| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reisdents launch LBH Watch | |
| Posted by: | Vanessa Smith | |
| Date/Time: | 29/07/10 15:17:00 |
| This is an absolute nonsense, people elect councillors to represent them, why then would they want to do the job themselves? For all your talk of 'empowering' residents they voted against it in droves. This smacks of trying to foist your version of 'community' on people whether they want it or not. People can still get good access to their councillors if the system isn't working as they'd like. In my experience, and it was something you poo-poohed when I mentioned it, officers can be obstructive, I think some of them, certainly not all, do not understand (or do not want to) the essential difference between an employed officer and an elected member. I lost count of the times I remarked to officers that they should put their heads over the parapet and stand for election when they were unresponsive or negative to something. Most were helpful and supportive but their were some who were a bloody nuisance and had an unfortunately perverse atiitude to members. I don't think that your new outfit is an ICG front especially, I just wonder why on earth you don't let it go and move on, get a proper job and enjoy life. It's like all this 'big society' twaddle, people want services they pay for perfomed and delivered by the authortities responsible, the vast majority do not want to go to work all day then come home and patrol the streets, or run local facilities for free. Doing voluntary work is one thing, and many people perform valuable service this way, but to try and run the country on the cheap in this way is taking the p*** big time. |