| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Carnage in Heston | |
| Posted by: | Raymond Havelock | |
| Date/Time: | 17/05/26 12:38:00 |
| If you think Hounslow is bad take a look at Ealing. It's the same but worse. Power weilding councillors and cabinet members far too arrogant or conceited to ever engage with their ward electorate unless they are affiliates or party members. Connections that are barely just permissible. Changing constitution articles during the election run up. Cosy relationships with developers and consultancies. Huge renumeration and portfolios which beggar belief for ordinary mortals to even be able to contemplate - hence the door open to over politicised advisors and appointees on salaries way above their true abilities. Blights almost every council. Serious issues (to local people) are dismissed and never responded to. So no surprise that all 3 in one ward were ejected for Lib Dems in a ward which has always had at least one Labour member. In the adjacent ward Labour remained but one of the councillors in that ward is responsible for implementation of schemes that were not detailed in the last manifesto and operates with a degree of divide and rule. He has one virtue. He is about the only one who responds. But exposes his lack of depth on issues and his answers are always evasive. A true politician. and why so many simply give up voting or bothering to engage. Similarly in Hounslow. Voters taken for granted, a stampede for contract giving positions by the same characters. And parachuted in candidates who cannot tell the difference between Brentford Dock and Brentford Lock ( a raw example from a good while ago but still pertinent ) Party Machine and influence from associates must be a nightmare for diligent councillors of any political colours but the way the Labour Party operates with it's dark side always lurking and never flushed out is obviously with big majorities more prevalent and with a tiny majority might make for a better performance all round. Just how many Councillors can be seen as ward and residents first and party dictate second ? Not many and how thick skinned they may must be. |