| Topic: | Re:Re:Residents launch LBH Watch | |
| Posted by: | Phil Andrews | |
| Date/Time: | 05/08/10 14:01:00 |
| "Your post focuses solely upon Councillors, the focus (admittedly not the sole focus) of LBH Watch (reading the first post of this thread) seems to be the conduct of Officers." Not entirely correct Adam. The focus of LBH Watch is on the whole system and how it serves local people, or not as the case may be. It is also on the culture that prevails at the Civic Centre. Where possible LBH Watch endeavours to keep individual personalities out of the picture. Those with a genuine desire to improve things for residents and to open up and democratise the process of local government will welcome the launch of this new initiative. Those who believe residents should be seen and not heard and who want to preserve the old way of doing things irrespective of whether it serves the community (and forward-thinking elected members) or not will feel threatened by it. I think the debate on this thread has made that perfectly clear, and has given us an initial sense of who swings which way. |