That is wonderful news! Congratulations. It does require more effort to win an election than anything I’ve found to date in DOING. Mainly because I am one not 11. Your analysis is entirely correct that people become consumed by the nature of government even with good intentions. One of the ways I’m trying to get around this is by avoiding email. Only getting involving where absolutely necessary. Try to get involved in minimum committees and father start your own one preferably with just you in it! Though a good one to involve yourself jn is Finance. I’ve found the whole thing slow and effectual, far too many people involved to make effective change. Still figuring it out 9 months on but keeping to myself and just heading out and engaging with local people.
Why does it take so long to count the votes?
Anyway let’s stay in touch as I’m new to this too.
Well done. I’m so impressed with people who write about what we face and actually get involved too.
Particularly struck by your point about amalgamating government districts in the interests of 'efficiency'. This is happening everywhere all over the world - in the UK, district councils are gradually being abolished, being bundled up into so-called 'unitary' councils for whole counties. The trend is obvious: keep removing the bottom layer up the government pyramid, layer by layer, until we are left with one layer only - the UN as the world government. Voting becomes an historical blip and it's back to 'do as you are told, serf!' but now on a global scale with surveillance and tracking.
I think a memo must have gone out Bettina! One local story as I spoke to people was about a man who borrowed the key to the local hall for the local veteran's/returned services day. For years, he turned up to the local council and signed a book and took the key. One day after the amalgamation, he turned up to the council chambers and was told that now he had to log in via a "portal" and when he did, he had to answer 50 questions - so he just gave up. The whole agenda seems to be about centralisation - until there is just one big organisation!
Thanks so much for the feedback Alison. It looks a hard road ahead because the final result will not be known for another week and it appears as though there may be more people remaining who are part of the old guard. Still - you have to make a start somewhere.
Thanks for the great tips and particularly liked the idea of starting your own committee of 1! The finance ultimately is the most important and as you can imagine, it is almost impossible to find financial information.
The vote counting is extraordinary, given that there are only 15,000 votes. It is because of the complexity of preferential voting and the number of candidates (60) for the 11 positions. Then who knows what is happening behind the scenes?
That is wonderful news! Congratulations. It does require more effort to win an election than anything I’ve found to date in DOING. Mainly because I am one not 11. Your analysis is entirely correct that people become consumed by the nature of government even with good intentions. One of the ways I’m trying to get around this is by avoiding email. Only getting involving where absolutely necessary. Try to get involved in minimum committees and father start your own one preferably with just you in it! Though a good one to involve yourself jn is Finance. I’ve found the whole thing slow and effectual, far too many people involved to make effective change. Still figuring it out 9 months on but keeping to myself and just heading out and engaging with local people.
Why does it take so long to count the votes?
Anyway let’s stay in touch as I’m new to this too.
Well done. I’m so impressed with people who write about what we face and actually get involved too.
Particularly struck by your point about amalgamating government districts in the interests of 'efficiency'. This is happening everywhere all over the world - in the UK, district councils are gradually being abolished, being bundled up into so-called 'unitary' councils for whole counties. The trend is obvious: keep removing the bottom layer up the government pyramid, layer by layer, until we are left with one layer only - the UN as the world government. Voting becomes an historical blip and it's back to 'do as you are told, serf!' but now on a global scale with surveillance and tracking.
I think a memo must have gone out Bettina! One local story as I spoke to people was about a man who borrowed the key to the local hall for the local veteran's/returned services day. For years, he turned up to the local council and signed a book and took the key. One day after the amalgamation, he turned up to the council chambers and was told that now he had to log in via a "portal" and when he did, he had to answer 50 questions - so he just gave up. The whole agenda seems to be about centralisation - until there is just one big organisation!
Thanks so much for the feedback Alison. It looks a hard road ahead because the final result will not be known for another week and it appears as though there may be more people remaining who are part of the old guard. Still - you have to make a start somewhere.
Thanks for the great tips and particularly liked the idea of starting your own committee of 1! The finance ultimately is the most important and as you can imagine, it is almost impossible to find financial information.
The vote counting is extraordinary, given that there are only 15,000 votes. It is because of the complexity of preferential voting and the number of candidates (60) for the 11 positions. Then who knows what is happening behind the scenes?
I'll look forward to staying in touch.