Liberty Alone

I have a confession. I don’t find bye elections that interesting.
I will admit to enjoying the suspense of election night and the more substantial arguments during major campaigns can be interesting but bye elections leave me cold.

I just cannot get excited about impending bye elections. They’re not about policy, they’re not about trying to promote and debate ideas. They’re so short term.

I think I must be failing as a Liberal Democrat…

I’ve just noticed that mysociety has launched another tool, Neighbourhood Fixit.
This allows you to put in a postcode and report any problems such as graffiti or non-working street lamps or other problems to the local council.
You can then update the record of problems as updates occur.

This looks like a great tool for community activists to promote people engaging in their local community, opening a new channel for communicating with the local council in a visible manner (if there is no fix, people will be able to see the record of failure of the council with that particular problem).

I’m sure some LibDem activists can come up with ways to use the site to help the community, and I’d suggest councillors keep an eye on their local area’s problems.