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DERBY’S DONUTS!
The City Council piles misery upon
misery for the unfortunate souls who voted it in.
The long list of get-rich-quick schemes (for the
few) continues to choke up the City and cause
daily angst for the poor unfortunates trying to
get in and out of the place. I mean don’t
mind us mister managing director of an
international investment company, we just
frigging live here.
Let’s get one thing straight. Derby City
Council is encouraging people to use their
vehicles to come into the city. And why
shouldn’t it, car park charges have risen
through the stratosphere, and the Council has to
make sure that it gets its pound (or thousands of
them) of flesh. Don’t try and beat the
system, or, if you do, watch out, 25 traffic
wardens are out to get you, meeting and greeting,
city dweller and tourist alike. Of course,
parking isn’t a problem for them. At least
one produced his own fake parking ticket until he
got rumbled. (I bet there’s at least a few
dozen been hurriedly torn up by now!).
Mind you, you could always buy one of the 50
zillion flats being crammed, shoehorned and
squashed into every nook and cranny available in
the City. Perhaps soon, we might see a situation
like they have in parts of Japan, where people
hire out sleeping boxes, especially handy for the
stressed commuter who can’t beat the jams.
“Can’t beat that jam? Not to worry,
here’s another one, £18.50 for the night
please!”. Tea chests will be available for
students and the unwaged. Dorothy Skrytek’s
rooftop caravan would seem like 5 star compared
to that, wouldn’t it?
You can’t really risk a bus journey can you?
At a time of growing crisis and problems in
transport, what does Derby City Council do?
Knocks down the neglected bus station to make
room for a scheme for private profiteers, makes
temporary stops in exposed places all around the
Market Place so that people haven’t a clue
what’s happening or where they should be,
doesn’t care if they’re wet or cold,
and times it to happen right in the middle of the
chaos caused by the work on the inner ring road
– perfect! A terrorist might have made a
worse job of it.
Still, with all the prosperity from all the
cock-eyed schemes, at least it might be worth the
pain, right? Er, no. Oh, no, no, no, no! Not
enough pain, we can’t afford the Lancaster
Sports Centre! What! No, sorry, we’ve raised
council tax and, we’ve got to raise it
again, but we just can’t cook, sorry,
balance the books. Don’t think that
you’re on your own, we’ve hit services
for the elderly too, and just so the young
aren’t left out, we’ve introduced
charges for summer holiday activities for those
who can’t afford to go away, oh, and to save
a bit more we’re cutting back on the Sinfin
to Derby Moor Sports College bus. Well, we had to
back down on closing public toilets, closing
Pickford’s House and the Industrial Museum
didn’t we?
Just for good measure, we’re going to put
out some more of those useless forms that ask
people what they think of Council services.
Pointless, yes, costly?.... for you yes, but they
do tend to draw a bit of heat away from the mess
we keep making of things don’t they?
The Council can be positive of course. It does
concentrate on things like the large video screen
project in the Market Place. That’s what the
City needs! A large video screen. That will keep
the homeless and the mentally challenged busy!
For good measure, we’ll cram the Quad in
there too.
That should be good for Derby shouldn’t it?
The Quad Centre. What a pile of crap. Top class,
pile of crap though. A box of rubbish, rubbish
design, rubbish shown in it. The pseuds will have
a field day. Guess what? I went to the Quad
today! Wow! (yawn). Yeah, yer know, its that pile
of shit in the corner of the Market Place, the
one that the City Council sanctioned, took part
of a memorial garden and the public open space
that everyone wanted to keep but the Council
wanted to build this pile of shit in the name of
culture. Yeah, lovely ain’t it?
Yeah, and don’t forget that the Council
leader, Chris Williamson, has gone on record as
saying that he is backing the County
Council’s plan to get rid of Elvaston
Castle! No! not that lovely 325 acre public park
that 700,000 people a year like to visit, just on
the edge of the city? he is? Yep! Thinks that a
golf course and a hotel that 65,000 local voters
don’t want at any price is a good idea!
Well! No wonder then. Seems like Derby’s
going to be in the Dark Ages for some time to
come!
Do me an effing favour will you? Next time the
Council elections come around, just think who it
is that’s making a complete and utter
rickets of this once great place!
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