Stupidity

[mrs_overall]

Do you ever read an article that leaves you shaking your head in amazement?
Whitby and Filey (both small towns) come under the umbrella of Scarborough Borough Council. Whenever they announce cost cutting measures, it seems to me that they only ever apply to Whitby & Filey and in the same newspaper there is usually an article announcing how many £millions Scarborough are spending on themselves for a new outdoor water park or something similar.
One recent proposal was that the world famous Whitby Goth weekend should be moved lock stock & barrel to Scarborough as it is "too big an event for Whitby."
They have also recently introduced residents parking permits for Whitby while the residents of Scarborough don't have to put up with such nonsense.
Anyway, I can feel myself heading towards a full blown rant so I will return to my original point.
Whitby and Filey are tourist towns. They no longer have a fishing industry to speak of.....just tourism.
This week Scarborough Borough Council have announced that to save money, they are closing down the tourist information offices...but only in Whitby & Filey.....not Scarborough.
Madness or what?
I shall now go lie down in a darkened room with a stiff drink.

[sunny-dave]

morning mrs overtrousers

There has to be a joke about stiffs and Whitby ... but I'm too hungover to work it out - perhaps it will bite me in the neck later ...

[sunny-dave]

Scarborough is a dump - it has got the numpties it deserves running it (ruining it?) - it's just a shame that they are *** up the more pleasant places too.

[corylus]

I read that they're planning to move Whitby Abbey to Scarborough as well to keep the Goths happy.

[Svejk]

Hello MrsO, x. You sound a bit jealous of Scarborough. It is a great place, isn't it.

[Svejk]

Hello MrsO, x. You sound a bit jealous of Scarborough. It is a great place, isn't it.

[Old_Geezer]

I'd say it never ceases to amaze me what authorities think it right to do with the taxpayers money, but I'd be lying. I think I've become immune to a lot of it over the years. If it's daft and especially if it is not what the residents want, they'll insist on it.

[paddywak]

I don't think you need worry to much about the Goth week end Mrs O,Whitby is the Goth festival it just wouldn't be the same any where else.The attitude of the
Scarbough council is typical though, the only bit of the area that counts is "their" bit,sadly you can see this attitude repeated all over the country and at all levels of government.

[Islander]

Hi Mrs O, good to see you about. They did the same thing on the Isle of Wight , (main industry tourism ) , madness eh ?

[AB Editor]

That's a shame about Whitby. I imagine it's seen are the more prosperous town?

I make a pilgrimage up to Whitby at the beginning of November each year to eat all your fish and seafood.

Love the idea of moving the goth weekend away from the place where Dracula had his holiday home - it's missing the point a bit!

[gness]

Morning MrsO....nice to see you posting and feisty..

Many, many years ago it was decided to change the beautiful doors on the main entrance to our library....a lovely old building.

Many of us didn't want this to happen.....we'd lost too many of our interesting features to a bonkers council already.....so there were protests.
Someone chained herself to the doors as part of the protest.

I still have the chains......does the Tourist Office have a suitable door and when are you free?

Gx

[mrs_overall]

Thanks to all for your comments, especially from the AbEd. I was quite overcome at receiving a reply from such a lofty place as AbEd Towers that I had to have yet another stiff drink.

Gness, who was foolish enough to give you the padlock key back???

[Zacs-Master]

Moving the Goth event to Whitby. Genius! Not.

[Zacs-Master]

Scarborough, I meant!!! Doh!

[Canary42]

My sympathies Mrs O.

Hayling Island has the same problem. Havant Borough Council use its Car Parks as a cash cow from Day Trippers but the Information Centre is CLOSED AT WEEKENDS.

[mrs_overall]

One of their excuses for wanting to snaffle Goth weekend is that Whitby does not have enough parking for the influx.
We had a spanking new park and ride open last year only for Scarborough Borough Council to close it for the winter.....the week BEFORE Goth weekend

[gness]

Nobody, MrsO.....I had swallowed the key.......☺

[Canary42]

A bit of Deep Throat called for then ;-)

[gness]

Now if you had been around, Canary we wouldn't have had to wait so long.......☺

[Peter Pedant]

// Do you ever read an article that leaves you shaking your head in amazement? //

blimey I read a few AB answers that leave me shaking my head in amazement and disbelief - and this kind of steels me for craziness in the national press when I read it

[1ozzy]

Time to break out the Marigolds Mrs O and give 'em a dose.