[banjoman]

So, the people who have been elected by us , the people, in a democratic way, should then have to "request" from a non accountable or elected person?

No it should be the other way round and it is. The elected people take the decisions after consulting with professionals in certain areas. For example on gritting....I guarantee the people making the decisions had years of previous information, weather maps, metereologists , traffic and road experts..... and all those got it wrong. You only see the face of all that, which is the easy target