Town sergeant required for Margate Mayor
Is it any surprise that we pay so much in tax, for our local government. According to Friday's Gazette, Margate mayor Doug Brown, has been without a town sergeant since May.
Among the duties for Sergeant, are driving and making sure the mayor gets to his appointments, and wearing a frock coat with brass buttons and red cuffs, as required.
I haven't got the foggiest clue what a mayor does, in the 21st century other than visit other Mayors, I just wonder if this is something that should be consigned to the history books along with the Royal family and other fairy-tale nonsense in how otherwise modern world.
Not only do I have to wash and dress myself in the morning (Mrs Me refuses), I also have to drive myself, if only our representatives could be as businesslike.
Pictured below Margates Mace, as carried by past town sergeants, now only used for ceremonial purposes, although in the Middle Ages this would have been used to see off smart ass bloggers.
The Mayor of Margate has modernised, Tony. He carries his mace around in a tin these days, like the rozzers.
ReplyDeleteDidn't have you down as a fellow traveller. As the Mayor's website explains, the office has "evolved to reflect the times ...unlike some outmoded and dated titles". The duties involve errr..meeting other Mayor's. Including those of the German and French communities with which Margate is twinned; Idar Gudjohnsen (formerly twinned with Chelski) and Les Miserables. Margate is also twinned with Yalta on the Black Sea which seems fair enough as Croydon is twinned with Arnhem. The "Current Mayor" page is blank so the post of driver seems a particularly nice little earner. Yours fraternally
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