If fact-finding missions to the bahamas were not bad enough, some are now wasting public money on, to quote the Telegraph (Nick Britten), 'chasing their tales'!
Mr Britten reports that Wealden District Council in East Sussex set up a working party to 'scrutinise the council's scrutiny arrangements.'
A council spokesman said the party was to improve services and save money.
Unsurprisingly, the TaxPayers Alliance was on it like a shot!
"the council appear to have wrapped themselves up in knots and ended up in an absurd situation," said Mark Wallace of the Alliance.
"Local residents would prefer they were asked how the council was run instead of adding this extra layer of bureaucracy."
ANALYSIS
The Alliance makes a fair point. Our government has become rather over-bureaucratic for its own good, in all areas. Two examples straight off my head are the police and the trams.
1. When phoning the police for an explanation as to why their online crime map marks a part of trinity, merton as 'high crime', I was told that the information 'could not be given over the phone.' Eh...why? What am I going to do with it? How is it in any way a danger to society?
2. 'This tram stop is a request stop'...but eh, excuse me, the tram stops at every stop. Waste of time and energy really...
From a news writing eye, the article is too Daily Mail intro, not getting to the sting until the third column. Not what I'd want in the Telegraph... Good thing this is a blog and so I do not have to write in a proper style!
No comments:
Post a Comment