1 January (Part 1) - A one sentence challenge
A
silly squabble has been
raging
on and off for a month over whether a resident’s question to Full
Council should include a preamble or whether it should be just one sentence. A
storm in a teacup if you ask me and typical of Council jobsworths with too much
time on their hands. It was ever thus and it keeps them expensively employed.
Mayor James Hunt was dragged into the argument but I cannot imagine him being
much interested in the precise phrasing of a question unlike some of his predecessors.
Having got hold of the somewhat rambling original questions can it be shortened and still make its point?
Here goes…
Is the Cabinet Member concerned about the
illegality or otherwise of unleashed ferocious dogs being walked on the
borough’s streets without the benefit of a Public Space Protection Order or the
protection that might be offered by a Dog Warden?
Not
too difficult was it? Let’s try a more difficult one.
Does the Cabinet Member have any plans to improve road safety on the route to Foots Cray Meadows via Bexley Lane which
is a busy road with sightlines obscured by overgrown vegetation and without a
pedestrian crossing leading to an unacceptably narrow entrance through a wire fence in a dangerous state of disrepair?
That takes me back to the days when Mick Barnbrook and his gang would formulate questions in advance of every Full Council meeting
in the hope that it would wriggle past the question censors and not be
filibustered by the Council Leader.
Ah, the nostalgia and no I am not going to get involved in that time wasting malarkey ever again.