Local councillors

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careful now

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naturalesque

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I used to work in that building Alex Salmond is standing outside of. This is a much better photo for Highland Council:

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local councillors are the urban street gangs of the over-40s

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This guy (now an SNP councillor) was the local mechanic in the village where I grew up. I haven't seen him for ~10 years, whenever we were playing football he used to run over and blooter the ball into someone's garden/through someone's window. Seeing his picture now fills me with profound sadness.

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Local SNP councillor Grant Laing said yesterday that he was shocked to hear what had happened.

“He was a really decent guy with a good sense of humour,” he declared.

“He liked to keep himself to himself but he would pass the time of day with anyone who spoke to him.

“He was always very active and he was passionate about gliding.

“He even offered to take me with him sometime but I never took him up on it.”

“I feel very sorry for his family.

“Spittalfield is such a small place so when something like this happens it affects everyone.”

Another excellent cartoon from our site artist Codhead. This one is of Labour Party Counillor Broadbent who has taken almost £800 a year from North Yorkshire Council and Scarborough Borough Council for broadband which we believe costs him less than £300 a year, giving him a £500 per year profit.

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powerful liberal images

brilliant thread btw

Check out the sex-face on this Shadow Chancellor

ahahahaha

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these people burn a lot of shoe "leather"

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buy a drink you cheap gets

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Labour ‘Ducking Issue’ of Potholes

Local campaigner Chr1s Tw3lls joined K31th Orr3ll, Liberal Democrat Councillor for Huntington and New Earswick, to float toy ducks in a pothole in Hambleton Way, Huntington to highlight the state of the city's crumbling roads.

they really need to work on the camouflage for their camper van

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You think you've got pothole worries? Well check out this bad boy.

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Coun Barnett, who represents Hangleton and Knoll, was approached for a comment on the issue yesterday but declined.

The complaint relates to views she expressed to The Argus in August after place mats featuring golliwogs were found on sale in Bert’s Homestore in Brighton. At the time Coun Barnett argued that the dolls were not racist and branded the complaints against the store “political correctness gone too far”.

When asked why the shop should continue to sell the mats, she said: “They’re nostalgic, not racist. When I was young I remember saving up for a badge showing a golliwog playing a banjo.

“My children had golliwogs and they preferred them to teddy bears. It’s because they’ve got happy, smiling little faces.”

In 2011 Coun Barnett was found guilty of bringing the office into disrepute after handing out maps to travellers to try to get them to leave her ward.

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A councillor was prosecuted over unpaid council tax after officials refused to settle the matter out of court.

Patrick Warner, who represents Sovereign ward on Eastbourne Borough Council, claims the local authority he serves is using summons as a way to raise money.

He missed payments on his rates after losing his job last year.

Coun Warner told The Argus: “I’m not a silver spoon Tory.

“I have worked hard all my life from when I grew up on a council estate and never tried to shirk my responsibility.

“Those at the top obviously have enough during difficult times and those at the bottom can access council tax benefit.

“But it’s the people in the middle who work hard every day that are being treated somewhat unfairly.”

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"you fat bastard!"

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Councillor Jodie Jones is a 23-year-old beauty
BY NEWS TODAY · AUGUST 30, 2011

SHE’S a far cry from the stereotypical stuffy old politician, but councillor Jodie Jones is causing a stir at her local town hall – and is already being dubbed ‘Britain’s sexiest councillor.’

The Tory politician – who gave up her social life to pursue a career in politics – certainly looks like she would be more at home on the nation’s catwalks than council chambers.

Stunning Oxbridge graduate Jodie was elected as the youngest councillor on Cannock Chase District Council earlier this year making her a surprising addition to the Staffordshire authority.

A far cry from the often dour-looking men and women sitting on Britain’s council’s,the glamorous 23-year-old has sure been turning heads at the council chambers.

While the down-to-earth beauty is representing the voice of Britain’s youth generation, she freely admits that she enjoys a night out on the town with her friends.

