No telly, Councilors and Councils

19 February

Last night we turned the telly off. Yes, I know, incredible eh ... doing so allowed me to get some proofing on Shipshape and I got to around half way with it. Jan spent her time her lappy. Turning off the telly isn't really all that rare for us. There's many time we feel like having a quiet evening reading or doing something else that needs catching up on. Thing is though, we like telly and we do record quite a few programmes we like, especially when the schedules clash.

One of our local councillors is in bover yet again. He's the Green Party man and its seems that he caused a row last year while the snow was lying here in Dorktown. Apparently the councillor used his facebook account to insult a council officer over the failure to remove snow from the town centre knowing full well that it is a county council task not a borough council task. The councillor has been ordered to apologise to the officer and to undergo extra training over the issue. I'm not sure how I feel about that. I didn't know that councillors actually had any training, let alone extra training. But more to the point, if the man making the comments was ready to say sorry, surely he would have done it by now. The idea of being ordered to apologise doesn't really cut it in my mind. How meaningful would the apology be when given under duress? Not much I would have thought.

Warwickshire County Council is Tory lead; Dorktown council is Labour lead. The leader of the county council has declared that they have to find savings of £92 million and that has suggested that one of meeting the figure is for all the town and district councils being scrapped and the county council is made into a unitary council taking charge of everything within Warwickshire. Oh dear readers, you should hear the squeals of protest from the north of the county. And I can understand why. The south of the county is very green and rural while the north is more urban and industrial. The big fear is the a Tory lead unitary council would favour the southern part of the county over the northern part. We will all sit and wait to see how things work out.

And now I we go find a photo for today ... 

 

Coombe Abbey, more or less in central Warwickshire but run by Coventry Council.

And funny time ... and it's a graphic ...