Yesterday morning I was out in Eaton with local candidate Niall Baxter to help knock on doors. Interestingly the unitary issue was way down the list of concerns – it was beaten by the state of the roads, council tax levels, AWC, the fate of the ex-England manager and the driving test not being tough enough.
In fact the only person who mentioned it without prompting was a LibDem voter is massively opposed to the plans – and, yes, she will be switching to the Tories next year.
Not a single person in favour of Unitary, just one person against. Why isn’t this more of an issue? Or is it just us and the EDP that care?
November 27, 2007 at 11:34 pm
I can really Unitary was low down peoples priorities. I’d lose this one Antony settling on the Rural-Urban Doughnut! without taking sides, folk care about good key services provided at the lowest possible cost, not layers to achieve this, whatever political colour.
I got a stone through my window on saturday. The fact that over the weekend and evenings there aren’t the same amount of patrols as during 9-5 daytime mystifies me. One would have thought at Chief Constables puts his resources at the location, time and day crimes are committed? Apparently not if its Bowthorpe and a Saturday evening after dark. Monday 9am seems more popular with the rank and file.
AWC is much better, no vermin, smells and we can collect plastic bottles now, excellent service.
I can really appreciate those ambiguous on the end result of Unitary; yes folks have issues like my window, rubbish, street cleaning, idiot drunken teenagers outside, rush hour scrummage to work and litter.