Who Takes Notice Of The Voters?
I am having a clear out of loads of rubbish that has built up over the years...lots of old documents and newspapers etc...
How things change! I found a local free sheet showing a shop closing down in that horrible monstrosity you can see in the previous entry where it is being demolished...it's dated 2003 so that gives you an idea how long it's been empty.
The headlines alongside that story says that Sommerfield that was on our town for 24 years(a supermarket)will stay to compete against a new Tesco's supermarket that was being opened.
Before that it had been on the same site as other supermarkets but it was always there.
Guess what...they did not stay.
Tesco's earlier last month opened an even larger outlet 7 miles away from my town.
Another story...
Numerous times politicians tried to persuade the population to say yes to a unitary council and get rid of the various councils around various parts of the UK. This idea was usually instigated by the Government at the time.
I have found another free sheet from 2007 and it shows a group of councillors on Parliament Green in London who had travelled from across the UK and again the headline and statistics shout out "Voters say no to Unitary Council!"
Guess what...we are now governed by a Unitary Council.
A few years ago it was proposed that social housing stock should be transferred to a kind of housing association/charity...again, the local people did not want this to happen or the information supplied was not as clear as it should've been...
You guessed it...the housing stock was transferred.
Democracy in action...
How things change! I found a local free sheet showing a shop closing down in that horrible monstrosity you can see in the previous entry where it is being demolished...it's dated 2003 so that gives you an idea how long it's been empty.
The headlines alongside that story says that Sommerfield that was on our town for 24 years(a supermarket)will stay to compete against a new Tesco's supermarket that was being opened.
Before that it had been on the same site as other supermarkets but it was always there.
Guess what...they did not stay.
Tesco's earlier last month opened an even larger outlet 7 miles away from my town.
Another story...
Numerous times politicians tried to persuade the population to say yes to a unitary council and get rid of the various councils around various parts of the UK. This idea was usually instigated by the Government at the time.
I have found another free sheet from 2007 and it shows a group of councillors on Parliament Green in London who had travelled from across the UK and again the headline and statistics shout out "Voters say no to Unitary Council!"
Guess what...we are now governed by a Unitary Council.
A few years ago it was proposed that social housing stock should be transferred to a kind of housing association/charity...again, the local people did not want this to happen or the information supplied was not as clear as it should've been...
You guessed it...the housing stock was transferred.
Democracy in action...
posted by The Great Gildersleeve | 5:14 pm
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Indeed...the community has it's say! The people will get what they want! The chance to vote so the people's will will prevail.
Unless of course it happens to be something different to what the politicians want.
With the varied views of the public it is difficult to please the masses because there are so many opinions but when the result is so uniform and people said "No!"
it is so wrong
Then again Ireland said no to something(I forget what)that involved in the EU getting more power and they just kept bringing it back until the population said yes or fewer voted so it was passed through by default.
Now look where Ireland finds itself...It probably would've happened anyhow.
I can see more of this as the harsh measures start to bite...We're out of the recession don't you know...that's what we are being told but it's going to hurt you more as it gets better, that seems wrong somehow...
I'm interested you mention this because recently the subject of a Wessex City (combining Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch) has come up again. Every time it has been mentioned in the past the public has been against it, this time the three councils are considering it in a bid to save costs.
That is almost like a Unitary Council in all but name or making it official. It's happening by default on the grounds of supposedly saving money.
So perhaps had things stayed as they were a number of councils around here might've followed this plan...
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