'Vote Green, make history,' says Zack Polanski as he seeks major gains in London local elections
The Green Party leader said he was aiming to break Labour’s ‘stronghold’ grip on the capital
Zack Polanski urged Londoners to “vote Green, make history” as he sought to radically redraw London’s political map...
“People in London are really struggling and they need to know that they have councillors who are out there batting for them every single day, protecting local services, making sure we're investing in the community, that we have council homes, homes that people can actually afford to live in in London.”
Sounds like another terminological inexactitude from Zack. By "batting for them every single day" he probably means every day apart from Saturdays, Sundays and bank holidays. In cases where the "batting" requires an innings from specific council staff members, we have to add annual leave, maternity leave, paternity leave, compassionate leave, lunch breaks, coffee breaks and sickies.
Then we have training courses, established procedures, processes, legal issues, risk assessments, budgetary constraints, consultations, duty of care, social issues, environmental issues, and the cycle of reorganisations.
Plus the debilitating effect of tedium.
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“People in London are really struggling and they need to know that they have councillors who are out there batting for them every single day" unless they are Jews of course in which case we'll be battering them, he forgot to add.
Council Customer Service Helpline:
Certainly Sir, we are here to help...
I'll just need to take a few details...
How long to resolve your problem?...
It will be about a month... to complete all the forms...
And then there's a bit of a backlog....
Not so far from from the truth I suspect. My late father applied for housing benefit from the local Labour Council a couple of decades ago. When he phoned up after 3 months to ask about progress they said they had lost the paperwork... It took 9 months for them to process his claim.
dearieme - that's a good point, he must have forgotten the exceptions. It's probably a long but secret list.
DJ -
Council Customer Service Helpline:
Oh hang on someone seems to have...
Oh they gave the AI system a funny voice...
No just give your details when it beeps...
No that wasn't the beeping beep...
How can it take 9 months to process a claim without being ashamed of themselves? I bet they weren't though.
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