If the two hours spent at the school had been frustrating, it was nothing compared to the stone wall of bureaucratic obfuscation and determined obstruction he faced at the Social Services Department in the West Garside Council offices.
Despite endlessly complaining about ‘savage cuts’ to their budget, the council still managing to find several million pounds to upgrade and extend their offices and employ large numbers of jobsworths in meaningless positions, whilst closing care homes for the elderly, 9 libraries, reducing bus routes and frequencies of service and awarding a 25 year PFI contract to a highways contractor who immediately took a chain saw to hundreds of perfectly healthy trees in order to sell off the wood and save themselves the costs of maintaining those trees.
The council
