I would like to nominate Ipswich Borough Council (and all councils that waste local taxpayers’ money)
I feel almost duty bound to post a local story which has left me feeling stunned and angered for many months for a decision made by our local council.
Despite being approximately £8m in deficit and closing many necessary local services our local council has in its infinite wisdom decided to prioritise and spend £3.6 million pounds ripping up and replacing Ipswich’s Cornhill.
It was an extremely lengthy process, due to the fact that some of the stones laid were the wrong sort of stones (unsuitable for wheelchair users) which then had to be lifted and the correct stones ordered and relaid.
Whilst the work was undertaken the local market traders were moved to a different location and they along with several businesses complained bitterly as to the effects this had on footfall. Also businesses from outside the area were given permission to trade in addition to existing market traders.
Now that the development has been completed I went to take a look. To be honest it looks cheap, uninspiring and totally impractical. Some of the structures have already been vandalised with graffiti. Cannot see how the constructors can justify the cost and in my opinion a complete fucking misuse and waste of local taxpayers’ money.
In addition, due to the many different slopes and steps there have already been seven serious accidents and last week a death of an 83 year old man who slipped on the steps. The story from our local rag has been included below.
A man has died after falling down steps in a town square just weeks after new groundwork was laid in a major revamp.
“John Stow, 83, slipped in the Cornhill in Ipswich while shopping on Saturday, and died from his injuries on Sunday.
His sister Vivien Pryke said the family would be looking for answers from the town’s borough council.
New paving and steps were unveiled in November. The council said it was “deeply saddened” and was investigating.
Since a 10-month programme costing £3.6m was completed at the Cornhill, seven incidents have been reported to the council.
In addition to the pointless spending of £3.6m on a pointless new town square, I suspect there will need to be very expensive amendments made to the existing layout, followed by several compensation claims paid out.
Total cost almost certainly in excess of £5m, and for what? Something that looks worse than it did before, several people seriously injured and the death of a pensioner.
Well done Ipswich Borough Council.
Nominated by Willie Stroker
Councils are cunts. There is a 30 metre stretch of road outside Boots in Sandown that was resurfaced three times in 4 months. God knows why. I’ve never worked in the public sector but, having a financial background, I would love to look at ANY councils books. I reckon the attitude is that it’s not our money so why should we care.
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No the money wasn’t wasted Willie boy. A large chunk of it went into the pockets of the relatives and “acquaintances “ of the corrupt cunts who decided that this “environmental refurbishment “ was necessary in the first place. Giving out taxpayers money on public contracts makes you a very powerful cunt indeed…….and popular, obviously.
Ladies and gentlemen I give you……..HS2 ! All aboard for the gravy train! Passengers are advised to take their luggage and belongings with them when they alight from the train.
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I hate fucking graffiti, its a blot on any landscape and is only further encouraged by so called street art. It used to be seen by everyone as an antisocial stain on society but now no one gives a fuck….. Broken fucking Britain.
I used to live in Tunbridge Wells and the council installed clock struckture in the town centre, the base was made from stone flags, looked quite nice…. not for long, the great unwashed soon chipped bits of stone off the base with the urban sport of ‘jumping skate boards’ another fucking usless passtime.
Councils ar cunts, they should spend the bare minimum on public spaces because they know full well that it will be fucked up by the fucking out of control youth of today …. CUNTS
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His sister said the family would be looking for answers from the town’s borough council and £3 million in compensation. Mrs F is just putting her stiletto heels on. I’ll bruise her face a bit before we catch the Ipswich bus. Sounds like the Freebricks are involved if it was pointless work on the square.. Why haven’t the bastards been cunted on here?
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A couple of years ago my cunting council spent fuck knows how much on a set of these outdoor exercise machines that you see in parks. Fair enough you might think, people get fitter and healthier, less NHS resources used up in the long term…..a good investment.
The trouble is they located them on a small little green between a block of flats and about 10 yards from one of the busiest roads in South London. Now how many unfit, overweight cunts want to exercise in front of passing pedestrians and mouthy cunts in passing cars taking the piss? How many people want to exercise while breathing the fumes from the traffic jams that are 10 yards away every rush hour? And if they did use them I imagine the people who’s windows overlook them wouldn’t be too keen on all the grunting and groaning throughout the summer evenings.
Needless to say the only use I have seen is little kids climbing on them and dogs pissing up them. Yet there’s a small park 50 yards down the road where people could have used them. away from the traffic and random passing cunts and not disturbing anyone.
No, let’s not use any common sense for fucks sake. I fucking despair.
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When Miley Cyrus dons a pair of stilettos and skin tight silver hot pants, and then proceeds to prance around while licking a hammer in a provocative manner, it’s defined as art.
When I do it, I’m chucked out of B&Q….
