What happened? Did some council official not get their bung tied up in a nice brown envelope? Yet again, senior officials pull the strings and our elected councillors are their puppets to swing to the official’s pull.
We are told today via the local chip paper that the Moonwalk charity, where all the money is kept locally, has lost possibly up to £1 million because of “senior officials in the parks department who postponed approving the event” for some strange and unaccountable location reason which we are not old enough to find out the details about.
Riding on his high horse, the man who took eight counts to get his Armani trousers in to the council chambers, Councillor Stevie Cardownie, Executive Member for Krispy Kreme, Parties and Wonga.com advertising tells us he has to tell these senior planning officials “I’m always pressing our officials to recognise that events take planning” - well Councillor Cardownie, what the fcuk are we paying these senior planning officials inflated salaries for if they cant even work that little snippet out themsevles without your esteemed advice?
Is it not really the case that the BurnDownie coalition is totally fcuked and the officials are running rings round the incapable councillors who’d rather been cycling round Amsterdam on our time with all expenses paid when they should be driving round the city and pointing out the potholes to be filled by the senior officials.
With the head of the charity telling us that “there are certain individuals who are in authoritative positions who clearly do not understand events” and “she had never before in the event’s eight-year history experienced the type of “deadlock” and almost threatening to pull out in the future stating “We lost months of time. It was very discouraging and very disappointing.”
It is about time our elected councillors took the council back for the citizens of the city and not keep it as a job creation scheme for senior officials who wouldn’t manage to get a job outside in the real world. If they don’t want to do it then they should resign, get another job and see if they can pay their bedroom tax.
It seems to be a habitual practice that councillors are spending their lives coming out and apologising for overpaid senior council officials.
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