| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Hounslow makes it into Rotten Boroughs | |
| Posted by: | Dan Filson | |
| Date/Time: | 29/04/09 08:27:00 |
| On schools, you are seeing a tendency towards control-freakery which others may not see as such. I see nothing wrong with any major political party encouraging its members and supporters to take up school governorships and take part in residents' groups. With school governorships, the local authority nominees - who are a small minority now of the total - are there to provide a link between the school and the education authority, and having political connections as some, though not all, of authority nominees have, is useful in that it enables a hot line to those in power. The LA nominees are not there as delegates for their party and in my experience do not act as such. Going back to the oiginal issue in this thread, why is it that Hounslow Council is both at Boston Manor and at Gunnersbury Park neglecting its parks and the historic houses in them, and why does it look to the salami sell-off approach to fund repairs etc.? What do other parties propose as an alternative? And what is there corrupt - as is slightly implied - in the building under the flyover proposal? The trouble is that this thread got diverted into a spat between a few people and lost track of the issues. |