There’s something missing…
KERPLUNK! This year’s increased Council Tax bill landed on the doormat together with the spring edition of the borough council’s 31-page full colour propaganda magazine, produced and distributed at a guesstimated cost, in round figures of £10,000 (four editions annually £40,000).
Marvellous 18, although perhaps it should have been entitled Excuses, Excuses, Promises, Promises or A Guide To Self-Praise.
Patting themselves on the back and packed with creative artists’ impressions. maps of roads being thought about and more portraits of executive councillors, some well out of date, than you could shake a stick at, promising a land of milk and honey at some unspecified future date.
No mention, however, of damage done to local independent local traders and the local economy as a whole.
No mention of the cost of outsourcing.
No mention of lack of town centre parking or increased charges.
No mention of pothole ravaged roads.
No mention of the vandalising of Elms Field, or the decimation of the town’s remaining countryside.
No mention of cuts to some school budgets.
No explanation of increased levels of borrowing.
No mention of the escalating cost of regeneration due to work being months behind schedule.
No mention of promises broken – just more self-aggrandising and whinging and whining about how unfairly they are treated by their own central government.
They may be able to fool themselves, they don’t fool others.