Comments on: What do I do?

By: Back seat councillor | James Cousins

Back seat councillor | James Cousins — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 12:57:39 +0000

[…] on the back benches. It was an interesting experience, I’ve posted before that I often ask myself whose life is improved by various council meetings and recognised that the vast majority of people don’t care about full council meetings. Now my […]

By: Julia Matcham

Julia Matcham — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:35:00 +0000

‘A simple test I use is to ask whether anyone’s life was improved by my attendance. All too often the answer is no’. Yes I despair of the time I waste feeling obliged to do my citizens duty. On the whole I feel I just meet a need for the Council to have evidence that they consulted people. Very little evidence that they took/take the slightest notice,
I have been amused by your rather unusually honest and refreshing writing. I looked you up because of the Battersea Buzz meeting, which I now assume you were the bright spark behind. Very inventive and good way of doing it. Congratulations. You spoke well too. So explain and defend how the Council justify closing two youth clubs and charging kids for the Battersea Park playground, putting libraries on half time…effectively threatening to close York Library (in the most deprived of all locations) I should have written a placard…isn’t this exactly the opposite of what they should be doing? Putting the Council tax up a bit would serve the poor far more than the rich. I don’t defend criminal behaviour, but I do see where it comes from.
Julia Matcham

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Tweets that mention What do I do? -- Topsy.com — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:14:19 +0000

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