NO
FAITH
Even now that we have a shared council
in Derby, the party bickering still goes on. We
need leaders who will listen to our concerns and
are prepared to enter into constructive debate on
issues such as immigration, the erosion of our
nationality, crime, an end to stupid political
correctness, industries and jobs moving abroad,
rewarding economic migrants who have become
totally dependent on benefits and hand-outs, and
finally our withdrawal from Europe so once again
we can have our country back and are able to make
decisions in law without them being overruled by
a court in a foreign land.
Until we have such a group of people, that are
willing to stop trying to score political points
over each other, and are educated enough to work
together for the benefit of the peoples of our
country, and seriously listen to those that put
them in power, then we will continue to witness
the constant decline of this country, and the
increasing numbers who cannot see any future left
for them, or their children in this country, from
moving to countries that can provide a better
standard of living for them and a better
education for their children. Dennis
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COUNCIL OPINION
COUNCIL A
DISGRACE
I wonder how many of the people who make up
Derby City Council are actually Derby or county born and
bred? You'd think none of them are, the way they carry
on. They seem to be hell-bent on a course of destruction
and desecration. Derby has an absolutely disgraceful
record with regard to heritage, planning and
conservation. Over the last 60 years we've lost the
Mayor's Parlour, St Alkmund's Church and our jewel of a
railway station.
We've lost our open-air markets, our mainsteam
city-centre cinemas and our pubs have had all manner of
ridiculous, so-called "refurbishments" and name
changes inflicted upon them. Now Derby bus station. Why?
The bus station is in a prime position and there's
nothing wrong with it that spending some money won't sort
out. There are waiting rooms, toilet and washing
facilities and space for a cafe. What's the problem? Get
your wallet out, Derby City Council.
Try spending some money on restoration instead of
demolition for a change. I can't believe that the plans
for the Riverlights development and the Roundhouse site
include bars and restaurants. Just how many more does
Derby need? The entire city-centre is in danger of
becoming an "eating out" theme park as it is.
The council is intent on making an ugly town uglier
still. Lisa Howe
WASTING MONEY
The subject of blundering local authority staff
has cropped up again, this time over those traffic
surveys. It could also be about speed humps, the Five
Lamps traffic lights and the closure of nursery schools.
What puzzles me is how the people making these decisions
actually get their positions in the first place and then
how they manage to keep those positions. Councillors won
votes on the promise of removing speed humps, then
commissioned yet more surveys, at great expense, to find
out what we already knew - that the speed humps weren't
wanted. The council found this out right at the start of
this saga but put the speed humps in anyway.
And they've still not all been removed! We have seen
plans of alternative ways of improving traffic flow at
Five Lamps, along with the statement that the traffic
lights will not be removed. This is in spite of the fact
that the lights are hugely unpopular and, to anyone with
even a smidgen of common sense, the only way to improve
traffic flow and stop the increasing number of traffic
accidents is to get rid of them. In the early days of the
plans for the superhospital, consultants were paid to
come up with the stunning observation that, if you merge
hospitals, you need fewer managers!
It cost more than £60,000 to find out what virtually
anybody in the street could tell you within seconds of
being asked. And this was only the initial consultation
out of many, so it is no wonder that we can't afford
enough nurses and hospital beds. These are just a few
examples, and I speak from experience as I have worked
with various local authority departments, as well as
being one of their suppliers. Tony Blair keeps boasting
of how much extra money is going into local services, yet
we see very little improvement. He doesn't seem to have
realised that, if you give money to the people who have
wasted it in the past, then it will keep on being wasted.
The biggest frustration is that I have had management
experience with a multi-national organisation, a
successful sales career and spells as a manager, but am
currently driving trucks at about £5 an hour. Despite my
success, experience and capabilities, I have to watch
people making an absolute foul-up of jobs I could do
standing on my head. I even applied for a job with the
council dealing with traffic flow, cycle lanes and
traffic lights. Ironically, the letter turning me down
arrived on the Tuesday that the pretty coloured tarmac
surfaces around the Five Lamps traffic lights were
completed, causing worse traffic jams than in a Friday
afternoon rush hour! Anon
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