Auf wiedersehen Pets
Hardly have they put their fat arses back on their seats than Cavan County Councillors are planning to screw their electorate one more time. I read in the latest edition of the Cavan Echo that some of that brave band of trail-blazers are planning a trip to visit a land-fill facility in Germany. Now there is no need for any councillor to go; at the end of the day decisions will be taken by members of the unelected and unaccountable county council executive and the councillors can just sign off on them. Indeed the whole thing is a really cynical sop by the county council executive towards the elected members (who they view as merely troublesome but impotent irritants). “Want a foreign holiday – (minus the missus)? Jump aboard ladsw, but don’t give us any grief in the future.
Why can’t members of council staff go on their own? Are they afraid? It’s supposed to be a research trip, so why don’t they send one of their research officers? – one in particular is “solche suesse knabe” but how could he stay away from daddy? We all know that Cavan County Council’s employees include so many fluent German speakers. I’m not necessarily being facetious here, for if they were going to France they could bring with them the staff member who has a degree in French yet who for many years worked in the Motor Tax department – but who of course was partially sighted and didn’t have a parent serving on a council.
