Today five Barnet bloggers have sent a letter to the leader of Barnet Council with a list of demands.

Derek Dishman, John Dix, Vicki Morris, Theresa Musgrove and Roger Tichbourne have written to Cllr Richard Cornelius to “point out that the policies that have proved so disastrous and unpopular were concealed from voters at the 2010 election.”

They write: “The people of Barnet have spoken. The London Assembly result on May 3 was a resounding rejection of the policies of your administration and of a prominent member of your leadership team.

“As you were not leader at the time of the 2010 election, and most of your unpopular polices were not part of the manifesto, we ask you to consider the following proposals, with a view to changing the course of your administration.”

They make ten requests; that Brian Coleman is dismissed from the council’s cabinet, that Friern Barnet Library is reopened, that parking charges are reconsidered, that freelance consultants used by the council are paid 25 per cent less and that the council’s top earners receive a 20 per cent pay cut.

They are also requesting a halt of the One Barnet outsourcing programme and the dismissal of all consultants involved, the establishment of a public forum to scrutinize contracts with suppliers, a ten per cent cut to councillor allowances and that the council stops “harassing” people involved in protests against council policies.

The bloggers say: “In the year of the 100th anniversary of the Titanic, we ask: do you want to be the political equivalent of the captain who hit the iceberg?

“Barnet Council has had two years of unremitting bad press as a result of policies that were not declared to the public during the 2010 election. Now the people have spoken, and we the undersigned believe that you have no choice but to listen and to change course.”

In a statement Barnet Council said: "I am sure the letter will be dealt with in the normal manner of the Leader's correspondence."