On 03/05/2021 13:17, T i m wrote:
On Mon, 3 May 2021 11:30:35 +0100, "tim..."
wrote:

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The PCCs job is strategy, not operation

Stats on charges and convictions tell you very little about whether (s)he
has done a good job in the past

Quite and further highlights how some people can be easily swayed by
the wrong information.

Slagging off the local council for not collecting your plastic
recycling ... because you contaminated it with stuff not on the
documented list ... and then they only get a fraction of the value
from the recycler ... then they can't offset the cost of collecting
the waste so effectively ... and so have to put *everyone's* rates up.

All the idiot complaining that their recycling wasn't collected sees
is that their recycling wasn't collected, blaming the council not
themselves.

But in my area all the multi-million pound follies are there for all to
see and even the council have admitted they have made mistakes.

I see from my local council news letter that they have finished with a
road improvement project which, with a series of other road
improvements, has meant many years of major traffic disruption. Good
news you may think but....

The road improvement included extending a right turn lane as well as
providing more lane space for those travelling straight on. The problem
with the latter is that as soon as the junction is cleared three lanes
immediately go back to two. The former improvement has resulted in a
narrowing of the central reservation area. Now they seem to have
discovered that they need a pedestrian crossing in the same place and
the central reservation is too narrow for a pedestrian safety island -
guess what they are going to do next?


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