SarahBell Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 The solar subsidy has been lowered recently and Oldham have just done thishttp://www.oldham-chronicle.co.uk/news-features/8/news-headlines/96130/tommyfield-plugs-into-solar-power Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Hovis Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 If they're in and registrered they'll just make the deadline on those. Pushing ahead with the rest of the programme may just make financial sense but they have basically missed the boat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyberNat Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 Dumfries and Galloway council are pretty crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccc Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 Edinburgh City Council takes some ******ing beating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19 year mortgage 8itch Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 Edinburgh City Council takes some ******ing beating. Get a bigger stick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Generation Game Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 Edinburgh City Council takes some ******ing beating. I reckon Hull City Council has it beat. One of Hull's most historical features, Beverley gate (which refused entry to Charles I in 1642 and pretty much set off the civil war) is to be renovated before next year's city of culture celebration. The council's plan? Fill it in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erat_forte Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 I never knew Hull had any historic features. Interesting here to see Scottish councils all at the same time talking about big council tax increases. I wonder if they realise this is their last chance before they all get voted out next year? Of course no new service improvements are offered in return for the tax increases... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 I wonder if the Oldham councillor, used his relatives firm to fit those panels, after a trip to the Lodge? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_renting Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 The solar subsidy has been lowered recently and Oldham have just done this http://www.oldham-chronicle.co.uk/news-features/8/news-headlines/96130/tommyfield-plugs-into-solar-power Don't worry. From the photograph, Councillor Abdul Jabbar is personally installing them with his little electric drill, saving taxpayers thousands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyguy Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 I hope you've put an advance order for forum space for this ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oracle Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 can we do a "hall of shame" please???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattW Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 The 'Rotten Boroughs' section of Private Eye magazine is an entertaining read, that's for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig_ Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 Edinburgh City Council takes some ******ing beating. Agreed. Though looks like Moray are on a mission to p*ss people off with an 18% council tax increase to fund their mismanagement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahBell Posted January 14, 2016 Author Share Posted January 14, 2016 Don't worry. From the photograph, Councillor Abdul Jabbar is personally installing them with his little electric drill, saving taxpayers thousands. It's the crouch pose the photographers seem to love. My local councillor appeared on a leaflet crouching next to where daffodils will bloom the next year but it just looks like he's taking a dump on a grass verge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccc Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 Agreed. Though looks like Moray are on a mission to p*ss people off with an 18% council tax increase to fund their mismanagement. In one year ^ ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steppenpig Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 and Oldham have just done this Not a defence in any way, but it occurred to me recently, when thinking about crazy efforts of politicans to get their pet projects implemented in the face of common sense and opposition, that it must be very frustrating when you have dedicated the last five years of your life to some project or other, and if it falls through you will have to start again from scratch. There must be a strong personal motivation just to get it done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig_ Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 In one year ^ ? Yup. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-35300106 If they were to do that here in Edinburgh, it'd cost me about £400 a year! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahBell Posted January 15, 2016 Author Share Posted January 15, 2016 More than 9,000 asylum seekers were left destitute last year, according to new figures from the British Red Cross.http://www.redcross.org.uk/About-us/News/2016/January/Record-number-of-UK-asylum-seekers-destitute Around a quarter of the 23,500 asylum seekers arriving in the UK each year are sent to Greater Manchester, making it one of the country’s key dispersal areas. £860/refugee over 5 years. That'll stop them being destitute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigantic Purple Slug Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 Two lots of crap I see. First, car parking machines. First the old ones. Then upgraded to ones that put your car reg number on because everyone was passing on the tickets. Then they upgraded to credit card ones because the charges are so effing huge you need plastic to pay for them. Rubbish. The bin men seem to spend more time hunting through the rubbish to check the rubbish than actually collecting it. If they just collected it then dumped it that would probably cost less than them being employed for 2x as long collecting it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPin Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 Our local bin collection/ recycling trucks come out in the rush hour to block up the road! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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