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Monday 3 March 2014

Council Nonsense

I don't watch the News very often but sometimes our local news, BBC Look North, is quite amusing.  There was a report recently about a Council in Lincolnshire where the councillors have been awarded a 26% pay rise. This is at a time of huge Council cutbacks, job losses, pay freezes for the workers....the whole austerity thing.  
 
Well, there was a lot of bluster and commotion about this and, of course, it wasn't the councillors' fault because an independent body had awarded them the pay rise and there was nothing they could do about it...blah blah...that same old story that we know so well.  
 
Anyway, the leader of said Council, who actually looked as if he needed the extra spondooliks (teeth missing, sticky up hair, the dragged through a hedge backwards look), informed the BBC reporter that he was refusing the pay rise.  Good for you, setting a good example for the others. 

The reporter then interviewed another old duffer councillor who voiced his very loud opinion about it being scandalous, outrageous, ridiculous in this era of austerity, council cutbacks, libraries closing..blabbity blah blah blah.  When asked if he was refusing to take the pay rise, there was an audible sharp intake of breath and a look of sheer panic on his face.  "Well...eh...ahem...yes...quite..well, I  shall have to seriously consider it." Boom Boom. You just can't make this stuff up.






 

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  2. I know this is slightly "off-piste" but I don't think the "Look North" you receive in East Yorkshire is right. Here in Sheffield we receive a different "Look North" that purports to report on news events in Yorkshire. And yet they ignore East Yorkshire! That is just wrong and I guess it is a Tory/Etonian plan to thwart the forthcoming Yorkshire Revolution - when we cast off the yoke of Westminster and strike out alone. Free at last! Free at last! God almighty, free at last! Blabbity blah blah blah!

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  3. I am laughing out loud Yorkshire Pudding man. Yes, our Look North is different to yours. It's for East Yorks & Lincs only. The only time we get your Look North is if we get a new telly and we don't tune it in right.

    And yes...we will have our FREEEEEEEDOM!!! Soon. Power to the Yorkshire people! (and the Scottish ones who live here, i.e. moi).

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    1. Eh? "Moi" is a French word...come to think of it so is "Printemps"! Real Scots use Scottish words like "cockaleekie", "hen" and "oot" - as in "The Broons".

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    2. See you Jimmy. Is your real name Mr Pudding? Molly P is my alter ego, or the name I hide under because I've talked about some of the neighbours in my posts. My real name is Carol.

      Och, I'm away now tae peel some tatties so I'll speak to you later, Monsieur Boudin de Yorkshire.



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    3. You could have used McPrintemps as your nom-de-plume! Not to be confused with McDonalds which confusingly serve French fries. But seriously having a pseudonym can be helpful - especially with advanced Google searches. I wonder what you said about the neighbours. Were you criticising their clothes peg deployment or their garden weeds?

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    4. The horsey lady in this post is one of my neighbours, as are Mr & Mrs Forrester (not their real names). http://mollyprintemps88.blogspot.co.uk/2012_01_01_archive.html

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    5. Oh Fluff...I don't know how to do a link on a comment post.

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    6. Old Mr Forrester should have reported those equestrians to the cops for imitating police officers! And please don't call me Fluff!

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