21 February

On the way into work yesterday, one of the local politicians was doing election shots in the park. My attention was drawn more to the glorious, colourful corruption and incompetence of Council, on display in the flower beds. I was reading feedback from visitors to Bathurst for the 12-hour race. So many blown away by the beauty of the place, how ‘neat and tidy’ the town is etc. The fact the town is run well is right there in front of everybody’s faces. The social media/FB crowd aren’t having it. There’s votes in kicking the Council. One said this week that peoples’ faith in Council has never been lower. Perhaps because that’s the business model of getting elected through social media. ‘Give the Council a kicking’.