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Just to pick up Diana's point about the skill levels of councillors. Its a fact isnt it, that to be a councillor you require absolutley no skill levels in any field whatsoever. You can be as thick as two short planks and still be a councillor. Thats part of the core problem of the whole system.
A couple of hundred people vote for you and before you know it you may be handling projects worth millions, but with no prior skill level whatsoever or indeed relevant experiance of any kind. Its almost madly amusing, if it wasnt so odd.
In real business, and I have some experience here, you wouldnt hire a dockworker to do your accountancy, you wouldnt hire a roadsweeper to run your IT system...but that logic all gets suspended in the weird world of the Councillor system, and thats why we spend our whole lives engaged in some sort of mad rumba dance...three steps forward, three steps back, three steps forward, three steps back, on a circular dancefloor...same problems still exist, that were there 20 years ago, as someone said earlier. Round and round and round it goes, where it stops nobody knows...
The best that can be said for the Councillor system
a. its democracy in action
b. some have enthusiasm and it makes up some of the shortfall.
But many of us have the ghastly feeling that the lunatics are in charge of the asylum!