And judging by her Facebook profile, she’s certainly not shy – as a range of pictures show her in clinches with female friends, partying in a bikini and sitting in the street holding two bottles of booze.

But her lifestyle as a young girl has not been to the taste of all of her colleagues.

Councillor for Heath Hayes and Wimblebury, Diane Todd, said: “These pictures do not show the behaviour she should be displaying.

“That’s not the behaviour I expect of a councillor, she needs to make sure that she isn’t seen sat swigging from bottles like this.”

Fellow councillor, Christine Mitchell, warned Jodie she need to make sure her normal lifestyle doesn’t get her in trouble.

“We all know what young people do,” she said. “I’m sure if you go out on a Saturday you’ll find the older councillors inebriated as well, but she has signed up to a code of conduct.

“She must make sure that she doesn’t do anything or say anything that might bring the council into disrepute.”

But pretty Jodie says the transition from politics student to politician has taken a toll on her personal life, sacrificing love and friendships along the way.

Tories don't deserve love or friendship

Don't worry, Jodie has since found love again:

http://politicalscrapbook.net/2013/11/aidan-nazi-stag-burley-proposed-to-girlfriend-on-human-rights-junket/

The indulgent smile on my wizened features collapsed on reading the phrase "The Tory politician"...

I still managed to feel slightly sorry for her, considering how bizarrely unrestrained that article is in its leching.

that piece is the worst it's true

nice for her she went to that fine old institution, the University of Oxbridge

i believe she studied Econosophy

There's a Mail article that goes over pretty much exactly the same ground, but is at least embarrassed enough to affect that it's just scandalised by her 'outrageous' facebook photos rather than going all in with the explicit perving, I'm not sure which should properly be considered worse.

there's a story out there about a Lib Dem councillor who works as a lap dancer or something, i left it out as not in this thread's original remit - happy that this remit has broadened btw - and not really wanting to republish it

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photoshop?

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this thread has filled me with an incredibly deep sense of sadness

Fills me with pride at our democratically elected representatives. Best local councillors in the world.

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If there's anyone on ilx who works in publishing, a coffee table book of local councillor photographs needs to happen.

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out of context some of these look like part of a weird anti-glamour fashion shoot

is this hula-hooping woman on the left a minor celebrity?

It may be Clyde 1 dj Gina McKie

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the very poor pruning technique up there is going to lead to some dreadful die back :'-(

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^^^ is this ted from Hi De Hi?

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aw bless they let one of the young people dress up as a councillor

Lots of experience but I think this Labour XI lacks mobility, energy and imagination.

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A local councillor question:

If someone were to be on a Parish Council and it was proposed that, say, the field next to their house should be replaced by a factory or a housing estate ... would the councillor be allowed to have an opinion on this or would this be considered a "conflict of interest"?

They have to declare a conflict of interest and then sit out the decision that their friends make for them

But would that count as a "conflict of interest"?

I'd much rather someone "local" (by which I mean directly affected) be arguing the case for the local area and I'm guessing that's why most people get involved in local politics.

For some reason, I draw a distinction between the above example and ... I dunno ... if the councillor owned the field and was going to make a fortune if it was built on (though perhaps they are just on a spectrum).

Almost any kind of commercial building in the vicinity of a house is going to have some kind of impact on property value. Strictly I don't know how conflict of interest rules work at Parish level, or whether parish councils have jurisdiction over most planning decisions, but the thin veneer of local democracy has to at least maintain the illusion that elected officials must place the broader interests of the people who elected them over personal prejudice or gain - however unlikely that is in practice

Beautiful thread.

Yeah. I'd not found it until this evening.

Same. This is great. And very close to home tbh

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I just picture them all crouching in the street, looking up at the press, and going, "You see? You see this shit RIGHT HERE?"

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Nick with his deputy for the coming year, Dick Sweatman

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dick... sweatman?

wasn't expecting Batley festival to have such a strong Leigh Bowery influence

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ha that picture made me homesick

it's somehow very glasgow-specific innit

yes, even if i didn't know the particular part of glasgow it is (it's sandyhills) i would know it was glasgow

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When will the horror end.

