Information or propaganda …….
It’s a fine line, whether what The Liberal Democrats and I put out locally is information or propaganda. You probably have your own view, and if I’m honest I’m sometimes not sure myself.
Those who read the comments on the site will see a pretty critical one published last night in response to the piece about the traffic lights. The anonymous reader just sees it as a piece of self-promotion on my part, and who is to say that there’s nothing in that?
At the same time we live in a world where lots of people walk past problems. Some don’t even notice. Others notice but just walk on by anyway.
When you offer yourself for election you take on new responsibilities. You become expected to notice problems, and expected to act on the ones you see. You are then judged on how you live up to those expectations.
In the light of that I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say what you’ve seen, what you’re doing about it, and what happens.
So in that spirit I’m pleased to report that some of the potholes I identified on May 2nd have now been filled in, some listed for work in the coming weeks, and Spencer Street recognised as having multiple patching needs. Indeed it is described as “needing to be considered for a scheme to include kerbing and channels”.
Unlike the traffic lights, for most issues there isn’t an overnight solution - but it’s good to make a start. Rome wasn’t built in a day. But it was built. And it was built by a whole lot of people each doing their bit. You can do yours by reporting road and streetlight defects to http://www.durham.gov.uk/feedback.nsf/Highways+Fault+Report
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It costs £45 a year for this website, and £100 every time you put out a Focus leaflet across the ward. A little bit of self promotion is very hard to criticise when so much time and money is put into the creation and distribution of media.