James Newport writes here about the consultation workshop in Rayleigh, and he isn’t very impressed.
First of all, the presentation was made less effective by hard-to-read text on the PowerPoint displays and hard-to-hear speech fighting against the sound of the air conditioning.
Secondly, the concept of ‘a walk around the parish’ might work if the parish consists of a church, a school , a shop and a few residential roads. It doesn’t work ok for a town of 33000 people. It’s almost as if we are back in the bad old days of a few years ago when some councillors though that “Real Rayleigh” stopped at the railway bridges.
Many times I’ve found it necessary to remind the town council members that we are Rayleigh TOWN council, not Rayleigh TOWN CENTRE council!!
From someone who represents a part of the badlands the other side of the railway bridge.
But you’re not a Conservative so I suppose they don’t think you count