Eric Pickles dumps on Chris Smith.

[Ribenapigeon]

Im no fan of any tory but seeing Eric Pickles dump Chris Smith in the floating sewage made me wonder, if Chris Smith has any balls what should he do to Pickles in return?

[Quornholio]

[Ribenapigeon]

[Quornholio]

In fairness, I like a lot of what Pickles says. He's proactive in trying to make local government more accountable and transparent. It's a shame my local council are so corrupt and full of wankers, they won't go along with it.
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[Ribenapigeon]

I didn't realise but Chris Smith is actually a labour peer so that maybe explains Pickles behaviour a bit.

One funny thing on the news was someone supporting smith said if Pickles really wanted to be of help he should volanteer as a sand bag.

[N cee thirty]

Smith wins either way, someone sacks him, he'll get an epic payout, stay in the job doing sweet Fa and gets good pay, never mind the fact he's retiring in the summer,quango cunt.
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[Ed Case]

Must admit that I enjoy some of the embarrassing efforts that these politicians make when they're trying to push the blame somewhere else but I did like Pickles' 'up front' remarks. Chris Smith is on a loser from the start when he's an alleged 'shirt lifter'.

[Mark_F]

It's just the way the government, and the civil service, works. The only real way they have to keep their pay coming in, is to pass the buck onto someone else.

Of course it helps no end if the buck ends up stopping on a member of an opposing party, but really, they have no qualms about who it is that gets the blame (so long as they don't take it themselves).

[JonB]

I generally like Pickles.

BUT.

It's all well and good defamating somebody when the "emergency funds" and "political backtrack" taps have been opened. However, the Environment Agency, like all government departments have had to cut their cloth accordingly.

Maybe the Environment Agency didn't speak up enough in the past when cuts were made, but it is not exactly their fault our country cannot take this extreme weather.

What this has been good for is to demonstrate what woefully funded infrastructure the South West of England has.

Want to get to the English Riveira or Cornwall by train? Sorry, this train ends at Exeter.

All of a sudden Network Rail are spending millions on repairing Dawlish and have even put their name to funding an alternative route in mid-Devon, which is apparently only about £100m. About bloody time seeing as the government has no problem supporting London based rail projects such as HS2 (£50bn), Crossrail (£18bn) and a new hub airport (£makeupyourownfigurehere).

Now, if we could have a fully completed A303 I will be very happy.


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[Quornholio]

No matter which party the person votes for/belongs to, if they aren't doing their job, they should be sacked.

In the space of 4 years, the once-promising school my mrs' lad goes to is now being discussed as being made an academy of. Headteacher worse than useless. It's a 'specialist' school in Maths, ICT and music. Computers are the best part of 8 years old, the instruments available in music is comparable with those you would throw out for being useless, and the Maths has been flagged up numerous times for being inadequate in teaching.

Headteacher creaming a nice fat salary, and seen to do little.

Why has nothing been done sooner?
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[Ribenapigeon]

Just saw Pickles on the news doing some slimey arsed backtracking. What a plonker.

[Ribenapigeon]

[Quornholio]

The money for the specialist status was only pulled in 2010. I left school in the early 2000's, and came out of it with decent grades, from a school that was generalised as being a drop out school.

The school in question has gone to the dogs in 4 years, in fact since the new headteacher took over. It's been run as a joke, screwing the parents for money at every given opportunity, outsourcing swimming to a local leisure centre DESPITE the school having its own pool facilities, which they decided to fill with second hand office furniture.

All the while, headteacher is taking a salary in the £50k+ region, and then to turn the school into an academy will probably mean she will be granted a nice wage rise, courtesy of the arselicking going on between her and the (may as well be) closed board of governors.

If that isn't rewarding failure, I don't know what is.

The point I do agree with you on is pointless degrees - If you want to study the Beatles to degree level, you should be putting the cash in up front. I also think degrees such as in engineering and science should be subsidised or similar, to try and get some promising talent through, into areas we are lacking in creativity, knowledge and ambition.
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[owl10]

Not really on topic, but.

Grandparents used to live on the levels in burnham on sea (down the road form bridgwater)

Previously lived elsewhere on the levels.

They'd been saying for years that since the late 90's and years of relatively good weather the council had gone from clearing all the ditches (and dredging) every year without fail, to doing it about every 5 years, maybe.

Loads of them are full of silt, fallen trees and the odd shopping trolley.

Would the drainage system have been able to cope if it was maintained?

Who know's, arguably maybe not.

But Im sure as hell it'd have done better than it has, and would have drained the exisiting water away quicker than it will now do.

a few years of being able to make cost cutting 'savings' with no apparent negative effect has come back to bite, but who cares as long as its the other lot in power?

To be fair its one of the things a labour government should have been good at justifying and keeping, instead 'New Labour' spent it all on quangos and five a day co-ordinators and full time swahili translators.
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[N cee thirty]

It's rather backwards that anyone that isn't the environment agency can get charged by the police for cleaning drains etc, smith and the like are following EU directives which want to reintroduce wading bids in to the downs, and how do they do this? by just adding water, so not bothering to maintain a man made system is just what they planned to do, eventually it will be perma flooded wildlife paradise, shame wildlife comes before humans in this instance.
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