Comments for jon bounds http://www.jonbounds.co.uk Social web & social media, consultancy, training and advice from a flâneur of the internets. Blogger, writer, broadcaster and runner of Birmingham: It's Not Shit. Mon, 14 May 2012 14:58:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on Two years is a long time in politics by Noel Dunne http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1821/two-years-is-a-long-time-in-politics/comment-page-1/#comment-2144 Noel Dunne Mon, 14 May 2012 14:58:00 +0000 http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/?p=1821#comment-2144 thank you Jon - integrity and thoughfulness at the core and no it's not defeatist at all - just the sense of the challenge of finding ways of changing the political status quo.  The political elite appears democratic - as I witnessed at the NIA Ladywood Count - but I suspect as psychologically narrow as all elites. thank you Jon – integrity and thoughfulness at the core and no it’s not defeatist at all – just the sense of the challenge of finding ways of changing the political status quo.  The political elite appears democratic – as I witnessed at the NIA Ladywood Count – but I suspect as psychologically narrow as all elites.

]]> Comment on Two years is a long time in politics by Andy http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1821/two-years-is-a-long-time-in-politics/comment-page-1/#comment-2141 Andy Wed, 09 May 2012 11:00:00 +0000 http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/?p=1821#comment-2141 You should've seen the shockingly negative and misleading campaigning from the 'No' camp here in Nottingham. You'd have cut up your party membership card. You should’ve seen the shockingly negative and misleading campaigning from the ‘No’ camp here in Nottingham. You’d have cut up your party membership card.

]]> Comment on Two years is a long time in politics by Jon Bounds http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1821/two-years-is-a-long-time-in-politics/comment-page-1/#comment-2140 Jon Bounds Wed, 09 May 2012 09:52:00 +0000 http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/?p=1821#comment-2140 When I posted a link to this on Twitter yesterday I said I wasn't sure if the post was defeatist or not. In a way it isn't, if only because I can see the need for change more clearly and at least I see one route that is blocked for the time being. As we're both West Wing fans—there's always a parallel to draw from Bartlett—this feels a lot like the social security fixing plot line. For a brief moment nothing was off the table and you could think into the future without the party-line ties to the past. I really do feel we've missed an opportunity for a generation. And that the generation from a few back has regained 'power' makes that a little more galling. Conventional politics doesn't seem to be what I'm going to spend my time on for a while—like you say a councillor should be elected on what they will do locally rather than on visions someone else has. Which does leave a council leader with a platform of potholes and dog shit.  When I posted a link to this on Twitter yesterday I said I wasn’t sure if the post was defeatist or not. In a way it isn’t, if only because I can see the need for change more clearly and at least I see one route that is blocked for the time being.

As we’re both West Wing fans—there’s always a parallel to draw from Bartlett—this feels a lot like the social security fixing plot line. For a brief moment nothing was off the table and you could think into the future without the party-line ties to the past. I really do feel we’ve missed an opportunity for a generation. And that the generation from a few back has regained ‘power’ makes that a little more galling.

Conventional politics doesn’t seem to be what I’m going to spend my time on for a while—like you say a councillor should be elected on what they will do locally rather than on visions someone else has. Which does leave a council leader with a platform of potholes and dog shit. 

]]> Comment on Two years is a long time in politics by jonhickman http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/blog/1821/two-years-is-a-long-time-in-politics/comment-page-1/#comment-2139 jonhickman Wed, 09 May 2012 09:36:00 +0000 http://www.jonbounds.co.uk/?p=1821#comment-2139 Great post, Jon. My input as you know was very limited, but like you I got to have a peak behind the curtain to see how things could have run, and I know that we've missed an opportunity. The plans that were being put in place to engage people in producing policy and making someone accountable for it was an incredible prize that the city could have won.  Just last night we were talking at home about local public transport, and what happens next with that. Will old stations be reopened? Metros extended? A mayor would have had the opportunity to spell out an achievable goal for transportation, based on what the city wanted, and would have been accountable to deliver it. The leader of the council by comparison has got their job based on having the most colleagues elected on a platform of getting the recycling done and the potholes filled (things which happen anyway, by and large). The level of disconnection between individual roads / wards and the needs of the city is immense - for all the less trivial reasons you've outlined above as well as my example of transport. Don't really know how to end this except to say - it's just a real fucking shame. Great post, Jon. My input as you know was very limited, but like you I got to have a peak behind the curtain to see how things could have run, and I know that we’ve missed an opportunity. The plans that were being put in place to engage people in producing policy and making someone accountable for it was an incredible prize that the city could have won. 

Just last night we were talking at home about local public transport, and what happens next with that. Will old stations be reopened? Metros extended? A mayor would have had the opportunity to spell out an achievable goal for transportation, based on what the city wanted, and would have been accountable to deliver it. The leader of the council by comparison has got their job based on having the most colleagues elected on a platform of getting the recycling done and the potholes filled (things which happen anyway, by and large). The level of disconnection between individual roads / wards and the needs of the city is immense – for all the less trivial reasons you’ve outlined above as well as my example of transport.

Don’t really know how to end this except to say – it’s just a real fucking shame.

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