[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by Graham Jones

No. Council has very few powers now. It passes the budget thats all. Plus any constitutional changes and passes the minutes of meetings. Thats it. Everything else ends at the Cabinet. Its a very closed system designed to fast track desicions

So when a prospective councillor tells me what he will or won't do if I vote for him he is in fact wasting my time as there'll be nothing he can do to change the way things are?

I was joking when I said "Hyndborg BC" but it's beginning to sound like I wasn't far out. If this is truly the case then I fear the council doesn't represent the electorate at all and it makes not one ha'porth of difference how the residents of the borough feel on any subject.

I'm beginning to feel very depressed.

No wonder the Ardale Clock hasn't seen the light of day again. How long before a Panopticon ends up the same?

If HBC cannot "maintain" the Coppice (although I'm baffled as to what there is to maintain about a hill - the monument and shelter haven't been touched for years except by vandals) why is there this idea that a Panopticon up there is going to produce funding from some external source?