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nightbird
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flaming pie
Alagaësía
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Posted - 05/04/2007 : 09:25:04
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| Looks like they have done some good, as Adam T says in the article - but the cost is far too high - they are just taking the P. |
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Captain Hawkeye
Barsoom
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 06/05/2007 : 11:07:04
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From The Sunday Telegraph
Online : 05/05/2007
http://tinyurl.com/2lteyp
But hats off to the Brighton Argus, which recently focused on the accounts of just one. The South East England Development Agency (Seeda), with a staff of 300 costing £20 million a year, presides over the affairs of a vast, amorphous tract of England, from Banbury to Dover, and Milton Keynes to Portsmouth.
Commenting on his newspaper's devastating exposé, its columnist Adam Trimingham asked how any public bodies could justify splashing out £115,000 on an awards ceremony in Brighton "promoting green business"? Or £1,600 on a lunch at Osborne House in the Isle of Wight, attended by just 10 guests and four Seeda officials?
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nightbird
Calaspia
603 Posts |
 Posted - 06/05/2007 : 18:53:11
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Unelected and unaccountable, it is a grotesque waste of cash and should be scrapped.
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Daveb
Discworld
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Posted - 06/05/2007 : 19:12:01
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Agreed.
Greed being the appropriate word. |
We're all doomed!
Head for the hills before they start heading for you! |
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Captain Hawkeye
Barsoom
United Kingdom
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Control Panel
Discworld
1166 Posts |
Posted - 30/05/2007 : 20:45:43
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"I'm shockingly stupid over local affairs," said the young man languidly. "I can't even remember the difference between a Parish Council and a Local Government Board. Perhaps there is no difference, or perhaps those aren't the right names. I only go into the country to see my friends and to enjoy the scenery. It is very remiss of me. Italy and London are the only places where I don't feel to exist on sufferance."
So says Cecil Vyse in E M Forster's A Room With a View. He would be even more bamboozled nowadays, a hundred years on.
Of course, Lucy breaks off the engagement. But this was not owing to his lack of knowledge about local government. Equally, a deep knowledge of local government is hardly to be an attractive quality in anybody.
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Captain Hawkeye
Barsoom
United Kingdom
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
1234 Posts |
Posted - 15/07/2007 : 16:51:58
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If Seeda does take over from Seera, then we are certainly all doomed.
Sue John remains on Seeda for another three years, and so in that time she can, without any fear of the electorate, push through all manner of hideous schemes in devlish revenge for the drubbing she took in South Portslade.
A dual carriageway along Broundary Road to the Harbour would be just the least of it... A couple of branches of Greggs would seem like paradise beside her plans! |
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Control Panel
Discworld
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Posted - 19/07/2007 : 11:58:35
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| Seera has gone and that might seem good news, but could it give even more power to the unelected Seeda? |
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Seeda empire...
Posted - 15/07/2007 : 14:58:50