Kin Politicians!

I think there is a direct correlation between my age and my disapproval of politicians.  Jake Berry, our local lad sent me a letter the other week telling me that a road I had reported as being problematic with pot holes had been repaired.  And no doubt Jakes “Pot-Holes Repaired” cell on his spreadsheet increased in value by one (I bet he’s clever enough to assign a macro to the cell that plays a little fanfare sound every time the value changes up).  He’ll give us the good news in his next monthly “Look How Brilliant Jake Is” newsletter no doubt.

What actually happened on the road is someone turned up and threw some tarmac into some of the holes.  I say someone, I can only presume primary school children.  It definitely wasn't roadwork professionals.  The road is even worse than it was.

And that’s the thing with all these politicians.  Potholes seemed to be the No.1 priority in all of the local election manifestos, and if you can’t sort such a simple problem like that out how are you going to cope when we face the really big issues?  Talk about setting your targets low!  I’m reminded of the Steven Wright quote, “Eagles may soar, but at least weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines”.

And yesterday Jakes team dropped off a questionnaire.  It was a set of questions about dog shit, the local bus service and more pot holes.  It also included the question, “Disregarding the politics, who would you most likely vote for in the next general election?” and gave 3 possible answers, David Cameron, Ed Miliband or Other. 

Brilliant!  So the Conservatives are condescending enough to think I need spoon feeding.  Here are a limited number of questions that will soon translate to, “we've spoken to the people of Rossendale and they are very concerned about potholes, dog shit and the local bus service, and that’s why we, the Conservatives, who listen to the people, are making these 3 issues a priority on our manifesto”, or summat like that!  Fact is, get someone in the council to drive around the roads and make a note of what roads need repairing.  Then get a professional to repair them.  Bus service, well get the private companies who run them to sort their shit out, and if they don’t, fine em.  And the dog shit, well Jake and his team need to get their gloves on and start picking shit up on the first Monday of every month.

For fucks sake!

Here are 2 photos I took in Rossendale this weekend.