Published on
November 23, 2006 in
Politics.
Building a successful local community, arguably, depends on the support of a strong integrated local community who can become politically involved and hold development up or drive development quickly forward to a successful completion.
Building a successful integrated community must therefore be the starting point for local development and this applies to all people in the community, not just integration between different races or ethnic origins.
‘Fun rural communities can blossom through active social and community network building‘ provides a light hearted but challenging account of the continuing need for communities to work to remove the barriers to more social integration within rural social communities and a call for the support and encouragement for those working on bringing rural people together.
Examples of successful rural community workers are welcomed.
Published on
November 21, 2006 in
Politics.
The bio fuels revolution has been scientifically with us since the days of Henry Ford. Ignorance of the harm we were doing the planet has led us to take the easy and non-renewable route of oil. Now we realize that we urgently need to adopt carbon neutral driving and transport habits, but the oil lobby has a huge vested interest in protecting their liquid gold reserves by lobbying Governments to proceed slowly.
Consequently, the bio fuels revolution must be customer led with ordinary people finding ways to buy their bio fuel that bypass traditional oil company dominated supply systems.
Read how farmers and farming can join directly with ordinary people to save the planet with bio-fuels
Published on
November 14, 2006 in
Politics.
Official UK Parliamentary People’s Discussion Forums must be introduced forthwith because they would combat electoral detachment and perhaps even reduce the extremist’s resort to riot and terrorism.
Furthermore, It must be a legal right of every UK citizen to have their question, policy issue or point properly debated fully in public on the Official UK Parliamentary People’s Discussion Forums.
Is the UK Government likely to institute Official UK Parliamentary Discussion Forums? Anybody who has seen on the television or heard on the radio Ministers of the Government avoiding straight answers to straight questions from interviewers must doubt it.
Can straight answers to straight questions of policy be so dangerous? Even if straight answers are inconvenient, surely this is better that a detached electorate and vastly preferable to an angry detached electorate, riots and terrorism.
Official UK Parliamentary Discussion Forums in which the ordinary electorate can engage in dialogue with the State must be instituted forthwith with no half measures.
The current one way system of hierarchical consultation that favours lobbies, partners and cliques no longer works and will lead increasingly to social fractures.
Why Official UK Parliamentary People’s Discussion Forums must be introduced – full detail.
Published on
November 6, 2006 in
Politics.
My Local Government District Council wants to build new Local Government offices in the face of much opposition from a long standing local community campaign in our local area.
Our local ruling party District Councillors, who are mainly pretty elderly, seem to think that young people need no more than a waste paper bin to kick around our streets in the UK and that comfy offices for Council employees and Councillors are more important than giving young people somewhere to go and things to do in the evening.
I think community facilities for young people are more important than comfy Council offices and so do many others in our local area.
Local Councillors must be made accountable for their extraordinary decisions and must be required to defend their arguments in official and properly constituted public Internet forums.
Currently, you are lucky if they even acknowledge your email or letter. This is wrong and must be dealt with.
Communities Secretary Ruth Kelly as part of the White Paper discussion on ‘Effective, accountable and responsive Local Government’ and the UK Parliament must legislate to require Local Government Councillors to defend their decisions in official Council provided public Internet forums.
Those District Councillors who are unable to adequately debate these issues and who are effectively being re-elected on a blind party ticket will be exposed and booted out. A consequently more knowledgeable electorate will be empowered to elect District Councillors better able to do the job.
