I have been a Councillor now for a year and a month and a bit. I have been through long periods in my life of thinking I know it all. I hope this honesty grabs you.
In between these long periods I have had periods of what I shall call ‘understanding’.
In the last two or three months I have been experiencing one of those periods of understanding. And, surprisingly (to me) these revelations have come entirely from sources outside of the Council.
I’ve come to question (amongst other things) whether religion is always a bad thing, whether some aspects of my politics could do with softening (but not Cameronising), whether consultation has value (I believe it doesn’t generally, the way it is carried out by civil servants), whether corruption is so engrained that politics has any hope, whether it is a good idea to take time over things (I now think it is more than I did) etc.
I hope to explain this a little more coherently later on. In the meantime, I would welcome comments on any issue above and I’ll hopefully learn as much from those as I have from a couple of friends recently.
And thank you to those friends who will know who they are.
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