WITH reference to the letter 'Stop messing about and sort town out' in your June 24 issue.
Yet again we see another letter complaining about ‘the council’, be it Wisbech, Fenland, Cambridgeshire or wherever.
Why do people consistently moan about what our councillors ‘do’ or ‘not do’?
Wisbech as a town has, for the last 50 years, slo
wly disappeared into the mire of apathy on the part of voters, and self-promotion on the part of councillors, who continually play ‘pass the silly hat and golden bangle’ every year to ensure their own status within the inner circle.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing. I am sure there are many in Fenland who ask similar questions.
Why was the old canal filled in?
Why was a perfectly good, historic town centre destroyed and allowed to fill up with cheap discount stores and empty buildings (even before the demise of Woolworths)?
Why did Fenland council even consider allowing the college to move to March?
And let’s not forget a traffic system that makes the M25 look like a freeway.
Try sitting at any traffic lights at 5pm and watch the lunacy.
Over the years, a small town called King’s Lynn, with a reasonably forward-looking council and less voter apathy, has been transformed, whilst Wisbech remains a backwater with a council that cannot even decide whether to allow parking in the town centre or not!
Now is not the time, if there ever was a time, to moan about the council. We all had the chance to change things at the recent local elections but, judging by the numbers, apathy won the day.
Would it be too much to suggest to all those who sit and moan about ‘the council’ for whatever reason: the next time there are local (and, dare I say, national) elections, the voters of Fenland take a little exercise and go and vote.
Tony Feaviour
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