| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Residents launch LBH Watch | |
| Posted by: | Phil Andrews | |
| Date/Time: | 06/08/10 01:39:00 |
| Richard It is natural and reasonable that many residents will feel the return to a two-party monopoly of political power in Hounslow, although both parties would appear to prefer that arrangement, has created a situation in which it will be more difficult to examine the workings of the bureaucracy and to hold it to account. It does not in any way follow from that that LBH Watch must ipso facto be an ICG front group, unless it is being suggested that all activity outside of the Conservative and Labour parties is somehow regulated and managed by the ICG, a flattering but quite ludicrous and paranoid scenario. The last meeting of the new group, held on Monday, was attended by two Conservative councillors. Presumably they too are part of this sinister conspiracy? I find it very telling Richard that the emergence of a residents' group with intentions to hold a Labour-controlled bureaucracy to account (although it being Labour-controlled is incidental) so obviously discomfits you. Is it the realisation that ICG members are still active and still wish to take part in local community work in spite of the election result that has flustered you so? If so I'm afraid that's what you get when you listen to David Giles. By now I guess it has dawned upon you that an election, and four years of hard work, was casually thrown away on the back of a very serious miscalculation. |