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Topic: Good old days
Posted by: Arthur Breens
Date/Time: 26/02/25 16:14:00

That's when we had Area Committees with published agendas and where the public could speak. If you missed your chance or thought of other things to add you could turn up at a Councillor Surgery in a hall near you..maybe once a fortnight. Your Councillors were elected on manifesto promises. Hey you knew where you were.
If that was a bit formal you could read the excellent and widely distributed Ealing Gazette. This had news items about how good or bad the Council was behaving but it also contained informative statutory notices licencing, traffic schemes etc. All gone.
Imagine my surprise when recently I picked up a Hounslow free newspaper with 16 Ealing Public Notices at Asda between Islworth and Twickenham. Ealing might as well have published these in the Stornaway Echo. What did those notices cost us? £500 a go?
Please tell me I am an old duffer and that social media and smart phones give us all we need to know or has democracy has been replaced by secrecy?


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TopicDate PostedPosted By
Good old days26/02/25 16:14:00 Arthur Breens
   Re:Good old days26/02/25 17:32:00 peter king
      Re:Re:Good old days26/02/25 18:24:00 Simon Hayes
         Re:Re:Re:Good old days12/03/25 18:12:00 Mark Evans
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Good old days12/03/25 18:57:00 Simon Hayes

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