Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Councillors: YES YOU! Getting a feeling yet???? | |
Posted by: | Nick Brown | |
Date/Time: | 23/03/11 15:55:00 |
I forget who, but someone wrote "What I like about Robin Hood Is that he understood and got into his mind That Britain is the most undemocratic, Democratic country of its kind" The point being that Democracy is about being elected on a mandate to deliver against your promises, and being accountable for that delivery. What has gone wrong with the system is that we now pay millions of public servants to ensure that there is no accountability, so these reviews simply become another job creation scheme for people who deliver very little. The Councillors are our elected representatives who should be helping to ensure value for money. Instead they are often in league, with prolonging the agony. The joke of course being that each time they do it, the public sector boys get paid, we pay for it, and we get the pain, and more often than not it makes no difference. This is what needs to change, so we need to know what our councillors stand for, it is a matter for them to convince us, then we vote for them, and if they deliver they get re-elected. That is Democracy. (dêmos) "people" and κράτος (Kratos) "power" That is Rule by the People. That is not Rule by unaccountable public servants taking decisions behind closed doors or, as happenned at the Chiswick Day Care Centre Scrutiny meeting last week, where Labour Councillors voted with their microphones turned off, presumably because they have something to hide. These people cannot be trusted to act in our interest. As I have said before the reason why the cost of running the Public sector has increased from 10% GDP to 43% GDP over the last 10 years is because they are looking after their own interests at our expense. Did you know that the pension provision for the Public sector is the same as that for the whole of the rest of the country, with the top 10% of civil servants accounting for over half that pot. This is why we are all in trouble. The size of the problem is similar to that of the banking crisis, ie around a trillion pounds. The difference being that the public sector cost happens every year. (The Japan disaster is estimate at 150 billion, ie 15%) To give you an idea of how big one Trillion pounds is, if you lay £50 notes down flat you get £500 per millimeter. A trillion pounds will take you past your house, past Mt Everest, past the Aeroplanes, up to some 4 times the height of Mt Everest. That is a staggering sum of money, this is the basis of Rip Off Britain. and why the cuts are necessary, however there is no need for those cuts to be in front line services. |