I challenge you to make me laugh.

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Smiffy

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Brendan said:
Jobs for the boys, suppose he also recommends that his own company is best suited to meet their needs.

The reason the council's are in such a poor state is that no one has common sense, it's not their money so they just don't care. They just waste a horrendous amount of money, how many other consultants are creaming away with other tasks.

Not being funny it can't be rocket science they know how much it costs to get X amount of holes filled or roads resurfaced and then on top of that have some fancy van with sonar/laser or whatever it is driving about checking road surfaces.

Instead of giving someone 1k a day they could employ some numpty for 20k or whatever amount, give them a little Noddy van and just have them driving around the county's roads checking road surfaces and pot holes.

Either that or stop doing these crappy top dressing repairs that last a year or two, if that. They redid a section near me a few months ago......


Which failed due to wind or rain or some other crappy excuse so needed the repair l, repairing 🙄
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But they already employ lots of numpties in body vans as well
The hole highways situation is a joke


Our local council fines the highways department which is run by one of the national companies if there is any form of infringement on site
This can be as little as a torn cone sleeve
This is to try and claw back money
What they don't realize is that the job cost 10x what any fines collected are as everyone goes off as they are paranoid about fines and also over price the job to account any fines

They also charge themselves for the permits to work on there own roads
 
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Brendan

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Smiffy said:
But they already employ lots of numpties in body vans as well
The hole highways situation is a joke


Our local council fines the highways department which is run by one of the national companies if there is any form of infringement on site
This can be as little as a torn cone sleeve
This is to try and claw back money
What they don't realize is that the job cost 10x what any fines collected are as everyone goes off as they are paranoid about fines and also over price the job to account any fines

They also charge themselves for the permits to work on there own roads
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Lad doing the road closure say they get a £1500 fine from the council if a barrier gets left behind
 
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Brendan

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V8Druid said:
totally agree with @Brendan ....... absolute waste of public money .... no one is worth £360 grand a year for eloquent BS 😡
And all these bloody LAs're the same .... jobs for the boys and money for old rope .... aaaaaand WTF are LAs doing dabbling with public funds investing in out of county land deals/purchases - ours bought a retail park out of county that no one else had even sniffed at in 2 years ... for multi millions that they supposedly didn't have to run services in county .... who the hell mandated these tin Gods to do anything other than run the county's public services ..... dare say there are dozens of similar 'happenings' country wide .... pay them selves inordinate amounts to dabble in things they're barely qualified to.🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
I could write a thesis on our LAs appalling antics over the last 20 years
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Idiots at northants council aren't much better, tell everyone to not pay upfront for work to be done then hand over £10 million for the football ground to be extended..... Which then disappeared, spend £50 million on a new hq to then sell it and lease it. I'm not sure if it's the same building but they sold one for a stupid price or £1 or £10 to then buy it back for a massive price as it was "cheaper" for someone else to renovate and make changes than to do it themselves, not really sure how that one works but imagine it's a big back hander from some pocketing tens of thousands
 
Lancs Lad

Lancs Lad

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Liverpool's mayor and co is one staggeringly brazen bent/dodgy setup.
And the mysterious tier 2 when everyone one else was in tier 4...and now they got biggest rates in country 🤣🤣 couldn't make it up.
Preston's not much better , leader of council awarded vehicle maintenance contract to a company...and yes he just happened to be a director of🤣🤬🤬
 
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Smiffy

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Brendan said:
Lad doing the road closure say they get a £1500 fine from the council if a barrier gets left behind
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Yeah and depending on who it is that can be per day there's a fail
If you get an inspection from the hauc then it's per fail per day and this is regardless of the condition the site was in when you left it so if a car runs through the site after you leave knocking all the cones down and shortly after a hauc inspector comes through it could be a massive fine
 
Lancs Lad

Lancs Lad

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doobin

doobin

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Mogman

Mogman

What man as done, man can do, what never has,maybe
Lancs Lad said:
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Sure got it emptied though
a few years ago a guy parked his car (at the scrapyard) where all the other scrap cars were kept ready for de-polluting when the lad who drains the fuel, oil etc. lifted it onto the stand ready to drill the fuel tank😳 luckily no damage as he couldn’t find the air drill in time😆😆
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
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Canal Navvy

Canal Navvy

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At least they're not as bad as scaffolders 😁

Remind me ........ how much more does a good bricklayer get paid than a good plant operator ?
Perhaps not as daft as they seem 😉
 
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Brendan

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Canal Navvy said:
At least they're not as bad as scaffolders 😁

Remind me ........ how much more does a good bricklayer get paid than a good plant operator ?
Perhaps not as daft as they seem 😉
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Depends where they are working, heard Kelly's are paying north of £200 for operators so more than a lot of brickies
 
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