“You get more satisfaction from a councillor!”
The words in this headline were spoken to me by a resident.
He had a small local issue and had been thinking of going up to the council offices to sort it out. Then he thought better of it - why not go and see his councillor because “you get more satisfaction from a councillor.”
This set me thinking. Its a terrible criticism of the local council if people think they’ll get better treatment if they get a councillor to raise their case instead of dealing with it themselves.
Resident, councillor, we’re all just neighbours and equal human beings. There should be no difference in the way we are treated.
And if ordinary folk thought their problems would be dealt with sympathetically and courteously their councillors would have much more time to do the strategic thinking they should be doing instead - like considering countywide education, value for money from the budget, or building up the local economy.
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