My Local Council - Brain Dead Simpletons?

[flip_flop]

My local band of incompetent lickspittles they laughingly call a council have come up with a solution to stop commuters from parking in residential streets within a half mile radius of the train station by enforcing a no parking rule for all cars between 9am and 6pm, and by 'all' they are including cars belonging to residents!!!!!

They have come up with this mind numbingly stupid idea at great expense to the Council Tax payers - I am astounded that a committee of supposedly intelligent people could arrive at such an asinine conclusion.

Here's a solution I'll give you free of charge - residents parking permits.

Job done.

Does anybody have other examples of council stupidity?

[Reverandfunk]

Flip I wouldn't count on councillors being intelligent lol.

Most people vote purely on party i.e. I'm a tory their candidate gets my vote no matter what.

Exactly what qualifications do councillors need to have? Its okay blaming the govt when services get cut but ultimately isn't it local councils that actually spend taxpayers money. I think its quite frightening.

[jake-the-peg]

There's also a "pay peanuts get monkeys issue"

If you're a bright dynamic sort of person looking to make a mark in the world how likely are you to be attracted by the sort of packages available in local Government?

Mind you maybe they just want to discourage everyone parking on the roads and are using the commuters as an excuse - they pi$$ you off - so far so good - then 6 weeks later offer residents the opportunity of buying residents parking permits.

Pretty standard scheme - want to introduce an unpopular policy? introduce a diabolical one and then downgrade it!

[flip_flop]

That didn't even occur to me - perhaps they are brighter than I gave them credit for!

Brighter but with a large streak of insidiousness.

[jake-the-peg]

Maybe it says more about me than them

[johnlambert]

Who voted for these Brain Dead Simpletons?

[wizard69]

My local council are in the process of chopping down five beatiful trees so that they can spend �35,000 erecting....
an ornamental, steel one. The mind boggles with these berks.

[flip_flop]

John - rather shamefacedly, I have to admit that I did.

[jake-the-peg]

That's OK - just don't do it again :c)