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  You're right David, I've been around a long time & I started as you indicate thinking I had the power to radically changes things & walk away if I didn't get what I wanted.
  
  You soon learn that as District Council Leader you are "small beer" with miniscule budgets & nobody is going to take notice of you shouting from Dover/Deal & how you are the special case. Everyone plays that game.
  
  You need to go to the places where decisions are taken & get yourselves on the committees where the power resides.
  
  You have to present powerful business cases & show you score higher than the next guy.
  
  It's not a case of we deserve it , it's how the return will show the power brokers have got it right.
  
  Work the system. It's the same for both main political parties.
  
  Until you've experienced it I don't think you understand or want to.
  
  That's reality.
  
  Bye bye for now I'm to one of those meetings where I hope to secure two projects that will deliver job opportunities in conjunction with the private sector.

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