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local councillors + local sports team mascots are always a good combination

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lad in the wolf outfit looks cold

Congratulations to Cllr Chris Wells and UKIP Thanet. Great example of the hard work UKIP Cllrs do for their communities. pic.twitter.com/TvwDq21o6d

— UKIP (@UKIP) May 4, 2017

immaculate

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possible Satanist y/n?

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2 and a half inches

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DUDE YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO POINT

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LIKE THIS, RIGHT?

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a timeless idea is a timeless idea, obv

possible Satanist y/n?

not even a shadow of a doubt

disappointingly small picture but tremendous form

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the road to hell is covered in bloody potholes

took me a minute to notice the peen there

obv it should be pointing at a pothole

Oh shit I missed that! It's errr... not particularly impressive for such an ungodly beast?

ikr?

It'll not have the Christians quaking in their boots, it'll have them pointing and laughing at his lack of underpants

6.66, the member of the beast

dong is oddly on-topic for this thread given that a popular way to get the council to fill in potholes is apparently to spraypaint a dick around it so they feel obligated to cover it up

first picture of a local councillor pointing at a spray-painted shlong wins a prize

best i can do

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bonus point for the headline but c'mon we need a dude in a cheap suit pointing

look i'm trying here but i suspect even the thirstiest councillor is going to think twice about squatting next to grafitti genitals

Look at his face, just look at his face...

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Excellent work with the hands too.

found a picture of a local councillor stood next to some graffiti and a couple of dicks, does this count?

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all this talk of roadworks has reminded me that a couple of years ago, esteemed glasgow-based organ the evening times started a long-running campaign to name and shame potholes in and around the city, leading to endless stories featuring images like this, often as page leads:

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great days to be an evening times reader

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i see a darkness

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Barry is his name and the boy's comin' straight outta Compton

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If you think you can out-rhyme me, yeah boy I bet
Cause I ain't met a motherfucker who can do that yet

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coun Martyn Bolt showing his look of nimby disapproval to motherfucking housing developer perpetrators.

there's a lad who's been in a couple of gritty Play for Todays

I suppose a big part of being a local councillor is maintaining your serious/reproachful look, can't have a "Local A+E to be closed" headline and then a pic of councillor doing Roger Moore raised eyebrow spoof!

Tory councillors maybe do a thumbs-up cheesy grin tho

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(From upthread) This is surely not a local councillor but in fact Saturday Kitchen heartthrob (and favourite of my mother - supplanting John Nettles in her affections), James Martin?

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Why he is squatting by a pothole in Glasgow with a rolled up Evening Times in his hand, I have no idea.

sourcing fresh local shellfish

If it isn't then that local councillor looks even more like James Martin than dog latin looks like Jamie Oliver.

his look of nimby disapproval

Even if it wasn't an acronym, nimby would still be the perfect adjective for that fella.

Tom D, my mother is also a fan of James Martin.

my ex loves him madly

I replaced the characters in Guess Who? with 24 Norfolk County Council Conservative councillors pic.twitter.com/LcrWbvf6nf

— Sarah Dempster (@Dempster2000) July 4, 2017

"Are they a bastard?" *flicks down all 24 cards*

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Ha-cha-cha-chaaaa

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scandalous over-staffing at Watford council

This thread never fails to deliver.

the blurriness and weird framing of the second one there is taking it close to 'cursed images' territory imo

yes definitely, gives it an "any time in the last 40 years" quality

I think it was shot recently and the guy on the right is the ghostly apparition of a former councillor - the pothole in question having been there since 1953.

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don't want to get too far into phrenology but these guys have loyalist proddy written all over their faces

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here's one I made earlier.

http://i4.glasgowlive.co.uk/incoming/article12719999.ece/ALTERNATES/s810/DSC_5594JPG.jpg

http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/resources/images/6576411/?type=responsive-gallery-fullscreen

paging dmac: what's up with yerman councillor brian murphy then, he seems... agitated

Sharia Law is operating in Ireland and most of the political class either do not know or do not care. It is a subversion of our legal system

— Cllr Brian Murphy (@brianmurphycllr) September 5, 2017

The Left hate their culture, they hate Western civilization, they hate Christianity, they want to destroy social order, and unleash anarchy.

