Value for money? What’s that?

You really have to stand and stare, gobsmacked, at the job New Labour has done on local councils. They can’t get their dustmen to do their job, or if the dustmen are willing to work, the council’s ’elf ‘n’ safety nazis come up with a reason why they shouldn’t. But as the bin bags pile higher and higher, it’s not beyond the powers of local authorities to send out their enforcement squads and threaten residents with a big fine for putting up lost cat posters. And as for putting a stop to ripping off motorists with parking fines, or abolishing New Labour red tape, both of which our blessed Coalition government says it wants to do . . . In the words of the prophet, “Like that’s going to happen.” Not unless we introduce a Ministry of Pol Pot and start re-educating our local burrocrats.