What would you fix: 500 potholes or a private road for council use only?
You have £35,000 to spend.
Do you:
a) Fix 500 potholes, or
b) Spend it on resurfacing a short one-way road that is blocked off from the public by a barrier and is only accessible for council use (to reach the parking spaces for councillors and senior officers and to make deliveries)?
If (b), congratulations. You have what it takes to be a Hull councillor. (Though even then you may well not have what it takes to be the writer of the best headline on a political leaflet in Hull.)
If you failed that test, try this one instead.
You have £8,000 to spend.
Do you:
a) Fix 115 potholes, or
b) Spend it on two new wooden cabinets to hold the council’s silverware?
If (b), congratulations. On the second time of asking it turns out you have what it takes to be a Hull councillor.
(And yes, there are an awful lot of potholes on Hull’s roads.)
I'm out of date – thought Hull was LD controlled. Roll on the first Thursday in May then!
hmm your 2y ear old pothole stories not end of it for stroud green rd, since the leak has merely moved to the Ennis rd junction (harringey side – so may be Islington did fix it!)