A DEVASTATING attack by the recently redundant town centre coordinator and the Chamber of Commerce, which valued him so highly they’re thinking of employing him themselves.
A justifiable haranguing of the cabbage patch — sorry, cabinet — member responsible for street trading licences after the party that bleats incessantly about ‘more help for the small businessman’ has put him out of business.
The resignation of a member of the cabinet to try to retain some credibility.
Planning protests in Cheadle.
Objections to the farming-out of already controversial parking regulation enforcement to a private company (I suppose you just can’t get that extra special “jobsworth” world view on a council wage).
Once again, the list goes on. Well, they do say a week’s a long time in politics.
Our trusty and well-beloved leader’s response to the forces besieging her beleaguered administration? Councillor Ralphs gets her photo taken attending the grand opening of a chippy.
At least this time it’s not a toilet.
Unfortunately there’s not a fine line between remaining calm, cool and collected in the face of adversity and hoping that if you ignore it for long enough it’ll all just get bored and go away.
There is, in fact, a yawning chasm.
It would appear our glorious leaders have landed, with the depressing inevitability of a bunch of anti- Midases, slap bang on the wrong side of that chasm. Again.
Bearing in mind that we live in what purports to be a democracy and very soon they’ll be pestering us to lend them our votes, our glorious leaders’ inability to recognise that it’s us, the voters, who are the ones besieging them seems just a tad naive.
Either that, or one could suspect that they’re working for the ‘other side’.
Either way, as a strategy it must surely rank alongside offering Hannibal Lecter a relaxing massage while wearing Eau De Spam.
Then again, bright ideas aren’t exactly this administration’s forte.
Roll on election day.
RICK MARTIN-BACON
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