| Topic: | To John. | |
| Posted by: | George Knox | |
| Date/Time: | 26/03/11 09:49:00 |
| Nigel’s point was that Councillors in Ealing could and should rightly take a cut like other politicians. He also complained about that stinking bribe of a car park which you oddly have chosen to ignore completely. Combined with other cuts perhaps then we would not have to see a proposal to cut libraries. Also the Council might consider and give a decent amount of time to funding activities in libraries so they do start to make an income and give time for the voluntary sector to see how they could contribute to running our libraries. Not many understand this new concept of Big Society and some assistance from the centre is needed. You suggest the poor little lambs of Councillors work their socks off. Well we have had clear evidence that some do not. Others of course do. However we don’t know how much time any of them spend on council work and so we have to take them on trust. Well for some that is not good enough. The Leader of the Council apparently does not seem to work full time for starters (he has a part time job). As it is some vital Council committee work is planned to be reduced so we get a reduced and poorer service than before. But I really don’t think for a minute that a prospective councillor would be deterred from standing if the basic Allowance – which years ago did not exist at all, were reduced by 10%. Without actually saying so it seems you are trying to suggest that Nigel (who I don’t know from Adam) is grandstanding and that it is OK to be scornful of him working for the community for a long period, which is a heck of a lot more than the vast majority. So to call him nothing special is no less than an insult. And it needs someone special to judge if another is something special or nothing special. You seem to be energised by balding white middle class ranks etc. Have you a problem with colour? I suggest you have a close look at the photos of the Councillors on Ealing’s website. Quite a lot do not fit your description. You may well be bald fat and ugly when you are older. And would anyone be interested in what you look like now? Yes we know the younger generation are struggling even though you are better off than many. The way you go on it seems that my own generation has not experienced the poverty - and worse - of today’s younger people. The younger generation may mainly not have time to stand as councillors (which generally is probably a great relief), but if the younger generation wish to do some volunteering then unless they are really pressed there is no reason why they should not make a contribution – great or small. My family have done it for generations and long before they became bald. Oddly none were fat. |