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escotregen wrote:If that isn't bad enough, what about:
Glasgow Labour councillors on taxpayer-funded junkets to France and the United States as the axe falls http://m.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/14323625.Glasgow_Labour_councillors_on_taxpayer_funded_junkets_to_France_and_the_United_States_as_the_axe_falls/?ref=arc
escotregen wrote:RDR I agree that some pretty bad stuff does go on in the private sector (banks anyone?). My point was really meant as a counter-point to the hypocritical claims of (supposedly left-wing) politicians who talk as though 'all-in-the-'public-service-good-all-in-the-private-sector-bad.
escotregen wrote:Just as well none of us is going for a 'gross over simpolification'.
Mind you the Good Ship Public Expenditure Glasgow Rregeneration continues apace - seemingly not in the least publicly encumbered by governance worries (or even an awareness of them?). See this perhaps untimely latest PR production:
'Plans to transform Glasgow east end derelict sites get cash boost'
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/1434 ... ash_boost/
escotregen wrote:Problem ks that if we accept that generalisation (and I don't, I have known and know politicians who seem to be striving to 'Do Good') then that is to accede to the right-wing classic conservative line that, 'all politicians are in it for themselves, so just don't give them the power or the money'.
That then leaves the public good to the tender mercies of the private sector.
RapidAssistant wrote:I'll get my tuppence worth in - ironic given I am posting this on Election Day, but keeping the discussion to local government - the responsibility also lies with the electorate to vote the right people in to begin with. The trouble is that at local council level, turnouts at elections are notoriously low. And how many people actually take an active part and seriously look at what the parties are actually offering and make a decision based on this? More often than that the council elections are just used as a tool to give the Westminster government of the day a bloody nose, nothing else.
Then we have the cheek to complain about the muppets we "elected".......
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