ON THE 3rd of February 2012, Councillors Blackburn and Coleman of Brunswick put in a ward budget request for the purchase of 1,250 biodegradable poop scoop bags for use around Brunswick ward.
For those unaware, a poop scoop bag is a thin plastic bag, large enough to fit over your hand but usually no larger. You put your hand in it, grab the dog poo, reverse the bag, tie the handles/ties on the top, and bin it.
Blackburn and Coleman paid £810 for these bags, or 64.8 pence per bag. Quite unbelievable and totally outrageous, but Sweet Shop Fred still signed it off.
I don’t know whether the Brunswick duo have dogs – I am guessing not – but I do, and I can tell you that a pack of 60 Bob Martin biodegradable poop scoop bags from Tesco costs £1.19, which works out at 2 pence per bag. You can often pick them up for less in Home Bargains or B&Ms, and there are of course other cheaper brands.
Therefore, had Blackburn or Coleman purchased these from Tesco, the cost for 1,250 would have been £24.79, and would have given them another £785.21 to spend in their ward. Similarly, Blackburn could have asked one of his minions at the Queens Park Residents Association to pop into the Lidl off Laycock Gate and purchase 1,250 of their 3 pence plastic carrier bags for £37.50.
They say the public sector always pays more for everything but this really takes the biscuit.
So why are Simon Blackburn and Gary Coleman paying, per disposable dog poo bag, over three times more than it costs to use a Danfo public toilet and over six times the cost of a Tesco bag for life? Answers on a postcard.
I think we got a bargain ! When you consider that ;
The council had to advertise for the tender of said bags,
Then a consultant had to examine the tenders for suitability,
Then a ‘green’ consultant had to make sure the bags were eco friendly,
Then a diversity officer had to make sure the bags didn’t offend anyones religion,
Then a consultant had to make sure the disabled could use them,
Then a cultural and inclusion officer had to make sure they were ‘gay’ friendly,
Then a H&S officer had to carry out a risk assesment,
Then they had to check that they were acceptable with Clare Smith, the Pleasure Beach and Merlin,
And finally the Chief Exec. had to make sure they fitted in with the towns long term vision for the future.
Hilarious but so true.
Sounds about right, especially the Claire Smith and Merlin part.
And I’ve heard there will be a delay in receiving these bags as Cross and Donnelon have been tasked with arranging delivery and they’re awaiting the consultants report on what road alterations have to be made before they can be delivered, probably by bicycle.
It’s ironic isn’t it that as people tighten their belts and start to use Aldi more than they might Marks and sparks that our council can not do likewise
64p!!! YOU MUST BE JOKING!!!!! Travels through Europe have found these readily available in most parks.
sounds about right, but don’t forget they will then have to sent back due to not being up to standard for being the wrong colour or size and nobody is to blame.
Put all the dog shit in the Town Hall Haahaaaha..:-) Save 69p a bag but costs £Squillions in X’s, second salaries, Xsperts, POLMA,,,,
What do you mean it has already replaced the hole in Talbot Square? TO LET. One is missing???
the shit is already in the town hall,its called john donellon, peter cross……….
In a society that tolerates a public service, the BBC, swindling the taxpayer and overpaying their own executives, it is small wonder that most of the rest of society has become blasé about the competence and the remuneration of the Public Servant. Because we, the general public, ,allowed excesses perhaps because the voice of the ordinary, decent Brit had been drowned out by the Pinkoe Liberal halfwits.
One has to look no further then this awful coalition government, a cabinet crammed with Cameron Cronies and supported by a power crazed group of immoral ideologues with not the slightest care of future effects of their pathetic political claims. We live in a country that was sold short by Lieber which culminated in the selling of our gold assets to protect Goldman SACKs in the most enormous case of national vandalism since Lieber gave British passports to a quarter of the worlds population. That mentality is all pervasive in a culture that has no respect of law, of neighbours, the Old or the very young.
To allow council officials to sign such poorly drafted contracts and not retaliate with Malfeasance in Public Office charges indicates how ill-educated those are who wish to become and are our leaders. Not that the greatest emperor of all time was literate, but Temujin had the savvy to surround himself with the greatest sages and bureaucrats within his world. Blackpool has to suffice with public officials who believe that we, the tax payers and voters, have to listen quietly to them at public meetings, of which there are too few.
Blackpool council are the windmills of our time. Diabolically expensive to install, impossible to maintain, and unable to account for future expenditure. i.e. When they have created the mess that Blackpool so willingly accepts, they can disappear into retire opulence at the cost to our next two or three generations. 99.9 of us would not want Wonga, but Wonga has installed itself in the Town Hall.
anyone watching the left wing multi culti shite called the olympics closing ceremony? pc propaganda at its finest!
