Local Councils are fast becoming the curse of the 21st century…
Admittedly, they’ve been gifted some extraordinary new powers by Central Government and, like the adolescent coming of age, they have little idea how to use their new found freedom and routinely act to excess.
They find ever-increasing ways to ‘fine’ us – sometimes completely ignoring the law. They find ridiculous excuses to ban things that people enjoy and which hold communities together.
They flout the law on surveillance and generally treat people with contempt. The list is endless.
And I can’t for the life of me understand their agenda. Unfortunately, this little story does little to enlighten me…
Tunbridge Wells Council have now banned the expression ‘brainstorming’ and in future, meetings to generate new ideas will be referred to as ‘thought showers’.
Councillors are concerned ‘brainstorming’ may be offensive to epileptics – and this is despite a survey by the National Society for Epilepsy, which concluded with a resounding No. It certainly wasn’t deemed offensive at all.
Unsurprisingly, the Council believe they know best and issued a very ‘telling’ statement.
“We take diversity issues very seriously.”
We take talking bollocks very seriously, more like!
Well, if this is an example of their ‘thought showers’, they obviously live in an arid desert.
Admittedly, they’ve been gifted some extraordinary new powers by Central Government and, like the adolescent coming of age, they have little idea how to use their new found freedom and routinely act to excess.
They find ever-increasing ways to ‘fine’ us – sometimes completely ignoring the law. They find ridiculous excuses to ban things that people enjoy and which hold communities together.
They flout the law on surveillance and generally treat people with contempt. The list is endless.
And I can’t for the life of me understand their agenda. Unfortunately, this little story does little to enlighten me…
Tunbridge Wells Council have now banned the expression ‘brainstorming’ and in future, meetings to generate new ideas will be referred to as ‘thought showers’.
Councillors are concerned ‘brainstorming’ may be offensive to epileptics – and this is despite a survey by the National Society for Epilepsy, which concluded with a resounding No. It certainly wasn’t deemed offensive at all.
Unsurprisingly, the Council believe they know best and issued a very ‘telling’ statement.
“We take diversity issues very seriously.”
We take talking bollocks very seriously, more like!
Well, if this is an example of their ‘thought showers’, they obviously live in an arid desert.
1 comment:
I'm afraid they're all at it . . .
At the weekend, a spokesman for (I think) Hampshire County Council was on the telly saying how they'd banned Bouncy Castles from children's parties. What next, banning jelly and ice-cream because it's too wobbly and too cold?!? Tossers.
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