Mail v local government.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Thu Dec 08, 2011 6:41 pm

It's bad near me too.

Old Rees-Mogg must have had a right top trumps going on in his head. Litter= falling standards, bad. People trying to sort it out=good. Unless they work for the council.

I've never understood the right's hatred of local government.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Thu Dec 08, 2011 9:28 pm

Simple. Their friends aren't making profit from them.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Thu Dec 08, 2011 9:34 pm

They surely are. Loads of stuff is outsourced.

Quite how that fits with the "Brown bought votes from the public sector" theory of Tim Montgomerie, I don't know. "Vote for us, we're transferring your job to Cuntco" isn't an obvious winner.

Gourami · **Joined:** Wed Jul 20, 2011 10:51 pm **Posts:** 2005

He was on 'This Week'. Just awful.

SoulBoy · **Joined:** Fri Oct 08, 2010 1:42 pm **Posts:** 1622

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Jacob Rees-Mogg suggested the distinctive headwear should be imposed on all council officials with the power to hand out fines for minor offences such as dropping litter or playing music too loudly.

Well that didn't take long...

Mother stabbed to death 'for asking neighbours to turn down music'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1gJj5NpQi

Perhaps if some council busybody/Envirnomental Health Officer had intervened to deal with this "minor offence"...

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Mon Dec 12, 2011 3:46 pm

If Jacob lived in a council flat, he might not think playing music as loud as you like was the right of every freeborn Englishman. And he might understand that a lot of the megablaster types aren't exactly loveable eccentrics.

Nobhead.

ezinra · **Posted:** Sun Dec 18, 2011 4:42 pm

The shortest set of double yellows in Britain (which are the length of four toy cars)

Councillor listens to residents scandal! And the jobsworth turns out to have a sense of humour:

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'Local people said it was not obvious where the dividing line was so a decision was made to put in a small section of double yellow lines. I wish they weren't there

'As a councillor you are expected to do many things for residents but getting into the Guinness Book of Records for the shortest set of double yellow lines isn't one I anticipated.'

Unlike the Mailites…

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The Idiot at the council who ordered this stupidity should be sacked along with the morons who actually carried it out.

- Howard, Preston, 18/12/2011 13:36 Rating 1

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Sun Dec 18, 2011 4:46 pm

Says it all.

Messianic Trees · **Joined:** Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:50 pm **Posts:** 2827

Council accused of wasting public cash for taking housing tenants to see the MUPPETS

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1l3jZNxLI

I'm guessing you can all predict the type of comments this has inspired, though I did quite like this one:

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Oh well .. It'll give Littlejohn an easy column for Friday.
- Geoff, Birmingham UK, 31/1/2012 14:31

2k. · **Posted:** Wed Feb 01, 2012 2:29 am

This is the cinema that local residents, council, pressure groups etc... have been trying desperately for several years. I think it's a great idea. This town is dying on it's arse and just for once the council have tried to do something positive and yet local and now national media slate the idea

ezinra · **Posted:** Thu Feb 09, 2012 11:03 am

Killjoy council workers saw snowmen's heads off after children take hours to build them... because they 'damage the grass'

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Fellow resident Gabriella Newbold said: 'I saw this happening and was equally shocked. I'm very annoyed. One of the snowmen was made by my kids at 8am.

That's nothing. I once built a sandcastle, and as soon as I'd finished the sea had totally destroyed it. Boo hoo, let's call the Daily Mail and whine about it.

Messianic Trees · **Joined:** Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:50 pm **Posts:** 2827

Going Viral: Lambeth cut services...but not their advertising budget, clearly

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic ... z1luzmpHB8

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[P. Staines] has highlighted this brilliant photo, berating government budget cuts in Lambeth. Somewhat ironically, they seem keen to vocally oppose cuts by utilising what appears to be a never-ending advertising budget. Nothing like priorities...

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Thu Feb 09, 2012 10:03 pm

Lambeth might not need to advertise if they had 4 national newspapers doing it for them for free.

See also "why do they have so many press officers?"

Because you lot write lots of shit.

Matt · **Joined:** Mon Sep 26, 2011 10:47 pm **Posts:** 43

Posters aren't exactly expensive. Would be a few pounds each in quantity, probably less.

DTR · **Posted:** Fri Feb 10, 2012 1:09 am

I thought these type of advertising hoardings where operated by private companies under contracts from local authorities and those contracts specified that the companies had to display concil information on one side. So I'd imagine the costs are very low.

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