As the measures designed to deal with The deficit begin to unfold, people; businesses and organisations all over the country are tightening their belts.
Many people will lose their jobs. Many businesses will go to the wall. Speed cameras are being switched off; some swimming baths and libraries are closing; some street and motorway lights are to be switched off. Everyone is, or if they're not, they soon will be, feeling the pinch.
Everyone, that is, except good old Sandwell, the wasteland which is full of waste.
Sandwell continues to float blithely along in its bubble, isolated from, or, more likely, in denial of, what's going on in the rest of the world.
Another example?
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This week Sandwell have chopped down a perfectly good line of small tees/large shrubs at the entrance to the Swan Pool car park, and converted it into a woven topped fence.
Such would be quite unnecessary at any time. Indeed, it has created yet another eyesore where nature formerly did a perfectly adequate job and in a most aesthetic way.
But to do it now, when responsible councils are checking every last penny spent, right down to their usage of paper clips, it shows just how out of touch Sandwell is.
Add to this the fact that during the last 3 or 4 years Sandwell have 'created' 7 more of these fences in Sandwell Valley, and all of them have been taken apart to a greater or lesser extent by ne'er-do-wells. One of these fences (the first one) was actually replaced by Sandwell last year by a conventional wooden fence!!
You would think that someone at Sandwell would have learnt some sort of a lesson by now.
I wonder how long it will be before this latest habitat destroying; waste of money of an eyesore is similarly dismantled?
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