Local services suffer from bad management
LET’S start with the media, if it is bad news, print it, fill in the gaps after, in your case local news tend to be, lets be honest, mediocre, but take letters for instance - knocking the Conservative party takes precedence.
The BBC must be top heavy with jumped up ex-university students, who, during their learning years spend their time demonstrating or protesting about something or other, with the result that we, the general public and licence payers, receive a politically unbalanced and biased view.
Take the present economic situation, where reporting is on the poor housewives who are struggling to survive.
These broadcasts are predominantly from the north of the country where, lets be honest, living is more difficult.
I went out for a celebratory lunch on Sunday and the Quays was stuffed with humanity and the restaurant was turning people away.
The situation in my opinion lies at grass roots level. There are those who “get up and go” and those who just “get up”.
Look at local services. Schools, I am not familiar enough to comment on
but hospitals and NHS in general are, in my opinion, suffering from extreme bad management.
Departments controlled by local government are, again in my opinion, a disgrace. Everywhere you go you see vehicles with highway maintenance scrawled all over the rear end. Can I ask somebody, anybody, what highway maintenance?
The northern bypass is lit up well enough to outdo Blackpool, but it has taken hundreds of bollards and thousands of man hours over many months - much longer than it should have there have been umpteen occasions when I have travelled the road when not a soul was seen, plenty of flashing lights, but lacking in activity.
But, go along after 3.30pm and there are no bollards as everyone, presumably, has gone home.
The cream of road transport is a Scania T cab and must cost an unimaginable amount of cash and the county council have at least one, probably more.
This vehicle has got flashing arrows to divert traffic. Why use a T cab for a driver to sit in all day doing nothing?
How, many millions have been spent on new gritters? What was wrong with the old ones and what has happened to them? They might operate for one month a year, so should have been in mint condition in 10 years time.
I shall never forget, a couple of years ago, on the Stonehouse road, two vans and three men, two with stop/go boards and one with a can of white spray paint decorating the pot holes.
Bad management? I, and I am sure a lot of other people will agree, or is it just me?
On a personal level, when is the western end of Longford Lane going to be resurfaced, (and I do not mean patched), and when after a shower of rain is the Tewkesbury Road through Longford not going to flood? I hear the cry “not our responsibility”.
I am now confined to mobility aids and it is noticeable that more and more folks are using electric scooters, it may not have been noticed by the establishment, nor the general public as a whole. but a very costly refurbishment of the hotel opposite Twigworth church has been completed but I and those afflicted similarly cannot get there without putting life and limb at risk.
We need the pavements extended on both sides of the hotel, not forgetting that for many years there has been a bus stop on that side of the road with no safe crossing.
Longford