… (after “If something can go wrong then sooner or later it will”) is “Things can always get worse”.
It’s a year since I started writing this blog, and I can’t see much that’s changed for the better.
OK, we were treated to the spectacle of city councillors (who’d arrogantly decided to authorise pre-election contracts for the Bourne Hill project) being put up against a wall and shot by indignant voters. Although we also saw a misleading electoral campaign that local Liberals have yet to explain.
Otherwise Murphy was right. The insane idea of having a unitary authority seems to be a done deal and we will suffer accordingly. The Stonehenge tunnel plan has been buried, but without a Plan B that means even worse congestion at Amesbury. Our divisional police chief has based himself in Melksham; our Primary Care Trust (responsible for Salisbury GPs) is in Devizes; Salisbury College is now twinned with Chippenham; and emergency calls for Salisbury ambulances are handled in Bristol.
And oh yes, we are getting new offices at Bourne Hill, but more expensive because that is what we really, really want.
Happy new year, everybody.
***Recently I attended the Salisbury Rotary Club’s joint charity concert given at the City Hall by the Community Choir and the Community Band. It was a very enjoyable occasion ...but...
Could the management of the City Hall (and the Arts Centre for that matter) please get rid of those high tiered wooden barriers (see my photo)? They cause excruciating discomfort to anyone of average height because you cannot move your feet. The obvious solution to prevent coats and handbags falling down is to lower the planks and make them footrests.
Or am I fussing about nothing?
All true and others spring to mind as well. Flawed consultations which were rigged to give the 'right' answer; deposing the Acting Chief Executive, at a cost no doubt, and then hiring a new but more expensive one and £30k of our money given to another Council to fight a Unitary battle which was already lost.
What do we have to do in order to be represented by people with the best interest of their communities at heart and not those massaging their own over inflated ego's? (Would someone explain to Cllr Sample that constant reference to 'rolling his sleeves up' only conjours a picture of making it easier for him to get his hands into our pockets.) Elect only those running as independents with no affilliation to a National Party is the way ahead perhaps!
What does Unitary do to the Charter Trustees and purely City matters?
All true and others spring to mind as well. Flawed consultations which were rigged to give the 'right' answer; deposing the Acting Chief Executive, at a cost no doubt, and then hiring a new but more expensive one and £30k of our money given to another Council to fight a Unitary battle which was already lost.
What do we have to do in order to be represented by people with the best interest of their communities at heart and not those massaging their own over inflated ego's? (Would someone explain to Cllr Sample that constant reference to 'rolling his sleeves up' only conjours a picture of making it easier for him to get his hands into our pockets.) Elect only those running as independents with no affilliation to a National Party is the way ahead perhaps!
What does Unitary do to the Charter Trustees and purely City matters?
