General Discussion
Have you had a reply to the email you sent to your TDC councillor?
Burneside. I didn't say that your original analogy held no validity, just that I disagreed with it. I can just about recall those dark days of 40 years ago as I was still at school at the time - but I don't know the ins and outs of what happened then. Netiquette, you've hit the nail on the head.
Sorry if the photo of the television from my sofa isn't legible. The FT is available to buy today. I disagree with your analogy. The whole point of this debate is how we go about living within our means. Tax cuts for millionaires and food cuts for hardworking people isn't the answer.
Those that doubt the impact of the austerity cuts upon local council services might be surprised to read that Monday's Financial Times disagrees with you doubters.
Thank you Netiquette.
ALLEMS, what you're failing to digest is that the cutting back of services, thanks to the Tory/LibDem austerity project, means that council staff ARE losing their jobs! You do realise that don't you? To say that council staff are not hardworking is an outrageous generalisation and so totally wrong. PS This thread isn't about me, please keep it on-topic. Thank you.
That's true Lynne. However why they would be at the Dawlish Warren outer car park is anyone's guess, unless they had some sort of mobility assistance to get them to the sea front. My point still stands though re the odious suggestion of sacking hardworking people just in order to save the loos - there has to be a better solution to the challenge. In the meantime, good luck to those challenging ...
With regard to your opinion about long-term savings of redundancies, the point is that ALLEMS wanted redundancies in order to keep those loos open. In other words he wanted people to lose their jobs to save people having to walk 100 yards - what an unpleasant person. He wanted a short-term solution to this challenge; making people redundant, in my opinion, isn't the solution. If you feel no ...
Well that didn't last long. Some people can't help themselves. I apologise to everyone else on behalf of Burneside, who clearly doesn't think that posts on here should be constructive. Hey-ho.
Our reflect. Do you not realise how much redundancy costs as well? A quick Google - 2010/11 and 2011/12 financial years - 11 were made redundant at a total cost of £135K. And it's got worse since then!! So, if we were to use your logic and make even more redundant, then the £152K savings from doing what they've done to the outer car park loos would pale into insignificance I'm afraid as ...
