Scrutiny. Really

I just had the first experience of a local authority scrutiny committee.  These committees are the elected few's opportunity to ask searching questions of the officials.  Faced with both the majority party and the opposition I was expecting so cut and thrust.

Sadly, I now know why so much goes wrong in gov and local gov.  Hardly any questions at all (and there were some really obvious ones to ask) were asked and the ones that were asked were poorly thought through and cheap attempts and point scoring.