A local Labour Councillor at work
Councillor Zoe Hopkins has a nice little blog - for some reason it showed up in my referrers, so it might be unfair to pick on her, but it is a fascinating insight into the world of a local Labour councillor:
It seems I’m having a high profile week, by my standards anyway. A photo of me and some of my colleagues from the Birmingham Women’s Aid event was in the Birmingham Post last week...
I’ve also been writing a press release today as we are going to get 23 Police Community Support Officers...
I had a meeting this morning to discuss recommendations for the You Are Your City scrutiny review I’ve been working on. It’s been a very interesting review, and the working atmosphere has been quite amiable for the most part. We even had a minor breakthrough in relations between the Labour and Liberal Democrat parties this morning when we joined forces in arguing against the use of a semi-colon in the phrase You Are Your City; Clean and Safe...
All typical meaningless fluffy Local Government stuff, but then the mask slips...
On another issue, I caught part of Tony Blair talking to the people on Channel Five tonight. I just heard the last question on climate change and Kyoto, because I was watching the Channel Four news where Margaret Beckett was talking about the same issue. She was quite vague - talking in terms of choices that people will need to make over the next 10-20 years in terms of changing lifestyles and consumption... I'm quite pessimistic about the whole issue, particularly with the U.S still refusing to sign up to Kyoto - how long will it be before making choices has to become active enforcement to try to address the problems of climate change?
"active enforcement" - now that is what it is all about in the end.
Comments
Aka
"The current voluntary option has failed"
I forget where I first read that, but it is one of the more chilling sentences produced by NuLab.
Posted by: Andrew Duffin | February 18, 2005 4:22 PM
Credit for unearthing the chilling "The current voluntary option has failed" goes to the Briff.
http://publicinterest.blogspot.com/2004/09/current-voluntary-option-has-failed.html
Posted by: Mark Holland | February 18, 2005 9:08 PM
I'd like to see New Labour actively enforcing the US to do toe the line on Kyoto, or anything else for that matter.
Posted by: eddy | February 19, 2005 9:11 PM
'the voluntary option has failed': so what?
littering is illegal, as is murder. so is putting sewage and industrial waste straight into rivers. (that's why we have fish in the Thames again, as opposed to otherwise).
got a problem with any of this?
Posted by: the ape | February 21, 2005 3:07 PM