Monday 19 September 2011

Can Councils Learn?

It seems they can! After deciding to delete the last remaining 'free' parking spaces in the Central Milton Keynes area, a decision based on stupidity and greed, word now reaches me of it's reversal. Apparently the sight of expensive parking spaces near offices remaining resolutely empty every day has led to a rethink. I'm not sure I thought councillors capable of anything close to common sense, let alone serving the people.

We should withhold more often. By making the spaces an embarrassment rather than the expected gold mine, the people have forced the issue. Maybe direct action should be deployed by the people more often. If the politicians don't think the ballot box has any relevance to them any more, perhaps we should withhold payments, for services expected but unfulfilled. The step after that I suppose is the one the Arabs have been taking recently?

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