Posts tagged with ‘Councils’

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Zebu review of the year – part 1

January 2, 2010

A ROUND-UP OF THE MOST GLARING, RIDICULOUS AND EGREGIOUS LIES, DECEPTION AND BULLSHIT OF 2009
Zebu OrganisationsCouncil are high on many people’s hate lists. They’re happy to take our money but rather less happy to provide us with the corresponding services. Thanet Council deserve special mention for their “recycling” services after a Margate resident videoed dustmen [...]

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Council CCTV cameras triple in decade

December 18, 2009

We wrote the other day about how the oft-quoted figure of 4.2m CCTV cameras in Britain is utter Zebu and explained the less than scientific way the number arose. We’re glad to say that somebody is trying to find out how many cameras there spying on us.
Big Brother Watch put in Freedom of Information requests [...]

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Who scrutinises the scrutineers?

November 12, 2009

It’s only right and proper that councils do all they can to ensure that public money isn’t wasted. Wealden District Council in East Sussex, for instance, has three scrutiny committees. A council spokesman says the council is “looking at making savings of £2.7 million over the next three years.”
To that end, they’ve now set up [...]

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Parking porkies

November 5, 2009

There’s a glorious piece in today’s Sheffield Star about some of the reasons motorists have given to try to get out of parking tickets in the city, according to Sheffield Council. The most gobsmacking is surely the excuse: “My son was dying in my arms.” How could the council be so heartless as to turn [...]

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It isn’t only MPs who are grabbing our money

October 28, 2009

The trousering of our money by most MPs pales beside the payoff to Glasgow City Council’s former head of education, Margaret Doran, whose redundancy package – despite only being in the job since 2007 – comes to a whopping £278,000.
According to the Evening Times, she was made redundant because her department was broken up. She’s [...]

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Recycling is rubbish

October 9, 2009

“we urgently need residents to use the waste and recycling services correctly in order for them to be most effective”

EVER WONDER what happens to your carefully-sorted recycling? A Margate resident filmed Thanet council bin men going about their job, cheerfully grabbing the bags he and his neighbours had organised… and throwing them all together into [...]