(02-11-2022, 04:28 AM)townsendcalling date Wrote:Watch your next council election, they are all over them like the plague!!Already had it in our area, hid their agendas in the lead-up by presenting as moderates, then afterwards out came all the radical agendas, Extinction Rebellion, Animal Rights, Woke Vegan Cancel Culture, etc., etc.. I'll be labelled sexist for writing this, but it was mostly female candidates hiding their agendas, they presented as moderate school teachers or small business owners, and then it all changed!
In some areas where I live they have set-back public services and maintenance programs by 10 years, on top of the pandemic effects. For example, they rallied to protect one tree, at what is projected to be the equivalent cost of more than 3km of local road or footpath maintenance.
In another example, they introduced Stasi like waste sorting monitoring and recycling, using a plethora of bins, so many bins in fact a local engineer calculated that the bins have to last more than 7 years before all the recycling is a break even for not having supermarket bags! And that is without the cost of the wages for the people they send around inspecting bins for illegal content, just stupid policy! Then after all that we found out the waste contractor picks up all the bins and dumps the lot at the same remote hole in the ground because the recycling centres are overloaded with the stuff! The equivalent of paying an A-Grade gardener a travel allowance to come to your garden collect and throw dog turds over the fence on your behalf!
Finally, the Coup d'état. Once they have their little agendas settled, they feck off leaving a pile of undealt with shizen in their wake!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"