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Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob
In my humble opinion, Local Councils are far too big and attempt to do far too much. I would much rather see them stick to providing basic services: street cleaning, planning, etc. The danger in attempting to be all things to all people is that one inevitably ends up giving superficial service rather than truly excellent service because one has spread ones resources too thinly.
The current shape of Accrington, both physical and social, is largely the legacy of our Victorian forebears. Constructed largely by entrepreneurs, charities and industrialists with minimal interference from the borough council of the day. I do not believe that it would be a bad thing to relax many of the controls that councils have accrued over the intervening years and once more give those who have the drive, vision and money the opportunity to take a more hands-on role in reshaping the borough to make it a place that welcomes business and enterprise. Freed of the dead hand of beurocracy the town would once again flourish and the petty tyrants who infest the party political system would have to look elswhere to get their ego's stroked.
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i couldnt agree more!!! i was going to suggest a similar idea but refrained from doing as i didnt want the forum to think who does he think he is???, i have met some very good people who work at the councils and these good people get supressed and their ideas are usually stolen for their bosses own agenda. one major diff - with a private council rather than a public scale one, you dont pamper to the pc brigade and you have more freedom off speech plus you can have the crack and send emails without the quangos suspending you on long term PAID LEAVE !!!, plus the people in the community realy know whats needed and in private enterprise staff suggestions are a big success story, i would be a failure without them