 2015 TIME FOR CHANGE Researchers have uncovered a move by the Policy and Resources Committee to overturn the compromise agreement reached between the tenants of Smithfield Market and the City of London in the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice on 5 March 2013 whereby the tenants accepted new leases with exclusive service charges while the City accepted responsibility for historic repairs, particularly to the Poultry Market, including the replacement of the roof. The Projects Sub Committee of the Policy and Resources Committee, chaired by Sir Michael Snyder, earlier this year voted to contest the decision to repair the Poultry Market, which resulted in Markets Committee deciding to halt all work on the project while other avenues were explored, including de-listing and demolishing the building. The ex-Chairman of Policy, Deputy for Cordwainer Ward, campaigned for his colleague Mark Boleat to become Chairman of Policy and a third member of the Ward has also been Chief Commoner even though the Ward of Cordwainer is one of the smallest Wards in the City. Cordwainer Ward has only 288 electors but that is actually irrelevant as there has not been a contested election in the Ward for the last twenty years. The current membership of the Court of Common Council includes many new and younger members and they should be concerned at the lack of democratic accountability in the City of London. The SMTA has declared its intention to campaign to make the City more democratically accountable by increasing the voter base. This alone will not solve the problem – it will also need more people to be willing to stand for election and ensure that no election in future is uncontested. THE SMITHFIELD GAZETTE - RIGHTS OF CITY WORKERS The SMITHFIELD GAZETTE is leading the fight to reform the rights of City of London workers. The GAZETTE is committed to pressurising the City of London to seek Government approval for a voting format enabling all workers in the Square Mile to be part of the governance of the City. QUOTE OF THE MONTH “Power is not something that we can bestow on another person. It is something he or she already has within and will struggle to retain. Empowerment means that we acknowledge the personal power each person has to make positive decisions and to take responsibility for them, a simple exercise in treating others with dignity and respect.” Gail Pursell Elliott SMITHFIELD GAZETTE 1 Printed & distributed by Smithfield Market Tenants’ Association, 225 Central Markets, London, EC1A 9LH Telephone 020 7248 3151 Fax 020 7329 6464 Email [email protected] THE SMITHFIELD GAZETTE EXTRACTS FROM THE SMTA COMMENT CHAIRMAN’S SPEECH ON THE OCCASION OF THE LORD The actions of the Policy and Resources Committee MAYOR’S VISIT TO SMITHFIELD highlight the weakness of the City’s voting system ON 28TH JULY 2015 which enables an inner circle to cling to power. The case of the Ward of Cordwainer which currently runs the City but has not had a contested election for years My Lord Mayor, to us your visit is not just a routine and is one of the smallest Wards in the City proves diary item. It is an acknowledgement of the how so few have imposed their will on so many for so importance of the bond between the tenants of the long. Market and the Corporation. I am pleased this year to be able to welcome you to Haberdashers’ Hall while The City is now exposed, there is no democracy here. Butchers’ Hall undergoes refurbishment. Voting systems determine elections as the national elections proved. According to the Electoral Reform We understand refurbishment more than most and Society, had the system operated on overall voter remind you that the tenants paid some £20million choice, the UKIP party would have won 80 seats and towards the Smithfield Refurbishment project in the Greens 20 instead of just 1 each! Every day some 1990s – a fact that is seldom mentioned in 350,000 City workers enter the City, but only a Corporation publicity. Many thought, and some still handful is put forward by their employers to vote. A do, that the Market would not survive in the modern reformed system should increase the number of world. The City expected it to ‘wither on the vine’. workers eligible to vote and make the outcome less We confounded those expectations due to the skill dependent on the will of the employers. and deeply entrepreneurial instincts of our traders. Entrepreneurs understand how to take on risk and THE LABOUR PARTY trust their intuition. Because we know and LEADERSHIP ELECTION understand the underlying strength of the Market in its current location we will use all legal means at our disposal to ensure that the City honours its side of the Jeremy Corbyn is today's man. Whatever the agreement that was struck in 2013 and proceeds with disappointed candidates felt, whatever reasons that the historic