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Everybody is a very nice person in their own right - well almost everybody,( Myra Hindley wasn't very nice). But not everybody stands for public office and invites the electorate to give them a mandate to manage the borough, and then proceed to make such a mess of it that we all wish that they hadn't bothered. And then get really upset when we, the electorate, berate them for their lacklustre performance. Nearly all the current crop of councilors will have made promises at election time to get on top of the refuse collection fiasco - have they done it? Doug and Sandra were given the job of tackling crime three months ago and in that time have they managed to make one iota of difference? It is Rix who is charged by the council with the regeneration of the boroughs run down areas and what do we see, half measures, funding that mysteriously dries up and a lack of imagination that is comparable only to the degree of hubris thus far displayed.

It strikes me that the people of this town have been handed the s**tty end of the stick by HBC so often in the last thirty years that they now have come to expect nothing else. To be perfectly frank, I couldn't care less if Doug and Sandra's hearts are in the right place or not, the location of their viscera is a matter of complete indifference to me as it must be to many others. I want to see RESULTS !

I do however agree with Stanleyguy's suggestion that the HBC Management Team have as many, if not more, questions to answer concerning the woeful state of decline in the borough, as our elected incompetants.