What Do These Guys Do All Day ?

The more I see of the State's activities, the more I think that there must be a serious number of people in its employ who have nothing to do.

Yesterday both Womble On Tour Juniors arrived home from school with a letter from the Council informing us of the perils imposed upon all-and-sundry by those who park on the zig-zag lines outside the school.

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At the bottom of the letter there was an invitation, complete with tear-off slip (see above) for parents to make a signed declaration that they wouldn't park their cars on the zig-zag lines. Once we've filled in this form, we're expected to return it to the school.

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What happens to these forms then, I wonder ? Do you think they get collated, and sent to some sort of "Zig Zag Tsar" at the Town Hall ? Perhaps schools that don't return more than a certain percentage get penalised in some way ? Perhaps parents who don't fill them in get enrolled for Remdial Parking Classes ?

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More fundamentally, how can it be that we end up paying so much in taxes that we're actually funding this kind of rubbish ? If they want to stop illegal parking outside schools, all the have to do is send a traffic warden up there every so often, which is what they're threatening to do anyway.

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I'm intrigued as to what happens with these forms. I'm going to mail the guy who's sent them out to discover the truth. If you want to mail him too, you can do, at david.warbuton@kirklees.gov.uk. Go on, give him something to do.