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Same thinking - What colour is a bus again?

By The Basa ⋅ March 19, 2006 ⋅

Liam Rudden in Saturday’s Evening News seems to agree with our post on Friday about “Taxigate II - The Cooncil” Who is in who’s pocket when he writes in his column that:

The revelation this week that senior city councillors have wracked up a taxi bill of £3500 in just one year is appalling. What’s wrong with hopping on a bus? The problem is that many of Edinburgh’s councillors appear to have lost sight of their place in the greater scheme of things and, having developed an inflated sense of their own importance, expect to be taxied from door to door.

He rightly points to the same problem we had with the senior council official, namely Jim Inch:

This was highlighted later in the week when council chiefs refused to investigate concerns that some of the journeys contravened the local authority’s own regulations which state that taxis should only be used when councillors cannot “reasonably” make the trip by public transport.

He also has the solution:

In many ways we only have ourselves to blame for this. As an electorate we constantly vote the same people into public office even though we’ve complained about their behaviour in the past. As the last few years have shown, many of our councillors appear to have a blatant disregard for public money, so perhaps, with the next local elections fast approaching, the time has come to start voting with our feet and showing the door to those who have forgotten that being a councillor is about what you can do for your ward, and not what your ward can do for you.

He is 100% right. The sitting fourth reich under Donald Anderson have shown blatant disregard not only for public money but also for their electorate. These were the ultra-lefties - all brought through the unions when Thatcher was in power and then it turns out that they are indeed, if not the same, much worse. They have taken a democracy and shredded it under our noses and as Liam Rudden says, we are to blame. We are the fools who keep voting for them, albeit in ever decreasing numbers, and that just plays into their hand.

Even the councillor for Pilton manages to miss the bus a lot and he doesn’t even have any council responsibilities. If they are always so late for meetings, why don’t they leave, giving themselves enough time to get to the meeting. It is basic planning. How can you plan a city if you can’t even plan how to get to a meeting. Prior Planning Prevents Piss Pot Performance - the 6 P’s. The best statement to come out of the mouth of an Oxford Don.

Even the ever higher paid officials who are supposed to be a-political seem to be sticking it to us as well. Rosendale, Jobson, Inch and Aitchison to name just a few.