Law Of Unintended Consequences

FAFO is pretty apt for the problems I am having with a certain individual as he will find out soon.

What though this is about is the number of stories you read or hear about where someone (but generally some government local or otherwise) comes up with a brainwave, pushes it through against all the evidence to the contrary and then has to spend more of yours and my money putting it right or in some cases doubling down until complete destruction is wrought.  They then appear like moles emerging into the bright sunlight, hardly believing their eyes at how Armageddon has devastated their ideas.

Take the parking restrictions in many places, priced to actually make revenue they in fact deter people from going to town, I now only go for seeing my Dentist once a year or my optician once every two years.  When I have been recently I can always find a space!  It used to be that yo'd have to try two or three car parks but now, as the tumbleweed blows across the tarmac it's much easier and more expensive.  The shops are either up in arms about it (some offering to cover the cost of your car parking) or like about 50% of the high street are boarded up!

Same town, they made plans for a one way system and using the ring road and narrowed the high street and put in larger pavements.  They did not however, have pull ins for the busses and so after a very short time of it opening we had neither this bypass system working and the traffic was backed up because when a bus stopped, everything stopped and you couldn't overtake either really.  Space given for pedestrians added to the blockage and they had to reverse engineer it back to the old system and blow me down it worked!  Millions of our money once again.

I still use the mantra "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"  but they always have to justify their position by doing good things and f*****g it up.  "There's been a huge drop in trade and we'd urge people to come and visit our lovely town"  In other areas by the sea they put the charges up so much that no one came and they were once again blinking in the bright sunlight and could not understand it.

They painted Double Red Lines in some areas and businesses now have half or less of the trade they used to have.  We truly are run by Muppets and that';s being cruel to Muppets.  Businesses move away and customers are happy to drive to the outskirts to the large supermarkets and stores because the parking is plentiful and free and there are more facilities.

The waste of money is outrageous and no one gets punished for it anymore, no one sees the stupidity of local parish councils my local one serving less than a 1,000 people getting involved in climate change.  The larger councils getting involved in politics in Africa or debating and ruling on Ukraine or commenting on Middle East policy.  They cannot even empty the bins properly and treat us like kids.

Slowly we see it unravel and let's hope it isn't long before the adults take back the reins and stop this awful waste of resources.