Local Council Dictators

We Name and Shame the Guilty Parties

So when did council officers stop being public servants?

Yes, there was a time when officers of the council were paid a moderate salary to look after our interests; to provide us with basic amenities that made our lives less arduous, and to give us towns and cities we could be proud of. Now these same bureaucrats are paid exorbitant salaries to dream up half-witted schemes that will irritate us to death and cost us a lot of money. Money that comes from the bottomless purse called council tax. The perpetrators are little Hitlers who want to control our lives.

Lower down the scale, lesser council employees may not be paid such exorbitant salaries but they mostly get quite reasonable remuneration and they benefit from the inflation-proof pensions that we pay for; pensions that in many cases we cannot look forward to ourselves as ours have been whittled away to the extent that they are now almost worthless.

More galling is the fact that some council employees are complete numbskulls. They operate policies dreamed up by dickheads and they don't even have the brain power to question their feasibility. Indeed, many older and long-suffering residents will recall that the rocking horses they had in childhood were far more intelligent than some current-day council employees!

At one time, elected councillors did the job because they wanted to help their communities. There was no real financial incentive although some scandalously corrupt councillors did manage to do very well in a financial sense. Nowadays, councillors are paid salaries for their part time work that many of us would gratefully accept as just reward for a full-time job. This is, of course, in addition to whatever salaries they receive from their day jobs!

Our victims will often be local councils. The tricks they get up to would probably fill a book but we will concentrate on one or two specific matters that are likely to affect many people who live in boroughs controlled by corrupt local authorities. We would, of course, have preferred to promote boroughs that are not corrupt but we haven't managed to find one.

To see a sample of the unjust experiences faced by people all over the country, take a look also at http://www.rottenborough.org.uk. It makes fascinating reading!

Another good website is http://www.croydoncouncil.info which attempts to expose massive scandals in the London Borough of Croydon.

If you cannot understand how council officers and councillors do so little to truly represent the people they are supposed to represent, take a look at http://www.bullytown.co.uk - a fascinating website that proves representation is not the object of the exercise.

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