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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
The council has stopped spraying weeds, at least in all but those cases where structural damage was likely to be extreme - to save money.
"People talk about cuts in spending but what about civic pride? I think what David Cameron is saying about the Big Society, is, in context, quite right. We need to go back to the 1950s and 1960s when people helped each other as a community. There has to be a better way than just saying 'It's spending cuts' and leaving it at that" says Cllr Marcel Choules, who also happens to be a former Lord Mayor of the city.
It's not our fault that community is a long forgotten past, a buzzword and nothing more, and has been all but destroyed by political meddling and unwanted experiments in social engineering. We can't go back to the 50s and 60s, the politicians have made sure of that, but that's a story for another article.
The gift that the Big Society will bring us is an excuse to cut back on everything, and a exhortation that we're the community, we should do it ourselves. Of course, we'll still carry on paying those taxes, and most people won't do a thing, but the few who do care and make an effort will shoulder the burden.
A spokesman for Exeter City Council said that "We used to spray weeds as part of the highways work we did on behalf of Devon County Council. When the county reduced the verge maintenance budget this year the weed-spaying requirement was removed".
There's no clearer way of saying that we, the council, will not do it, there's not enough money, but we'll try and shame you into doing it yourselves whilst swallowing every cutback thrown at you.
This is Britain - overgrown, suffering structural damage, infested with weeds of many kinds, and everybody who should be doing something passing the buck and making excuses.
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