— Cllr Brian Murphy (@brianmurphycllr) August 30, 2017

The criminal justice system in Ireland is too lenient. We are far too soft on crime, our Judges sometimes act like apologists for criminals

— Cllr Brian Murphy (@brianmurphycllr) August 30, 2017

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/420701326419296256/JeMqymeF_400x400.jpeg

Hmmm

I'll look into it.

Likely this is a career move, we tend to spot what's coming down the line from the yanks or across the water and the enterprising local politician, dressmaker, restauranteur, decorator and hairdresser will make it their business to be ahead of this important curve of cultural impetus

please do report back, this seems like an avenue of investigation worthy of yr time

finds current legal system too lenient but also dislikes sharia law. the goldilocks of jurisprudence.

http://www.parikiaki.com/wp-content/uploads/ChristinaLeaseholder-JMF-006.jpg
Councillor Alan Strickland's smiling face of gentrification pic would make a good Xmas card.

This is the guy who got his arse kicked by Aditya Chakrabortty on the Sunday Politics yesterday?

... which you wouldn't have seen if you don't live in London.

Yes I saw it on twitter this morning, he is a real piece of work!

http://yourcardiff.mediawales-1.titaninternet.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/ramesh-patel-pothole.jpg

https://lynnefea.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/kenwood-road-pot-hole-09.jpg?w=584

http://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/resources/images/3092138.jpg?display=1&htype=226&type=responsive-gallery

http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/resources/images/5874517/

has Sittingbourne UKIP councillor Mike Baldock appeared on this thread yet

https://68.media.tumblr.com/5cc87a3933a9510d08e6dd911d902705/tumblr_nesftdjsbG1qao1lqo1_500.jpg

http://media.kentonline.co.uk/filerepository/750x0/151030~0,0,2D6,1E5,258,1B8,0~4074555.jpg

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/_assets/SITT-Mike-Baldock-IND.jpg

I know Ian Paisley jr. is an MP and so not eligible for this thread, but presumably some of those people are local councillors

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DagzT2wXUAAEX0u.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DagzT24WsAA6uaS.jpg

"Just imagine you're kicking a Catholic, big smiles now..."

some of glasgow's fine councillors:

Alexander Belic, SNP. Southside Central.

https://snpforglasgow.scot/media/1248/southside-central.jpg

Eva Bolander. SNP. Lord Provost of Glasgow. Anderston/City/Yorkhill. Incidentally, despite the bagpipe playing, is from Sweden

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DG9ezodXcAAaEmT.jpg

Christy Meanrs. Scottish Green Party. Anderston/City/Yorkhill.

https://christymearns.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/img_9997-edit.jpg?w=640

Last but not least: Franny Scally. SNP. Marshall

http://c8.alamy.com/comp/J3J7DR/maryhill-councillor-franny-scally-celebrates-with-snp-activists-after-J3J7DR.jpg

maryhill damn you autocorrect

https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/kirkleeslibdems/pages/219/attachments/original/1519917089/JL_ACP_Car_Park_2_0218.jpg?1519917089
Kirklees Council plans for an end to FREE parking in Cleckheaton? Cllr John Lawson is leading the fight back .... and he's all out of gum.

https://i.imgur.com/pVL7WvV.png

https://i2-prod.stokesentinel.co.uk/incoming/article1442709.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/potholes-golf.jpg

these last two are very good

This is oddly unsettling:

https://s15.postimg.cc/5jcbfegpn/7695_DFE8-5_D9_D-4_E96-9853-6_F6_F3_F5_D77_F3.jpg

Hutts were a large slug-like sentient species who were native to the planet Nal Hutta. They were well known as galactic gangsters whose Grand Hutt Council controlled the Hutt Clan crime syndicate. One famous Hutt was the crime lord Jabba, who ruled a massive criminal empire from his palace on Tatooine.

bit unfair to the hutts tbh

"right, when I find out which one of you lot has eaten Eric Pickles there is going to be double detentions!"

