On first glance I thought that the story was about how Miami Vice stars Crooked and Tubby, had really let themselves go, however it was just another example of how the local Tories refuse to leave the 80's and accept that Thatcher's dead, and pastel shades look hilarious on fat blokes.
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| When's it due Porky? |
The idea is to start a "Wall of Fame" celebrating the vacuous world of celebrity that they aspire to, on the surface this is not a major expense, however they have already had a meeting with David Courtney (the 70s has been, not the gangster), who appears to own the words "of Fame", and charges exorbitantly for the privilege of anyone else using them. Sources suggest that the fee to designate a blank wall in Shoreham as a "Wall of Fame" would cost around £20k a year, just for the licence to use the name. They must have forgotten to tell us that part of the deal, after all, what's £20k a year these days, the cost of a nurse, but that would be a waste considering that the Tories have already decided to sell off our hospital, and one of these idiots is now living in one of the horrendous box houses built on the hospital site, which was a former workhouse, something that we could well be needing soon if they keep up idiotic spending ideas like this.
Just how many people will be coming to Shoreham to see a couple of names on a wall, maybe a few in the beginning, and it will give the local Councillors an opportunity to cut another ribbon (which are apparently only available in blue), but it is a complete waste of public money. People are having to rely on food banks, unemployment is returning to the levels of the Thatcher era, and homelessness is on the rise, but at least we'll have some names written on a wall, names that will be vetted by the local Tories before anyone else gets a "free vote", just like the footbridge, yes the footbridge, not the ferry bridge or any other stupid name, the bloody footbridge.
Just to show that I'm willing to take part and get my money's worth, I'd like to nominate Joe Orton, who, according to his diaries (iirc), in the weeks prior to his death, enjoyed visiting Shoreham in order to indulge in a bit of recreational activity in the local cottages.
I just hope that they don't choose to honour our local MP with a star, the cost of cleaning the graffiti from it will cause the costs to spiral out of control.
Don't believe their lies, the idea seems quite alright on the surface, but do we really want to be giving a big pile of our public money to the man responsible for some of the 1970s most heinous crimes against music in exchange for using a couple of words, I reckon I can think of a couple of words for this idea, and they're free..........
The second one's "off"
ATAB
K
