Are you with me so far? No, no, no I hear you say! The f***en Council gets in the way. They are f***en useless! It’s the place you go to find corruption in action. It is the very model of bureaucratic interference, intervention and intrusiveness.
In fact Councils are so much on the nose that less than half of the residents eligible to vote actually do so. Why? Because people have given up or just do not want to give any encouragement to most of the people standing for Council. After that the unelected and unrepresentative bureaucrats seem to have more to say about their lives anyway. Well that is the sad story.
However it doesn’t have to be like that. The myth that has been about for sometime might well be about to be overturned. The story goes that behind the scenes the bureaucrats believe that they are in charge despite what the ratepayers think. Apparently they liken councils to the Tasmanian Tiger.
Myth has it that despite the thylacine’s big mouth it was unable to bite you if you caught it by the tail and shook it. Encouraged by this story bureaucrats liken themselves to the thylacine’s tail as they give the council members a good shake. It encourages them when our elected representatives do not even attempt to bite them. No wonder this silly myth has currency.
But the indications are that voters are restless and that they are beginning to demand real representation.
The story that a thylacine cannot bite is a myth. It just isn’t true. There is absolutely no evidence to support it if the elected representatives are actually up for biting them. Some are and the best spot to do that is on the bottom.
Alternatives to the same old, same old, class of candidates are coming out of the woodwork. What is more to the point, some of the entrenched so-called representatives are having cold shiver attacks. Not to put too fine a point on it, it is time that many were frozen out. It is also time to put the heat on anyone standing and demanding that they come out and say they are prepared to take on the bureaucrats as well as whatever else they standing for. Whatever we do we must vote and have some fun doing it.
