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| "One day I'll be leader of 't council, and then tha'll be sorry!" |
This week, as if to prove that there’s no such thing as a
straight-talking politician, Cllr John Taylor, began his latest long letter to his dwindling core of bored Tameside readers with:
“I can’t tell you how much I’m enjoying the move to Dukinfield Town
Hall.”
And then proceeded at great length to tell them!
When will the writer learn that reading about a boring
subject written by a boring person, and written in a boring way, is even more
boring?
Not only are these personal meanderings mind-numbingly dull, but invariably,
in these days of political correctness, it is not surprising to find that some odd
contradictions have crept into many of the councillor’s statements too.
We are all used to those authors who often use oxymoron’s to call
attention to apparent contradictions, but Councillor Taylor seems to have honed
this current trend into a particular of art form.
Take for instance his insistence that Tameside council
elections are totally democratic.
There’s a glaring fundamental contradiction at the very
heart of his statement.
How can he declare his support for democracy, whilst at the
same time advocate in favour of a local governance system of electing
councillors, a third at a time; which effectively means that even if every
voter in Tameside voted against them, it would still guarantee that Labour
controlled the council?
And furthermore, it’s a strange type of ‘democratic’ system
that effectively puts all the power in the hands of a single individual at the expense
of all the other ward councillors?
Folks, we are being governed locally by a toxic combination
of public sector stupidity with small town mentality mixed with a band of
authoritarian jobsworth’s, where initiative and free thought is not only
frowned upon, but actively discouraged!
Heaven help us!
who is this aged person?
ReplyDeleteIs there a retirement age for councillors, or are they like these mad liberal judges who seem to go on for...ever.
ReplyDeleteHes got to 70 at least although he looks older.
ReplyDeletewhat should be actually illegal is covered by the elite covering their own arses with a system that is corrupt to its very core. All the councillors should have a very bitter taste in their mouths at what they are doing, jobs for the boys, extravagance at the tax payers expense, its a proper little gold mine if you can milk the system for what you can, after all John Taylor has a villa abroad, yet still supports a council making decisions that affect the poor, the elderley and the disabled in a poor manner
ReplyDeleteHow much council tax goes into paying ultra generous local government pensions?
ReplyDeleteA LOT.