Delusional? Thanet Council reward themselves

with your cash

for their honours

Looks like Thanet council is once again pushing the boundaries of credibility, this time round with its 'Pride of Thanet Staff Awards of 2007', presumably bosses at the council have realised that there is no overwhelming public urge to reward employees for doing their job, so courageously they have taken the initiative and decided to waste hundreds of pounds if not thousands from us the local taxpayer.

Full-page adverts like the one that appeared in Adscene 16th January, make me and other community charge payers wonder what the hell we are paying for. Without a doubt most council employees do a competent job, which is just what you would expect in any organisation however since our community charge bills have seen yearly to increase well above inflation for as long as most of us can remember and council employees receive good salaries I don't see that we need to waste any more money on superfluous Awards.

Still if nominations are required, I would like to nominate those staff who gave various excuses as to why their bosses were either in a meeting on holiday and unable to answer simple questions etc.

At the risk of being negative maybe we ought to have some public acknowledgement of those council officers who were less than helpful.

No wonder Sandy Ezekiels Conservative administration is struggling to keep council tax increases to a minimum, perhaps if the council wished to make a genuine contribution towards unsung heroes in Thanet they could look towards the whole community not just their own employees.

Still on a more positive note perhaps Thanet council could just e-mail their employees particularly heads of departments and ask them how they have contributed to a better life in Thanet.

Whilst this isn't quite on the scale of the Labour's cash for honours scandal it is our cash and I for one would like to keep it.