Fine words butter no parsnips

Just what is it with some politicians? Are they born incompetent or is it that like rolling stones gathering moss, sometimes they acquire along the way?

Brexit has descended into a Whitehall farce, the main political parties engage in ya-boo squabbling amongst themselves rather than concentrating their efforts on doing what is best for the nation, and many local authorities across the country head like lemmings towards the cliff edge of financial Armageddon.

Our very own often autocratic administration comprising a blend of those appearing not to be up to the job, driven by inflated egos and self interest, with others blinded by party political dogma and a determination to remain in denial of problems of their own making occurring around them, while showing scant regard for where the money will be coming from to meet the growing cost of their collective inadequacies.

John Watts in his letter to The

Wokingham Paper, August 2, eloquently summed up the chaotic disaster the borough has been reduced to as a result of bureaucratic dereliction in its very last sentence - “you couldn’t make it up, what a shambles Wokingham has become.”

I doubt very many people, apart from the inmates of Shute End Towers, would disagree with that.

Council Leader, Cllr Charlotte Haitham Taylor recently “pledged” more public consultation, a commodity of which there has been little past evidence, and which now with the arbitrary axing of School Crossing Patrols, rings pretty hollow – Fine words butter no parsnips.