Or: how Shropshire Council managed to bankrupt public confidence before it quite finished bankrupting itself There is a point in every public scandal where the official language collapses under the sheer weight of its own dishonesty. We are well past that point in Shropshire. The question is no longer whether councils are under pressure. TheyContinue reading “WHY?”
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When the Money Ran Out: A Tale of Two Councils (and One Missing Opposition)
There are only two honest ways to respond to a financial crisis. You either take less yourself — or you become very clever indeed. Shropshire Council has tried both. Just not at the same time. 2011: When Councillors Went First At a full meeting of Shropshire Council in January 2011, during the early austerity period,Continue reading “When the Money Ran Out: A Tale of Two Councils (and One Missing Opposition)”
The Roundabout That Wasn’t Round
How Shrewsbury Reinvented the Wheel and Drove It Into a Wall Welcome to Shrewsbury, where we took a perfectly ordinary road junction, spent £4 million making it worse, and called it progress. Behold the Station Gyratory — a dazzling feat of civil regression so baffling, it could only have come from the bowels of aContinue reading “The Roundabout That Wasn’t Round”