I'm all for good old fashioned Civic Pride, but I've just had the latest Hillingdon People through the door with a local supplement, full of utopian pictures of good citizens excitedly expressing their unfettered joy and pride at living locally. Has their been a Maoist revolution? Pass the bucket someone. (PS Are local elections coming up I wonder......??)

I'm all for good old fashioned Civic Pride, but I've just had the latest Hillingdon People through the door with a local supplement, full of utopian pictures of good citizens excitedly expressing their unfettered joy and pride at living locally. Has their been a Maoist revolution? Pass the bucket someone.

(PS Are local elections coming up I wonder......??)

All in all, Hillingdon is a great place to live when you consider the alternatives, OK we knock the Council everybody does that, whatever Borough they live, Hillingdon I do believe have got it right on most things, you only need to see Camden, or Islingdon to see that, the Borough is the first place immigrants enter via the airport, ilegal or otherwise, look at Hillingdon as the yardstick as to what the whole Country is about, many stay, some move on, yet despite the fluid situation it stays pretty stable, Riots are what happens in other places, streets are swept, all the roads have lighting, the one thing everybody notices, and the same with most Boroughs, not many regular plod, but thats more national than local, unless some third party comes up for election, in Hayes would sooner go with what we have than go back to the bad old days.