Blueprint
I don’t know about you, but in all the spy stories I read as a kid, when the spy got the blueprint he could do anything; build the submarine, assemble the nuclear bomb, whatever. The blue print was a detailed document.
Not so the new county council’s blueprint which is to be discussed by the cabinet on September 11th. If the “taster” provided to the scrutiny overview committee is anything to go by it its just a rather vague recipe for “motherhood and apple pie”.
It was given a pretty effective panning by members of all political persuasions, frustrated that four months into the new council all we’re getting is buzz words and platitudes when what we really want to know is how we’re going to ensure that service standards don’t plummet across the county in April 2009.
Of course, we’d prefer services to improve, but since it will take a miracle to maintain them in the first instance in the absence of any clear cut plans, improvements may have to wait!
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