1) could not have put it better myself. Just hope come the elections the people of Sandwell remember The Public, “Duckgate”, and the St Georges Parade, Wolverhampton voters recall the ticketing of one group of people at West Park, while others are let off scot free, and the fiasco’s that have been the fountain and new bus/rail station, and Walsall who believe its right to ticket old soldiers attending a remembrance parade. Lets get every sitting councilor out, and replace them with one’s who know in no uncertain terms if they fail to give the electorate what they want and refuse to listen to the majorities rather than minorities, they will be out next time too!

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“Wolverhampton has yet to release the results of its consultation.”

What consultation? First I’ve heard about it. Maybe this is what’s happened in Walsall, Sandwell and Dudley. To paraphrase Douglas Adams, was the consultation announced in a basement behind a locked door labelled, “Beware of the leopard”?

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advertised on website where??

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“Sandwell Council’s acting leader Councillor Steve Eling” said: “The cost to the council has been very little because it was advertised by press releases to all local media and on the council’s own website.”

Well that’s strange that we never heard about it till now!!!!!!!

Sandwell Council are only too eager to send round glossy publications to each house, telling us how good they are at saving the planet, its some rubbish about trees and open spaces etc, I don’t bother to read it because its all propaganda extolling the wonderful council and they send out 6 or 8 page publications telling us how wonderful the Sandwell Patient Care Trust is doing under Sandwell’s Labour Council, strange that because I couldn’t get an out of hours doctor to come and visit my wife who had collapsed in the bath, they were more than willing to call an ambulance out for me, anything that saved the doctor having to make a visit to a seriously ill patient.

We even have local Forums that people can attend, to give us the opportunity to have a face to face meeting with their elected representatives, but to find out when there are taking place is like trying to find out off an MP, how much they have fiddled in expenses, I think the people whose job it is to put out that information have signed the official secrets act so have to keep it quiet.

Because it’s such a well kept secret, usually at these meeting there are more council representatives than public, and that’s no accident, the last thing these councillors want to do is to have to face the people who are paying for them to have a luxury lifestyle.

Jim of Bearwood

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The what for who to do what now? Never heard anything about any of this.

We all know councillors are not particularly sharp or in touch with reality.

But even they should know if you don’t write to people and tell them when and where and why, the people will not respond.

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all “consultations” are given minimal publicity because they dont care what the public wants anyway ( lisbon treaty anyone ).

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