My glorious council

I have lived here in Carmarthenshire since 1973 and suffered under Dyfed and the new unitary authority; the latter has inherited the worst parts of both Dyfed and Carmarthen District Council.
CDC is the council that had the wizard wheeze of building a chairman's parlour on top of an emergency planning bunker that they had neglected to get planning permission for (some things never change). The original project costs were allegedly around £60,000 but escalated to more than £250,000, the hole in the ground still exists under the car park in Spliman Street, I understand it is not waterproof.
Carmarthenshire County Council pay the chief executive more than £160,000 a year and the chairman approximately £50,000 and yet they don't seem to understand the concept of openness and accountability. See http://www.carmarthenplanning.blogspot.com/ for more details, an excellent blog by Jacqui Thopmson of Llanwrda.
http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/ posted: Ms Gravell struck back at criticism of the high salaries saying: "If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys." Who are the monkeys now?

What a wastrel I!

It is Sunday afternoon and I have been reading the Observer and eating and drinking while the delightful Victoria Coren has spent the morning reading all the papers and still find time to write a thoughtful rebuttal of one of the "Dirty Digger's" "journalists" http://www.victoriacoren.com/main/blog/archive/bashing_the_bishop
I'm sure she doesn't need the help of an old idiot from west Wales but I just think that as many people as possible should be alerted to some reasonable opinions!

I'd also like to point you to look at  http://carmarthenplanning.blogspot.com someone who is willing to stand up to the bullies in CarmarthenshireCC.