I’m not but missus has it on in another room and I can just about hear it.
It’ll be the same old shit, a Paul McCartney and Elton John yawnfest.
lol a trevor philips/zanulabour wankfest,lol,I would love to be able to put on the Horst Wessell Lied on over the tannoys, just to fry their pc heads,lol,lol,lol,lol.
anyway the next 2-3 weeks will be a huge hangover as the cost etc comes into play and reality bites as all the bad news thats been hidden will come spewing out…lol
Watchin the wee Belfast boy in Yankyland….
It will be the councils fault when they asked for a quote.
No doubt they put the request on official headed paper and the manufacturer immediately saw an opportunity to rip off the public sector.
64p for a plastic bag for dog shit?
You are shitting me right?
I wouldn’t shit you Geezer – you’re my favourite turd!
Sweetshop signed off on it.
Enough said.
Its quite sad that the Tory sheep only have these little snippets of hope to clasp onto. How much would the cost of defending a lawsuit be for using inferior bags? I wager that within the first week some bright spark would see how flimsy the cheaper bags are and have an accident claiming for his Armani jeans,jumper and van shoes. Get real the council cannot use substandard products as we are all well aware. I hope this keeps you sheep happy for a while as there really isnt much more to moan about under this administration, how sad for you
Meanwhile, back in the real world Cardy. Any judge, even the most retarded lefty simpleton would say,
“Now, Mister Brightspark, this canine faeces that ended up besmirching your expensive clothes, where did it originate?”
“Well, Your Worship, not to put too fine a point on it, it fell out of my dog’s ring-piece.”
“Mister Brightspark, I shall ask you again, because this is crucial to my decision. Are you absolutely certain that this, for want of a better expression, ‘cack’, wasn’t the waste-product of somebody else’s dog? Hmm? You weren’t for example following, for argument’s sake, Mister Frederick de la Sweetshop about when his four-legged friend laid a cable and you decided, as a public spirited citizen to collect said runny lump of shit so as to allow the hypothetical Mister Sweetshop to ‘keep his hands clean’ as it were?”
“No, Your Worship. The jobby definitely was up my Rover’s arsehole, immediately before I put it in the less expensive bag.”
“Then I’m afraid since you got your own clothes covered in your own dog’s shit, I find Blackpool Council has no case to answer. You should have been more careful, you scruffy twat. Case dismissed. And while we’re about it I’ll have that cunt Cardy locked up for contempt of common-sense and trolling in a public place. Next case.”
Greg, I know you have experience with the legal system lets leave it at that are you still voting BNP?, Dont throw stones Greg you live in a greenhouse…Blackpool is a very small town when you have lived in it as long as we have.
Phil what you fail to realize is that the council CANNOT stop people from taking them to court unless they settle out of court.
Cardy, ever used a bag for life from any of the supermarkets? They can easily hold as much as you can carry. 6p at Tesco. The normal free shopping bags at Tesco (3p at Lidl) can hold almost as much.
This alone takes your stupid argument, chews it up, digests it and defecates it like the 10 ton pile of shit that it is.
Moving on, what you clearly fail to realise is that negotiating alternative dispute resolution is part of the pre-court process. No claimant would pursue the council without a cast iron case because the council has unlimited resources. If the council were liable in a dispute that led to clothing needing dry cleaning, they would just pay the dry cleaners bill. If they were not liable they would fight the claimant until the end of time.
But that’s hypothetical. In the absurd case you describe, they would not be liable. Just because a bag is supplied by the council doesn’t make them liable for its use. Plastic bags come with no guarantees. If your shopping bag splits when walking to your car, it’s your fault for overfilling it, not the fault of the supermarket for supplying the bag.
If someone is thick enough to fill a dog poo bag to bursting point (this would require a lot of shit) and then hold it over their heads until it splits, then they deserve everything that happens to them.
I know you are trolling but if you are hand on heart trying to say Simon Blackburn has spent three thousand percent more than he had to on super reinforced dog shit bags just in case a Brunswick junkie suddenly decides to do the community a favour and picks up everyone’s dog shit using a single bag, then proceeds to hold it up high whilst watching the seams split and the turds drop all over his clothing and then – if this was not embarrassing enough – pursues legal action against the council because he was a fucking clown, you are in cloud cuckoo land.
If this actually was the reason Blackburn bought these bags, then he should be thrown in the same padded cell you’re in.
