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  Bern, PC and risk adverse whether the same or separate are symptoms of an over regulated , interfering system that drains resources from front line services. In your working world you know that to be true.
  
  As for new blood and new thinking, I have said I do not regret new ideas and thinking. I have a very good contingent of new, younger councillors with a wide range of experiences, Roger will confirm that. They are coming thru. the ranks and we have a balanced Cabinet and Chairmanships of new and experienced. As I stated in the previous posting you can have all the new blood but you can't beat the system and have to work within it.
  
  We have now positioned ourselves in many strategic areas where decisions are made , county, regional and national and obtained designations that bring Dover priority funding within an exclusive grouping across the South East. You don't move forward without a firm evidence base-as you know- and you don't get the job done by sitting in Dover whinging.
  
  What I and others can't do is move forward without these designations, private investment and firm decisions for plannning policy being in place.
  
  There is no public money to do the job solely by District Councils.Indeed in my view the future of District Councils is very time limited.
  
  Unless the systems change, District Councils will voluntarily accept their own demise and merge with neighbours -as is happening in East Kent.
  
  They are too small to do the job and Counties are too large to be effective and accountable.
  
  So there you have it.
  
  Watty

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