tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043332942481206469.post7607329581374414140..comments2024-03-04T15:23:07.880+00:00Comments on Northern Voices: Beggar's Opera* Or Comic Opera?Blanco Posnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11288856212231100137noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043332942481206469.post-80380635928648821222017-03-31T08:04:46.423+01:002017-03-31T08:04:46.423+01:00All for cleaning up Rochdale!
Can we start with c...All for cleaning up Rochdale!<br /><br />Can we start with cleaning up local politics. It'll be a filthy job but we can wear protective suits, long handled brushes and industrial qualities of bleach ?<br /><br />We can also use a local(ish) ready-made well paid publicly funded labour force of 60 councillors to litter pick every weekend.<br /><br />Some of them it's true may require additional motivation training but the war on Fly-tippers can be won. Lets hope this 'community payback' scheme can be extended to our dedicated 'Alpha-Councillors' cleaning up the mouldering Asbestos site at Turner Brothers - I'm sure we can provide them with the necessary protective equipment and the best quality Health & Safety monitoring - unlike the protection deployed to meet local residents legitimate concerns over the past four decades or more. Though we might have to give them copies of an A-Z Street Map since so many of them appear to have forgotten it even exists ?<br /><br />Looking forward immensely to live proceedings in the Council Chamber being broadcast down the web to the local populace. With judicious use of a clever marketing company the show could be successfully promoted as a pre-watershed comedy. <br /><br />Councillors could raise much needed revenue by subtle use of product placement. Munch sandwiches at key point in proceeding whilst wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the Buffet Company's brand name on. Perhaps a few subtle logos from Kingsway Business Park could be hung from the rafters along with '...and here's a word from our sponsors'...segments every fifteen minutes or so to promote all those successful private providers of public services we must thank previous generations of councillors for endorsing and bailing out with our public money.<br /><br />All that would be required is a good Director - Francis Ford Coppola would have been the obvious choice. Although the Ministry of Propaganda would no doubt be able to provide a suitable alternative ?<br /><br />Subliminal happiness mantras could be played to convince the audience they are getting at least some value money and not witnessing a daylight robbery crime show.<br />whilst the end of proceedings could be marked with a rousing communal sing along of <br />'We're in the Money' and everybody's happy !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com