Save James Day Home!

Day 272

18 February 2010

Have you heard the one about Dorset County Council making a sickly music video, entitled, "The Promise"? It's really funny, cuz it has a bunch of sycophantic county councillors and other council members, singing lines from the UN convention on the Rights of the Child. It can be found on You Tube, so if you decide to watch it, be sure to hold your sides, as it's laughable, being that it resembles a scene from "The Office". I expected David Brent to leap out at any moment.

I have an acidic view on the video as they are blatently failing the children of Swanage, yet within a week of making their decision to ignore us all, they release a video promising that they will do all they can to make sure that no child in their council's catchment will go without!

Now, not content with firing their cannons in our direction to try to close our recycling centre, our schools, and James Day care home a couple of years ago, they are now readjusting their sight on to the latter, deciding to increase the rent to beyond what the owners can reasonably pay, forcing the home to close within the next couple of months. The council say that it's because of falling numbers in the home, and yet rather than try to be proactive about increasing the numbers, they have decided to hike the costs.

Excellent. Well done.

I am so glad that my council tax contributes to these people's illustrious careers in how to be completely counter-intuitive, destructive, and reactive.