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Breaking news!!!
Some Tory MP cunt arrested and charged for falsifying his expenses.
Tip of the iceberg.
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Was going to say, what, another? But can’t remember the last time any of our principled representatives actually went to court for their mendacity. Chris Davies (Con), two counts of forgery and one of providing false information. Sadly, he’s a member of the ERG, which might actually account for the zeal with which he has been pursued. A couple of the IGIS bunch never got chased…
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Not their money, sort of amature bbc mind set, fuck it let’s spend it
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Dover District Council Planning Department……..the best that money can buy, allegedly
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Off topic, but..
Jezza wants the ISIS whore back in the UK.
Well I never!
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Makes sense… after all she’s a fellow traveller.
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Dear fellow Cunters:
A MASSIVE thank you to all, especially Herr Fiddler, for your recent support and encouragement.
There may be light at the end of the tunnel…
Oh, and Corbyn is a CUNT. So is Dawn Butler. Man, she loves that Chicken!
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Glad to hear that things are looking a bit brighter for you, Krav….let them know that you’re an obstreperous,intractable old Poof with the tenacity of a superglued limpet.
I would say “Stick it up’em”….but perhaps not.
🙂 .
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Thank you, Herr Fiddler.
Who dear? Me dear? gay dear?
No dear!
Just because a man lives with another man and listens to Barry Manilow does not make one a limp wristed old poof! Or maybe…
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Born in Ipswich and lived there until 1979.
Only been back twice.
Was a nice town back then, but seems to have morphed into another dreary multi effnick shitehole, presided over by a bunch of cunts only to eager to fill their guts from the public purse.
I’d read about the old boy dying (manslaughter?) online.
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Last time I was in Ipswich I vaguely remember it all being dug up, I thought that was the improvement?
Oxford Council years ago did an exercise of spending millions on seats that ended up being used for nothing more than urinals on a Saturday night, and propping ur bike up against.
Never once seen anyone use them for sitting on. Silly Cunts.
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I live 40 miles down the road in Chelmsford. This time each year a whole load of pavement highering/lowering takes place as well as unnecessary roadworks. You know they are spending the rest of their budget so the cunts can justify the uplift in March’s council tax.
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100% agree i hate this town, constantly doing roadworks and wasting money on this shitty town center, thats what happens when u vote labor in. fucking cunts
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I’ll ask you one question: have you ever met a councillor who wasn’t:
– thick as a castle wall.
– an interfering busy body with some personal agenda or cause, the council being the medium to further that agenda/cause (but at the public expense rather than from their own arse pocket – most are happy to spend YOUR money whilst invariably being tight as fishes arses themselves).
– looking to abuse their authority by sourcing the worst possible/most expensive contract suppliers (but who have the most palm-grease to hand).
– cynically using a council position merely as a stepping stone to Whitehall.
Most I have met/seen tick at least one of the above.
Being a councillor is not (in most cases) a full time job, and those who do throw their hats into the ring are those least suited to be there.
They are invariably a replication of the shambles of Cuntminster in miniature and some of the budgets these cunts are in charge of (particularly those in some boroughs of Laaaahhhndan Tarn) is fucking eye-watering!
Decisions made by these cunts go from the sublime to the ridiculous. When I was working in Lutonistab, 3 Counties Radio covered a story where once council spent a small fortune on the virtue-signalling installation of gender neutral toilets – while in the same breath said there were no monies available to keep a respite centre open for severely disabled children (just to allow their parents an hour to go shopping, etc.).
Utter madness!
And when you hear of “Well it wasn’t broken in the first place, so why fix it?” examples as above in Ipswich, you just know it has been driven by kickbacks, pure and simple.
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Councils typify the self important, unquestionable face of the public sector in this country. Cunts the lot of them. My mate used to work for the local council in Environmental Services. He said generally what happened with staff was the shit ones the council were too scared to sack for fear of litigation. Only way to get rid of them was to promote them into other departments, where of course they then became shit, under qualified staff which the council then paid to complete degrees or certification to help them do the job that they should never have been moved to in the first place. This eventually just meant you had shit, ‘qualified’ staff in senior positions. Only way to get rid of them was to promote them to not other roles and so it went on. Kind of explains the utter fuckwittedness displayed regularly. Unaccountable and happy to preach their way is the right way. Frankly, i’d Suggest just shutting them all down and then only reemploying thise that are actually missed. They seem to be happy spunking away cash in pointless projects just because it scores points on the race, sex, sexuality front.
And don’t even get me started on pensions. Seen figures which state anywhere between 20 and 34% of your council tax goes on paying for these cunts pensions, basically because they’ve failed to reform in line with what happened in the private sector about two decades ago. Just fuck off, self entitled wankers.
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