Footing the bill for abuses of authority

Do our councillors and MPs live in another dimension?

After some of the comments they have come out with and the decisions they have made you have to wonder.

Let’s start with the Tiser’s front-page headline on November 18, ‘Adoption legal battle cost taxpayers £439K’.

The council pushed a case they knew from day one they would not win.

The arrogance of these people is unbelievable, now we have to foot the bill.

In the same edition Councillor Coppinger was having a Boris moment.

According to Councillor Coppinger: “This year we have had totally different seasons, I’ve never seen anything like it – nothing has happened when it should. We have had half of the year with nothing for Tivoli to do, then twice as much to do for the other half.”

Councillor Coppinger, for your information, every year at the end of March spring begins and buds appear and the grass starts to grow.

At the end of October the leaves start to fall off the trees.

It happens every year and has done so for time immemorial.

The fact that Tivoli can’t handle the job is not the fault of the seasons.

According to Tivoli they have worked for the borough for two decades, but that’s not really true is it?

Until 2018 Tivoli did not exist. Before that ISS landscaping used to work for the borough until they were bought out.

If you check on Tivoli’s website everything in our borough is rosy.

Seems to me that Tivoli are just the horticultural version of Serco.

In last week’s edition we discover that the Conservatives want to change the council constitution just so they can avoid the embarrassing situation they found themselves in a few weeks earlier when they were caught out substituting councillors, and we are supposed to vote for these people.

In central government it’s no better.

One scandal after another.

Boris seems to have lost the plot.

Priti Patel talks a lot but that’s all she does.

This pattern is repeating the world over and people are starting to push back against it.

We are all fed up with cronyism, corruption and total incompetence.

KEITH CHAPMAN Cornwall Close

Maidenhead