Enough is enough

I've had enough of people making negative comments on this blog.

Some of them are fair and designed to offer suggestions for improvements. These will be published but a lot are made by people who have nothing better to do that try to tear others to shreds.

Constructive criticism is welcomed.

It encourages us to do better not killing off initiative.

"Oh but you're always having a go at the councillors." you may reply.

Yes, that's my privilege. We elected them because they said they would do a job.

They put themselves forward. The job of promoting the best that's in the interest of  Ulverston.

Their function is to be in touch with what we want and carry this out as effectively as possible.

If they fail then we need to express our views in such a way that they listen. Their job is to listen and assess what it is the Ulverstonians want. Then having determined this they should attempt to carry this out using all the ability at their disposal.

If there is an agreed goal then they are at fault if they ignore offers of real help from the community, especially if this is free. We should then keep asking why they choose to ignore this help if it is repeatedly offered.

At the moment some of them don't like the heat.

Tough.

In my view the job of a councillor is to coordinate the talents in the town so as to achieve the best job possible.

It is not their responsibility to be experts themselves but to respectfully encourage and enable the best people in the town to accomplish impressive feats.

At present most of the councillors give little encouragement and sometimes even thwart those willing to give their talents and energy.

We suffer from a party system. People with limited abilities get elected. This is fine because their main role is not to achieve themselves but to determine what the people want to be done.

When they've done this then they can use all the political means at their disposal. But their efforts must not stop here.

They must be good at providing leadership so as to coordinate the available resources of people and money to achieve a desired goal.

In some towns, at a local level, people are elected for what they achieve and not for the party they represent. Towns where things get done have councillors that are almost entirely independent thinkers and there because people in the community know them as doers.

With the present system in Ulverston, the doers get frustrated and steer well clear of the politicians.

So lets concentrate on being positive and encouraging each other rather than destroying initiative with unconstructive criticism.

If you're anonymous and being negative - forget it!