Danllan
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- Location
- Sir Gar / Carms
I ask because I've just received a mail from a friend who, being rather p!ssed off with the state of the roads here, has been pushing the County Council to actually do something about it. Said friend has a manufacturing business employing about forty people, so he pays his fair portion of tax and helps others to pay theirs too. He has got nowhere...
We have a facility on the County Council website which allows for notification of a pothole (note the singular), The council then send out a 'team' to fix it - and they do this fairly quickly. But the'ill only fix a single pothole as registered via the website. The twenty others surrounding it will be ignored every time...
If you notify them of eight potholes, individually, eight will be filled, if you tell them of twelve, they will fill twelve. There is no way they can be made to fill multiple potholes on the basis of one notification. This is truly f**king ridiculous.
My friend has being trying to have a chat with the Chief Executive of Carmarthenshire County Council, he is a determined fellow, but this has so far proven unsuccessful even after nearly six months of trying. And yet, he has been able to meet his MP, AM, the former FM, and he even met the UK's PM last year, although that was not about the roads.
He is one step away from taking out double-page ads in the local press to embarrass the Chief Executive into seeing him, if she dares...
The UK PM receives £167k each year (that includes his MP salary); the First Minister of Wales receives £153k each year; the Chief Executive of Carmarthenshire County Council now receives £154k each year - a few years ago, it was actually even more than the UK PM was then getting...
I have no problem with the free market seeing someone get what they can; but this isn't the free market, there is no risk in these job, it all comes form our taxes; something is very wrong with the amounts these people are paid, either the PM and FM should be getting significantly more, or the Chief Executive should be getting far, far less.
We have a facility on the County Council website which allows for notification of a pothole (note the singular), The council then send out a 'team' to fix it - and they do this fairly quickly. But the'ill only fix a single pothole as registered via the website. The twenty others surrounding it will be ignored every time...
If you notify them of eight potholes, individually, eight will be filled, if you tell them of twelve, they will fill twelve. There is no way they can be made to fill multiple potholes on the basis of one notification. This is truly f**king ridiculous.
My friend has being trying to have a chat with the Chief Executive of Carmarthenshire County Council, he is a determined fellow, but this has so far proven unsuccessful even after nearly six months of trying. And yet, he has been able to meet his MP, AM, the former FM, and he even met the UK's PM last year, although that was not about the roads.
He is one step away from taking out double-page ads in the local press to embarrass the Chief Executive into seeing him, if she dares...
The UK PM receives £167k each year (that includes his MP salary); the First Minister of Wales receives £153k each year; the Chief Executive of Carmarthenshire County Council now receives £154k each year - a few years ago, it was actually even more than the UK PM was then getting...
I have no problem with the free market seeing someone get what they can; but this isn't the free market, there is no risk in these job, it all comes form our taxes; something is very wrong with the amounts these people are paid, either the PM and FM should be getting significantly more, or the Chief Executive should be getting far, far less.