Stop the Nonsense

Over legislated, bullied and plain lied to, all charges that can be levelled at the shambles that was elected in 1997, known as New Labour.  In just nine years, Tony Blairs' governments introduced over 3,000 new laws, a rate of over one a day.  This lies in contrast to the 500 new laws enacted by the Tories in the nine years prior to the New Labour experiment.  Some of the new laws, originally printed in the Independent newspaper:

"It is now illegal to sell grey squirrels, impersonate a traffic warden or offer air Traffic Control services without a licence. Creating a nuclear explosion was outlawed in 1998.

This will hopefully be a new weekly thread, dedicated the self serving buffoons that festoon our local councils.  I can't for see any shortage of material to report on can you? 

First up is this little gem from Bristol.  As we are all painfully aware, these are tough times, and prudence should be a watchword for over free spending Little Napoleons down city hall.  But heaven forbid we should scrimp on the important things.  It is against this back drop that our story unfolds, as a black Lib Dem councillor has had to apologise to an Asian colleague for referring to her as a coconut, a smear insinuating that this person was black on the outside, white on the inside ( a rubbish insult, Bounty or Oreo would have cut closer to the bone).  What provoked our Afro Caribbean friend to use such a derogatory term?  The Asian councillor had suggested it may be imprudent, given the beleaguered state of the economy, to go ahead with a proposal to spend £750,000 on a scheme to educate the denizens of Bristol about the horrors of the slave trade.  I kid you not. 

Please feel free to leave any other "Clueless Council and Councillors" stories in the comments section, or even better, join and post your own.  We cannot Stop the Nonsense alone.