Well said Gill.
Sorry, I've got a bit of an essay coming on as well.
It is very easy to criticise people at all levels in government for taking decisions we can't immediately agree with - I worked in government for all my career and I and my colleagues at times had to make some really difficult decisions which affected people's lives and which seemed wrong to individuals who held one point of view very strongly or who didn't fully understand all the issues we were having to juggle. Some of the decisions may well have
been wrong, of course, but my experience is that very few were taken lightly or without an honest attempt to take into account all the relevant issues.
I'm not saying we should blindly accept everything national or local government proposes to do, of course. If we think policies are wrong we should say so. My point is just that the issues are rarely as simple as they seem at first sight.
OK, lecture over. Imagine me ducking.
