https://jamescousins.com/2009/06/another-lesson-for-cameron-from-wandsworth/ A (micro.)blog without a purpose. Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://jamescousins.com/2009/06/another-lesson-for-cameron-from-wandsworth/#comment-2206 Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:01:00 +0000 http://jamescousins.com/?p=1618#comment-2206 You seem to be seriously confusing pushing power close to the people with the idea that the local authority is “the people”. In Wandsworth, the Council under Lister for 18 years has become totally deaf to what the people say. All they hear is the words of their own self serving clique. The Council tells people what is good for them and then takes that as the people having spoken. Lister could never contemplate power really pushed close to the people. Leopards and spots etc

]]> https://jamescousins.com/2009/06/another-lesson-for-cameron-from-wandsworth/#comment-842 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:26:44 +0000 http://jamescousins.com/?p=1618#comment-842 Interesting post. Power does, as you say, need to be devolved. I hope Cameron has the nerve to see it through – councils will inevitably end up making mistakes (though that happens at the moment anyway) and things will get messy, especially if political opponents use the freedom in ways we don’t like. That’s what happens when the controls are relaxed and as Conservatives we should be comfortable with that.

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