Comments on: “Bringing this agenda towards fruition” http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/06/bringing-this-agenda-towards-fruition/ contains extended scenes of moderate fantasy menace Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:16:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Andrew Duffin http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/06/bringing-this-agenda-towards-fruition/comment-page-1/#comment-107899 Andrew Duffin Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:58:09 +0000 http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=4561#comment-107899 I was going to say that the best way of "Empowering communities to influence local decision making" would surely be to, erm, just let them make the decisions? And cut out all those middlemen with their offices, lease cars, laptops, and pensions... But then I remembered that "communities" is government-speak for "chippy self-appointed minority spokesmen", so probably those are the last people we want making decisions. I was going to say that the best way of “Empowering communities to influence local decision making” would surely be to, erm, just let them make the decisions? And cut out all those middlemen with their offices, lease cars, laptops, and pensions…

But then I remembered that “communities” is government-speak for “chippy self-appointed minority spokesmen”, so probably those are the last people we want making decisions.

]]> By: West http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/06/bringing-this-agenda-towards-fruition/comment-page-1/#comment-107866 West Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:18:29 +0000 http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=4561#comment-107866 Anyone wondering why 'empowering local communities' is a bad idea, need only look at what has been happening in south Belfast. It will institute NIMBYism and the postcode lottery in all public services. This is the core of David Cameron's agenda and it is already being adopted by the New Labour. Anyone wondering why ‘empowering local communities’ is a bad idea, need only look at what has been happening in south Belfast. It will institute NIMBYism and the postcode lottery in all public services. This is the core of David Cameron’s agenda and it is already being adopted by the New Labour.

]]> By: hellblazer http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/06/bringing-this-agenda-towards-fruition/comment-page-1/#comment-107827 hellblazer Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:05:54 +0000 http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=4561#comment-107827 While I now tend to second-guess my initial impulses to shout "stop waffling" on seeing such blather... is it telling that the passage you quote seems to think "empower" is an intransitive verb? I'd like to know who or what one's supposed to be empowering, whether facilitatedly or otherwise. While I now tend to second-guess my initial impulses to shout “stop waffling” on seeing such blather… is it telling that the passage you quote seems to think “empower” is an intransitive verb? I’d like to know who or what one’s supposed to be empowering, whether facilitatedly or otherwise.

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