Revolutionary ideas

How about the council cease getting consultants to waste money, employ their own staff for council work, stop outsourcing. When the shock wears off, we could have civic amenity sites that took people’s waste without charging,or having rules designed to prevent use, and instead make it so easy that people would find fly tipping more trouble than using the local tip. The astounding realisation that cleaning up fly tipping costs money, could make a councillor famous. Town car parks should be free for the first two hours for local residents, our town centres might become more attractive to shop in, local businesses would have a fighting chance against the out of town (with free parking), superstores.

Of course, none of this will happen, instead we will have more bureaucratic nonsense, higher car park charges, no public toilets, and plenty of fly tipping.

All of this will be forgotten as we twin with another foreign town, the benefits will be apparent only to those who organise it.