It's a ridiculous thing to say in the first place ... but his explanation for it? Wow.https://t.co/FY2ymD8qJC

— The National (@ScotNational) June 27, 2018

that's weird he doesn't look like a dick

https://i2-prod.dailyrecord.co.uk/incoming/article11799554.ece/ALTERNATES/s810/Screen-Shot-2018-01-04-at-223652.png

I've heard he's a bit of a Nazi!

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/embarrassing-online-incident-prompts-port-alberni-b-c-to-develop-social-media-policy-1.4746623

With @theresa_may reporting her first potholes in Alexandra Road in Belmont ward in #Maidenhead under the new 24 hour working repair scheme from @RBWM. Reference number HIG013365 pic.twitter.com/sY6kYoA4zd

— Simon Dudley (@MrSimonDudley) September 7, 2019

Going back to her roots.

Reached her natural level - a couple of inches above a pothole in a road.

you can tell it's a tory constituency, call them bloody potholes - you couldn't even hide summat in them!

^^ For once, pointing it out was helpful, not obvious.

there is a pothole around the corner from my house where someone has put a scruffy old brown shoe in it and it doesn't fill it. Although I'm not sure if they were trying to use the shoe as a tarmac alternative but it is a verified pothole!

https://lynnefea.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/kenwood-road-pot-hole-09.jpg?w=584

https://i.imgur.com/UPIoovx.jpg?1

ahaha

well done

not a councillor but

https://twitter.com/mrpotholeuk?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_banners/1667340889/1441025860/1500x500

we regret to inform you that Mr Pothole is racist

thing i could've took a stab at that one before i googled him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JglIsU4lESs

This would've been a thousand times better with the deckchairs out and soundtracked by saer

ohmygod he's got his badge on his hi viz

lol, what purpose is the spirit level for ? You aren't fitting a kitchen - no need for a bubble you dickhead!

Mr. Poth Le

There’s a cool pothole down my street if any councillors are looking for a career-defining photo op x

— Neville (@catherinebuca) October 15, 2019

Heilsowen

https://dudley-libdems.org.uk/en/image/63T6BH/philip-tibbetts-by-welcome-to-halesowen-sign.png

Paid st Mirren 12.50 to watch a very shitty game they played against Celtic earlier.

As is fairly normal at smaller spfl grounds there was an SNP advertising board along the side of the field. less commonly - in my experience - there was a board that read Councillor Eddie Devine - in labour colours.

finding this picture of Councillor Eddie Devine almost made paying 12.50 and watching the shitty game worthwhile:

https://i2-prod.dailyrecord.co.uk/incoming/article18648124.ece/ALTERNATES/s810/0_EddieDevineJPG.jpg

Well lagged

his jacket and stiffly upright posture reminds me of the 3000w black russell hobbs rapid boil honeycomb texture kettle I bought off ebay recently

I presume he is pointing at uncut hedges there? Labour councillors will get involved with all sorts of corrupt housing schemes that line their own pockets and slash the fuck out of local maintenance budgets with a very heavy heart. Lol good work if you can get it.

About 18 months ago a local councillor tried to taxi me (as a Labour party member) to a meeting to vote for some housing project on a local greenfield site. God knows why I didn't tell him to fuck himself as a first response, but i politely did as a second. Then the next day someone tried to burn his house down and I presumed it was probably some racist hate-crime. But the more I learn about him, the more I presume he has just made a lot of enemies - even in the Asian community and is basically a deeply corrupt motherfucker!

lol he knew that I was a Corbyn entryist so to appeal me he told me the two most honourable people he had ever met in the PLP was Ken Livingstone and Gordon Brown!

xps. it's an SNP-run council so the bold Eddie is giving it tight to the nasty nats for their negligent hedge management

hedge-crime>>>potholes>>>dog-shit>>>someone writing swearwords or hip-hop influenced graffiti on Branson owned data cabinets on middle class housing estates.