repairs, especially the replacement of the Jeremy came up trumps, the voting process made it Poultry Market roof, as it is legally obliged to do. clear the other candidates were clearly not leaders. For the first time Cameron is facing a person of vast It has come to my attention that Common Council experience and an ability to provide warmth and hope members may have been misled into thinking that the to many. Corbyn's change of direction on the EU - SMTA is divided regarding the future of the Poultry always an "out" man, now appears as an "in" man - a Market or that some sort of bribe to mavericks will be sign of his need to control the Unions, has he been effective. It won’t be! Anyone who thinks the SMTA forced to this turnaround in order to pay back the can be bribed must think again. And, in case you are debt? Our Political Correspondent in any doubt, the SMTA represents over 90% of the premises in the Market as a whole. It is a pity that THE VEGAN – B12 AND THE Markets Committee has still not officially sought the DANGER OF MENTAL ILLNESS SMTA’s opinion on the Poultry Market – but it isn’t too late – I am willing to discuss the matter at any time. And, for the record, there is no available space The UK food industry, the farming community, the in the Poultry Market – all vacant units have already meat producers and all those who work to uphold the been allocated to Smithfield tenants. standard and quality of the food on our tables shuddered when a militant vegan was selected by The Poultry Market is an integral part of Smithfield Jeremy Corbyn as his shadow environment secretary. Market. It cannot be considered in isolation – it is as important and as busy as either of the other two Does Kerry McCarthy know what B12 is and the buildings. Smithfield Market depends on the City dangers she imposes on the general public? B12 is the understanding the importance of the services it vital essential vitamin without which human beings delivers to the citizens of our great city and beyond. cannot avoid life changing defects. B12 is naturally absorbed by eating a diet involving meat and dairy Smithfield Market is one of the City’s most exciting products. A 50 year old vegan is likely to develop places and one of the last bastions of real character in brain damage within 7 years. Supplements will not a city that threatens otherwise to be totally subsumed replace a diet including meat. Muscle weakness, by the financial services industry. As Lord Mayor your fatigue, lack of energy, memory loss and even approval is a crucial factor. Together we can depression may follow. Hopefully loss of voters will overcome any problem we face and persuade others cause Corbyn to think again. to appreciate the importance of this wonderful Market. SMITHFIELD GAZETTE 2 Printed & distributed by Smithfield Market Tenants’ Association, 225 Central Markets, London, EC1A 9LH Telephone 020 7248 3151 Fax 020 7329 6464 Email [email protected] THE RETAIL MEAT EXPLOSION WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF 1954 BUTCHERS – HALL UPDATE Hooray! Smithfield is back - come and buy! Smithfield Market remains the heart of the meat John Manson Group trade in Great Britain as it has for hundreds of years, just as livery companies are the link to the traders of the past. Butchers’ Hall in Bartholomew Close, where High streets were still places of shop windows and liverymen and guests gather to discuss trade issues, pre-war wonder. You could park a car if you had one support the City and wine and dine, is currently closed and drool over the displays lovingly created by slim for refurbishment. However, the Worshipful Company elegant ladies anxious to gain your attention. But an of Butchers is alive and well with members enjoying emergence of powerful supermarkets was about to monthly Court luncheons at Ironmongers Hall close to destroy the warmth and happiness of the high street the Museum of London. and its charm. The Development Committee have spent many hours Before these invaders crushed them, the meat working on a multi million pound redevelopment plan retailers of the day, themselves anxious to profit from with a view to creating a better, more useable, space meat products from all over the world, energetically whilst retaining the beautiful and historic features organised themselves into various groups to market that so many enjoy. Whilst City planners have the meat, poultry and by-products. final decisions on what is acceptable, the Development Committee, of which I am a member, is Meat historian Norman Finnimore has researched the working to produce an enhanced facility with several leading retail groups of the time which we present to pleasant surprises when the Hall re-opens in around recollect the high-point of retail butchering and the three years time.
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