Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,397
#1
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,540
#2
Thanks Bob.
Bear-baiting indeed and with DDC being the bear, just not sure who/what, is doing the baiting.
Roger
Guest 977- Registered: 27 Jun 2013
- Posts: 1,031
#3
Roger Walkden wrote:Thanks Bob.
Bear-baiting indeed and with DDC being the bear, just not sure who/what, is doing the baiting.
Roger
The residents (voters) who signed the petition?
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#4
Not bear baiting just a big need for more openness and less 'we will only inform the public if we really have to about what is going on'.
There seems to be to much unnecessary secrecy and definitely a lack of information from the DDC.
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
- Posts: 8,664
#5
To be fair, Jan, the district council does a lot of things and it does communicate about most of it. I mean, there are numerous committees which sit monthly at which the public are able to see and hear what goes on; if you think the council is making a pig's ear of one area you can attend the appropriate committee's meetings. Alternatively you can trawl through all the gigabytes of agendas and minutes of the council and committees to find what you want. Of course the printed minutes don't mention much of the discussions and certainly don't report the body language and facial expressions of the councillors, or the squirming of the poor officers. In particular, the minutes do not report which councillors voted which way; if you want to know how your elected representative voted, you have to be there, which I think is wrong. At last night's planning meeting the agenda and public information pack ran to well over 100 pages and I'm sure that is not untypical. It's the job of the press to filter out a few nuggets each week which might interest us, but of course they are generally more interested in publishing the bad rather than the good, as that's what sells newspapers.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
- Posts: 10,540
#6
Good post there Peter. I wish others had your insight.
Roger
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
#7
We'll said Peter..
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,397
#8
Sue Nicholas wrote:We'll said Peter..
Back to school Sue! I spy a greengrocer's apostrophe.
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
#9
Well spotted .Need my glasses:.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#10
specsavers spring to mind.
