Who is running the show
Friends and readers. Regardless of who you voted for, we should expect that whom ever takes power should be running the show. It seems this is not the case.
Unelected officials have the reins if Edinburgh sucks.coms article is anything to go by. These greedy sleazy no-goods are answerable to us, the electorate, through our elected members.
Now of course in theory that is how it is supposed to work, but our ruling party has become complacent after nearly twenty years-YES TWENTY-hard to believe is it not, and they seem to have more or less handed power over to these no-goods.
There are sleazy stories now on a regular basis, very reminisant of the last days of the disgraceful Tory national administration. And now they offer us mana from heaven in the guise of community councils. Well my friends do not be fooled by a meaningless talking shop full of Labour party cronies who will only do their master/mistress bidding.
Now how do you think they would manage that, very simple really.Load it with your underlings call it democracy, patronise them with a few office bearers positions, and keep out anyone who might be a danger to them. That way you can control the agenda and most of its input. Stage managed democracy. Of course if you are lucky enough or devious enough, you can get the chairperson of your choice, usually young and inexperienced at that kind of committee level. Tell them in coded languagethey are the best thing since sliced bread and bingo you own and run your very own non politcal ineffective community council.
The problem with that dead end thinking, is that you may well allienate experienced community activists, and thereby cause splits in your community and its toy council.That of course,you may gamble to work in your favour, but if it backfires and it may well do, then it could signal a terminal decline in rather short lived community councils.
So indeed if any of our local councillors, have engineered elected positions, that is put in place their own candidates, and we at Pilton Sucks.com would never believe such underhand tactics would go on[really] then we can look out for fun and games,we will not have long to wait. It will be interesting to see who the office bearers are in the various councils, and who has been excluded.
You can be absolutely certain of one thing there will have been exclusions, and place people put in to tow the party line and not rock the boat.
It would have made absolute sense to have your most experienced people in place so the councils could hit the ground running, with inexperienced people shadowing them to take over in say, six months to a year, thereby bringing new people on and encourageing them to be independant and assertive in their own right. But we are more than sure that in at least one and probably more comm/council gerry mandering will have gone on.
We asked the local bookie to quote us odds on the comm/council most likely to have had the rug pulled from under their feet, and have councillors pal/s in office bearers positions.
As they -the bookies were not sure of who was on what council they had, what they called an educated guess and here comes the odds for the comm/council most likely to have been rigged
11/10 ON -ROYSTON-WARDIEBURN
2/1 AGAINST WEST PILTON
4/1 AGAINST MUIRHOUSE SALVESTON
10/1 AGAINST any other council
the bookies will pay out on win only so have a flutter and guess who cooked the books.