Followed the link from this Post report to the Bristol Manisfesto site and contributed my 'three wishes' (below) to the 'Three Wishes Campaign'. The site says 'The Campaign’s aim is to collect Three Wishes for Prosperity to make Bristol a better place to live. The wishes collected will then create a manifesto document which will be freely shared with each candidate [for elected Mayor of Bristol] and the city as a whole. The manifesto document will then be a benchmark to empower the Mayor to make Bristol an even better place to live, not just for the first term but for years to come.' I hope something of practical use comes of this campaign but its not a good start to talk in terms of wishes.
* The Mayor should aim to build stronger, more self-reliant
local communities, meeting needs both now and on into the future and enacting
both local and global fairness and equality and aiming for the goals health,
wellbeing and quality of life.
* The Mayor should strive for ever better energy efficiency
and seek to exchange the use of finite resources for renewable ones at the
highest possible practical level.
* The Mayor should take
an ecological, evidence-based, reasoned, systems-thinking approach, based on
respecting our environment because it's a part of us and we are a part of it.
See here for the views of 50 people on what the Bristol Mayor's main focus should be. I like Mike Birkins comments, not surprisingly.
