Out And About
Friends and readers. As we wander around Greater Pilton we hear many different stories,some it has to be said we take with a pinch of salt others we take on board. As with many other communities we have our fair share of social problems and we try to deal with them the best we can.
But when we hear stories spread from outside we take a different view. On tuesday of last week 7-06-06 we were talking to one of our younger citizens about the evil of drugs and its repercusions on the community. His reply somewhat suprised us. He told us that he had heard one of our leading activists was a drug misuser, when we asked him were he had got this information, he told us one of his mates had told him.
Further questioning revealed the possible source of this information, we were not suprised when he told us that someone in the social work was talking about it. We are not conspiracy theorists but we have heard this rummor before. This is mischief making and we can guess who started it.
We are told mud sticks but not in this case, so beware when you are out and about that mud is not flung in your direction.Everything Pilton Sucks.com prints it can back up and is based on sound information. People come to us usually because they are to frightened to say it them selves. We should have our public bodies and representatives open to scrutiny, but more often than not this is not the case.
So by default they can get away with things which if open to scrutiny would not be the case. We were involved in an interesting debate recently in the west side of the city, a debate we have to say we have a great deal of sympathy with.
The Debate consisted of wether public bodies such as the local social work departments and housing offices should not have management committees made up of local people. It has to be said that this is a very attractive idea, and would contribute to opening these hithereto secret organisations to public scrutiny, this would go some way to stopping small minded individuals spreading muck to hide their own short comings.
This is something we will go away and think about and look at the possible disadvatages and advantages of such a scheme.But certainly it offers possibilities, and if the politicians disagree with it you can be sure it has merits.