Get Satisfaction - with your Council?
From:
paul canning
Date:
May 25 11:54 UTC
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I blogged a response to this initiative, pointing out my experience with
fixmystreet - where my local complaint was surrounded by other ones yet to be
responded to.
Here's my point
'I don't think councillors, almost all of them anyway, have yet seen what's
happening on such websites and thought - ahah! if I don't address these
community issues I might lose my seat. Whereas if these issues made it into the
local paper even in one letter to the editor, they would.
There's a tipping point of recognition which none of the political parties and
only a few councillors have made.
It will happen but there's a political recognition here as much as anything
else which they need to make and perhaps those advocating this type of
engagement need to bang on about.'