I was out-and-about the other day and came across this advert: My local authority want me to have my say in how they spend and collect their money. When I got home, I visited the www.barnet.gov.uk/budget site accordingly. It was quite good. It went some way towards explaining how the council is funded and what it spends [...]
Posts Tagged ‘easyCouncil’
Voters as consumers
Nick Clegg has gone on the attack. His target is the London Borough of Barnet’s easyCouncil model of service provision. There are a number of ways of portraying Barnet’s idea, but I’ve not seen many that appear to be very kind. As a Barnet resident who has to use Ryanair in his line of work, [...]
A blog about representative democracy, social media and a conversational politics. How will peer-to-peer communications change local democracy? How is representation changing? 
