I wonder

I wonder what would happen if people turned Agenda 21's (UN) slogan, "Think global, act local," on its head just for a moment.  Could we forget the local council's directives about recycling into whichever of four boxes, about parking wherever between when and whenever and the fine to pay, about the levy taken by the Police 'Service' that seems more like a Social Service these days? Would we stop worrying about the small bureaucracies of life that plague us or would we begin to challenge them?

I'd like to think that if we sat down and itemised each area where we felt short-changed by local government we'd feel sufficiently aggrieved to actually do something about it.  Who knows?  Perhaps, in time, this line of thought could bring down a government via an unstoppable chain of events.

I came here from London, a world away not only in the people I meet but also in the air I breathe now.  Here in Torquay it's laid-back to the point of complacency; in London it was ferocious and in-your-face, day in, day out, 24/7.

Torquay, Devon, England.  It has a nice ring about it so let's keep it that way. Don't give way to jobsworths who want to make you just another Region of an Area within a Union. Reclaim your nationality and be proud, independent, Devonshire, English.

An amateur singer/songwriter extols the virtues of his home County. Unfortunately for Devon, he seems to be an expat:


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