Eddie giving me strong Big Daddy vibes, perhaps he's angry about the hedges because they remind him of giant haystacks.

in which case cutting them down to size should be easy, easy, easy

https://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/resources/images/12467825.jpg?display=1&htype=0&type=responsive-gallery

Sir Ed Davey, Lib Dem leader takes a look at the planning application with Cllr Gavin Grant Photo Trevor Porter

You can say what you like about @Keir_Starmer. The man can point. 👇 https://t.co/lZOqA3LdCM

— Crispian Wheldon #Unite #Momentum #P&J #DiEM25 (@CrispianWheldon) April 20, 2021

Israel pointing out rocket damage after they've levelled some apartment blocks pic.twitter.com/vdjZ3IBnd0

— Gavin Mitchell (@gavinmit) May 12, 2021

The progressive alliance in action. pic.twitter.com/4FG18XWm6a

— Joe Kenny (@joekennynorth) December 17, 2021

https://www.sthelensstar.co.uk/resources/images/7957357.jpg?display=1&htype=0&type=responsive-gallery

https://www.sthelensstar.co.uk/news/16306752.st-helens-council-leader-blasts-appalling-lack-pothole-funding/

they couldn't find a photo of this guy pointing at a pothole so they've just put an insert of his official photo over a stock photo of a pothole (idk where that pothole is, but reverse google search indicates that its photo has also appeared alongside pothole stories in the Newcastle Chronicle, the Bristol Post and others)

the puddle of piss in't road has a depth and substance to it that PrOgResSIve All1AnCe is looking at with envy and admiration.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FNj8raFX0AAfjXs?format=jpg&name=large

It's not a local councillor pointing at a pothole. It's some business owner from Belfast stood inside what the local infrastructure dept refer to as a culvert. But it's a superlative entry to the local press doing pothole stories genre.

big week for Britain's local councillors

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FcNe2pnXwAAkYKH?format=jpg&name=medium

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FcOvk9gXkAM-qy2?format=jpg&name=large

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FcM0Yq8XoAEYJoC?format=jpg&name=large

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FcNeaGQXwAAlSoG?format=jpg&name=large

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FcODSatXkAESG50?format=jpg&name=large

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FcNioAbX0AAUBbV?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FcN44HXXgAErS79?format=jpg&name=medium

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FcO72sjWAAMKJKb?format=jpg&name=large

beautiful

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FcOSO6YXEAEBR9q?format=jpg&name=medium

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FcOSR41WYAIkiny?format=jpg&name=large

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FcOSTODWQAEQQIf?format=jpg&name=medium

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FcOSWNqX0AMEzhD?format=jpg&name=medium

From potholes to petals.

it's noticeable that several of them have no idea what to do with their arms when they're being photographed and there isn't a nearby pothole for them to point at

Inside every fat local councillor there's a tiny Prime Minister trying to get out.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/politics/2023/03/31/TELEMMGLPICT000330732932_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqpVlberWd9EgFPZtcLiMQf0Rf_Wk3V23H2268P_XkPxc.jpeg?imwidth=960

lol the noob doesn't even know how to point

doesn't seem the best place for a game of pitch and toss

plenty tossers there tho

Ukrainian style.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/world-news/2023/06/01/TELEMMGLPICT000337857934_16856225151890_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqLeUJvOJqnV613e1NxllMSV5NUcTKNHKqy85KLqtvPLE.jpeg?imwidth=480

https://i0.wp.com/skwawkbox.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/sam-lucy-pothole1.jpg?resize=2000%2C1200&ssl=1

young trendy independent councillors on the pothole run. They could have done a more proper repair with a sack of readymade cold lay tarmac, but didn't want to get their threads dirty!

Pretty sure filling it with cat litter isn't going to work.

turning a pothole into a gravelly bump that cats will try to shit in is a poor fix