Chesterfield Blog

Just been reading over at Chesterfield Forums that despite the recession and general economic downturn, Chesterfield Council have bought a new Lexus for the mayor.

At a time when all the talk is of the council tax going up and not enough money in the coffers to deliver promised services, how insensitive, greedy and smug could these powers-that-be get?

Local taxi driver, nickname Fly, saw the new black Lexus yesterday and noticed that it had the personalised number plate from the Jaguar limosine that quite adequately served the borough well for many years.

Whilst I realise that many infant school kids have painting competitions to be judged, I wonder whether Chesterfield’s equivalent of fat-cat bankers taking bonuses whilst plunging the country in huge, huge amounts of debt is entirely appropriate.

Leading by example? Not a bit of it. Following the example of those arrogant bastards that caused the biggest recession since WW2 – Yes!

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