[Gayle]

I almost hate myself for saying this but I can sort of see where he's coming from, in fact, I've said the same things myself (wonder where he got the idea).

It's not about rose coloured spectacles it's about accentuating the positive so that people outside of the town might not get such a negative view of it. As everyone says, there are lots of good things about living here but we tend to spend more time talking about the things that are wrong - mostly because you don't need to discuss the good things because they don't require debate.

I don't deny there are tons of things wrong with this borough and we all have plenty of cause to gripe most of the time but we should also try, wherever possible, to promote it positively or it will forever be that town that no one wants to come to because no one has a good word to say for it.