I live in a quiet street that's blighted by the occasional tosser racing through using it as a short cut to beat traffic lights. The campaign for speed humps has been going for 30 years and has achieved nothing. Now there's a vacancy on our parish Council and I'm tempted to stand.
Reasons to stand:
At a meeting I attended last year I learned an awful lot of tasty gossip about my neighbourhood.
If you want to change something you need to take action instead of moaning.
Reasons not to stand:
I would be selfishly interested only in my own street and nothing else.
Worse than this; my neighbours and friends would know I was a parish councillor and therefore small minded and nosey.
What does the panel think?
