Pevenseagull
Anti-greed coalition
- Jul 20, 2003
- 19,664
I got Peter Moore, from what I've seen that's quite accurate.
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[Misc] Handford Parish Council Zoom meeting
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I got Peter Moore, from what I've seen that's quite accurate.
Pevenseagull
Anti-greed coalition
- Jul 20, 2003
- 19,664
'I made Handforth Parish Council go viral'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-55955288
"Piers Morgan, Richard Osman and some great drag queens sub-tweeted it."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-55955288
"Piers Morgan, Richard Osman and some great drag queens sub-tweeted it."
portlock seagull
Why? Why us?
- Jul 28, 2003
- 17,199
The gift that keeps giving! I watched a good 15mins of that and it’s hilarious. All complete gobbydygook, they’re all trying to sound important, and adopt obfuscating language. Badly! A meeting of pretentious peacocks when all are just Tits. Consequently no one understands anything and nobody’s actually listening to one another. Add to the ingredients a generous dose of barely concealed contempt, rhetorical questions posed with a venomously delivery and you’ve got the classic that is petty English officialdom! Glorious isn’t it?!
Dick Swiveller
Well-known member
- Sep 9, 2011
- 9,163
I have the authority as I got Carol ******* Baskin - I mean Jackie Weaver.
That 'Chair' is an utter prick !
Nitram
Well-known member
- Jul 16, 2013
- 2,178
I’m #TeamBritney
dejavuatbtn
Well-known member
It just shows there’s some nasty pieces of work running elements of this country.
The elements they run are normally in inconsequential to most. The budget are minimal. The one I had dealings with the clerk wages were half of the whole budget. Flowers on the green and the hire of the village hall appeared to be about it. Oh and planning which they no authority over but could only give a view. If the view didn’t have any legal standpoint it was dismissed anyway.
I said of one councillor, who had been on the council for 30 plus years, to the chair, is she on any committee’s? Oh no she said but she does make the tea at all the meetings. Haha
The gift that keeps giving! I watched a good 15mins of that and it’s hilarious. All complete gobbydygook, they’re all trying to sound important, and adopt obfuscating language. Badly! A meeting of pretentious peacocks when all are just Tits. Consequently no one understands anything and nobody’s actually listening to one another. Add to the ingredients a generous dose of barely concealed contempt, rhetorical questions posed with a venomously delivery and you’ve got the classic that is petty English officialdom! Glorious isn’t it?!
Classic HPC moment at 4 mins. Rising tension.
dejavuatbtn
Well-known member
Which just makes this whole thing the more ridiculous. Some jumped up arrogant northern blokes being quite horrible and nasty. Remind us of any others?
Archer ?
Highly entertaining!
But speaking as a current Parish Councillor (six months in, and regretting it!) the workload is phenomenal. We are fighting two major housing developments on greenfield sites in the village, undertaking a flood alleviation project, working on a carbon neutral plan for the village, responding to consultations on public transport links, trying to reduce the speed limits on a couple of roads through the village (the bureaucracy involved in this is unbelievable), working on a project to reduce the use of glysophates for weed-control, working with Wessex Water to reduce foul water discharges into the river that runs through the village....I could go on. All the parish councillors do it for nothing, and rarely get any thanks for all their time and commitment!
But speaking as a current Parish Councillor (six months in, and regretting it!) the workload is phenomenal. We are fighting two major housing developments on greenfield sites in the village, undertaking a flood alleviation project, working on a carbon neutral plan for the village, responding to consultations on public transport links, trying to reduce the speed limits on a couple of roads through the village (the bureaucracy involved in this is unbelievable), working on a project to reduce the use of glysophates for weed-control, working with Wessex Water to reduce foul water discharges into the river that runs through the village....I could go on. All the parish councillors do it for nothing, and rarely get any thanks for all their time and commitment!
The one I had dealings with were great to start with. I was for many years the sports association chair, our pitches were PC owned and we leased them. On our committee we had to have one rep from the PC, he was really good. The chairwomen of the PC, again good. Unfortunately they all retired over time and then the egotistical crowd moved in. It ended up in one meeting me throwing across the table 30 years of minutes all contained in files at the presumptuous prick who had taken over. It got so bad in the village that the residents set up an alternative PC, loads of reporting to the County Council etc. I resigned my position and the whole committee did leaving them ego's to run their own sports ground. Badly I should add.
A little context we had as a committee and the PC along with the residents raised over £250000 to replace the pavilion, the new lot then wanted us to pay a huge increase in rent to pay them for the use of the facility we had built. I could go on and on and on.
Hampster Gull
New member
- Dec 22, 2010
- 13,462
And people want to de-centralise more....
Billy in Bristol
Well-known member
As they say in Bristol...where be to?
Iggle Piggle
Well-known member
- Sep 3, 2010
- 5,383
We haven't had "Posh spice is a slapper" for a while...
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Screaming J
He'll put a spell on you
That's where I work!
Dick Swiveller
Well-known member
- Sep 9, 2011
- 9,163
Something good has come of it. Jackie Weaver is giddy with excitement that she gets to meet Anton du Bek on Monday. And this is not a Crodo style post. She was on BBC Breakfast this morning and said so herself.
HantsSeagull
Well-known member
i saw this on twitter last night - was literally crying. brilliant.