Mad Dictators

[SteamyTea]

6 hours ago, Roger440 said:

Could i do do better. Absolutely, 100%

But you are not going to do it.  Seems like a fear of failure.

[Roger440]

3 hours ago, SteamyTea said:

But you are not going to do it.  Seems like a fear of failure.

 

Im retiring, so dont need another job, but regardless, i wouldnt get the job, nor would anyone else  precisely for the reason that one may have some competence. Not welcome at the council. I donate some of my time to the village hall instead.

 

Given ive run 3 business's, all of them profitable, all with excellent customer reputation, and one which i sold allowing an earlier retirement, with respect, id suggest i have a reasonable degree of competence that doesnt need further demonstration. You may choose not to believe me, but im pretty confident id not organise a change to bin collections that failed to cosider the 2 most basic aspects of that activity.

 

Aside from demonstrating someones utter stupidity, and dont forget, stupidity with OUR money, it does, however, raise broader questions, probably not for this thread, about how our political system results in totally inappropiate people to rising to the top.

[SteamyTea]

19 minutes ago, Roger440 said:

it does, however, raise broader questions, probably not for this thread, about how our political system results in totally inappropiate people to rising to the top.

There is a saying that 'bad things happen when good people do nothing'.

You are doing nothing, but feel entitled to criticise. To me there is a disjoint in thinking there.

[Beelbeebub]

11 hours ago, Roger440 said:

Could i do do better. Absolutely, 100%

Then do it.

 

Stop carping and become a parish councillor. You'll probably find things aren't as easy as you think and then have to endure people calling you useless and saying they could 100% do better.

[Beelbeebub]

34 minutes ago, Roger440 said:

 

Im retiring, so dont need another job

Retired people make up a large % of parish councillors because they have the free time.

[Beelbeebub]

36 minutes ago, Roger440 said:

I donate some of my time to the village hall instead.

 

And i bet everyone marvels at how well run the ville hall is.

 

Absolutely nobody whines about the booking system or the noise or the parking or the sound system or the kitchen not being laid out well or any of the hundreds of reasons people complain about the village hall.

Edited 1 hour ago by Beelbeebub

[Beelbeebub]

Running a business and local politics/volunteering organisations are different.

 

People don't really understand local politics and what they can and cannot do witness reform candidates running for country council positions on a platform of stopping the small boats - an area in which they have absolutely zero power.

 

I would suggest you try a turn at parish council - with your amazing competence I am sure you'll be able to turn things around and then you won't have to worry about the recycling or potholes or whatever irked you.

 

And in the unlikely event you fail you'll have learned a lesson in how even brilliant people with good intentions can't always succeed.

[saveasteading]

1 hour ago, Roger440 said:

inappropiate people to rising to the top.

I've found the blockages in progress to be right in the middle of local authorities' hierarchy.

The hands on people who have good ideas find they get passed up the chain then stop.

The highly competent top administrators give instructions down the chain until they stop. At the same level and even the same person, who has reached their level of incompetence and wants nothing to change.

I imagine it us veey difficult to remove that blockage: in fact one chief executive of a LA pretty well told me as much.

We can get rid of the incompetent politicians, at least in theory.

 

As for praise for the people who do something for the community.... it exists but is drowned out by the complainers who expect something for nothing, but don't contribute.