| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Hounslow Matters? | |
| Posted by: | Vanessa Smith | |
| Date/Time: | 17/07/19 10:43:00 |
| I can only agree completely with your analysis, a good investigative local press is a godsend where local issues are concerned. How well I remember the days when reporters from local papers went to council meetings, interviewed councillors, 'phoned you up, and papers published letters from vastly opposing views -as you and I will know! Then it was all over the front pages and in the Letters to the Editor column on a weekly basis. Seems modern media does not serve local people half as well as a good old newspaper. Also it contributes to making elected members more remote with this obsession of digitalisation and providing council services online, forgetting in the process there are still a considerable number of people who are not connected. Combine all that with the 'cabinet' system of local government and I think we have the perfect storm, too much power and influence in the hands of too few people, not a healthy situation. How a council department (housing), with less properties in their remit than they've ever had, can make such a pig's ear of the most basic functions is quite beyond me, that senior council members have been informed of this over many months and still nothing has changed is nothing short of mind boggling. |