Phil your more full of it than the dog bags you really are falling short on this one firstly you state ” the council allowing such a claim to actually get to court” they cannot do this FACT unless they settle out of court.ADR as you mention is a voluntary commitment as are all the pre court options and I know you are obliged to consider mediation etc but they are not compulsary. Further you state “Just because a bag is supplied by the council doesn’t make them liable for its use. Plastic bags come with no guarantees” I think you will find the council have a vacarious liability for the products they provide and if they are substandard they will be liable hence the purchase of the better quality bags. Anyway I will go for now and let you and your BNP racist pals carry on with the mosque issue.
No comment about the 6p bags for life Cardy? Not used one?
The council is not liable for the misuse of a dog bag it supplies. FACT as you like to say.
I am amazed that you protest at the government giving cash to foreign countries yet you are happy for your Labour mates to spend over three thousand percent more than necessary to provide free gifts to Brunswick voters.
As for the BNP comment, firstly I am not racist, secondly I have no racist pals and thirdly on the 24th April 2012 you said;
“I do vote BNP and admit to being racist…”
http://philtheone.com/2012/04/by-election-3rd-may-2012-bloomfield-ward/#comment-26529
Are you saying I am a racist, Cardy?
Cardy or “woollie pully” as like to call him is a simple tyre kicker, he claims to be someone with political views and seems to be a person who likes to argue his case but on other places I have encounterd him and even answered specificaly some questions he asked. His reply was to simply and pathetically go ” baah” He cannot accept that people such as myself you know the mugs who pay councl tax create emploment etc can be critical of local government that wastes money without a care in the world. You see Woolie pully I don’t particularly care wether they are labour/ lib dem or Tory it’s the wasting of OUR money i object to
I have never voted BNP in my life. For the record, at the last general election I voted LibDem on the basis of ‘anyone but Liebour’. I am now a member of UKIP. Perhaps, Cardy, you are confusing me with somebody else, although I am using my real name, unlike you. Feel free to google me old fruit, I have nothing to hide.
Now now children,Firstly Greg,the comedian you may claim to have nothing to hide (and I dont need to google you to find out things about you) but you have a past like so many of us and yes I do know about it.but I dont resort to calling people cunts unlike some.Dont worry I wont be putting down what I know on here Im not petty like that.
Phil,In my opinion you do have a racist trait i believe the muslim picture is highly inflamitoryand speaks volumes about you as this is a mosque issue Im sure if you put in google muslims praying pictures you would have found one your choice speaks volumnes.
Maxfan a true Tory petty name calling when he has no answers like the one and only Councillor Cox alias T.B.
I will leave you all to pat yourselves on the back,what a great scandal uncovered this will be remembered for years to come.not
I don’t call people cunts, Cardy. I only call cunts cunts.
Post whatever you think you know.
If it’s true, you can’t be sued for libel so bash on. I can’t wait.
By the way, if it’s about my criminal past, I discuss that on stage, so that’s hardly a secret really.
Your turn, Cardy. This’ll be good.
Thanks Greg youve just proved my point with the doggie bags there is always someone thinking about taking legal action.
In addition to Greg’s hilarious answer, I can’t imagine (a) anyone in Brunswick swanning around in genuine designer clothes, (b) anyone in Brunswick swanning around in genuine designer clothes with a dog that doesn’t buy their own poo bags or (c) the council allowing such a claim to actually get to court.
I think that covers everything. Back to class now.
Greg, I doff my cap and may I enquire to what your prescription is?
Maybe the eyeties have the right idea:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19242438
Oh fluffy pully there is so much waste done by this shit admin
No question of me taking legal action, Cardy. I don’t believe in that shit. I was just putting your litigious mind at rest. So come on, spill the beans. Your public awaits.
Tell you what, you post whatever it is that I’m supposed to not want people to know about and then post your real identity, as I have. Then everyone will know you’re not just another worthless troll.
No? Thought not.
Ive already stated Im not going to put anything on here Greg and Im a man of my word. If you would like to give YOUR audiance here a flavour of how you put across your criminal past (your words not mine) Im sure they would love to read about it, sounds like your quite proud of it to be honest.
Cardy. I suspect it’s the second part of the arrangement that you’re being coy about, isn’t it?
The part where you reveal your identity.
You said earlier that we all have a past and we do. Mine is an open book.
You appear from the context to have done stuff of which you are now ashamed.
Is this why you won’t admit who you are.
Hmmm.
Maybe he’s a bit coy because you look as if you could rip off his head, shit down his neck and then stir the mess with your todger for good measure