We are all Cumbrians now

I feel rathered honoured today, having read the Rory Stewart interview in the Sunday Telegraph, P15.

As one of the four folks the other Friday (actually there were five community broadbanders in total – two Cumbrian residents, two Lancastrians and a Yorkshireman) mentioned munching Cyberdoyle’s delicious Lemon Drizzle cake and also one of the two who joined Rory and his team for curry and plotting at the highly-commendable Mango Tree restaurant in Kirkby Stephen.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/7920361/Rory-Stewart-Westminsters-crazy-but-Id-rather-be-eating-cake-in-Cumbria.html

Rory is right to believe that changes comes, that real action happens, outside of Portcullis House lobbying and the Westminster Village environment.

Changes comes about in the real Villages, all 200 one by one, each local community at a time, realising that what really matters is not the act of Building per se rather the 4th Utility result – the deal, the bargain for the next Century, if the opportunity is both recognised and seized that is.

Building the Big Society, aka Effective Localism, goes way beyond physical locality, is a way of being, acting, delivering, and above all achieving by placing genuine trust and power into the hands of those traditionally on the receiving end of top-down diktat.

Community of Interest in other words.

There are many around the UK, NextGenUs and FibreStream included, and beyond who are determined to ensure that Rory’s Conference is a roaring success for the local community in Cumbria and their 4th Utility Futures.

Each local community simply requires equal access to the knowledge of the full range of various alternative routes to 4th Utility service delivery in order to make informed choices for themselves – if Rory’s Conference can achieve that outcome then success is assured for all concerned.

Together We Are The Network you might say.

Also posted on www.fibrestream.co.uk