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Title: How much?
Post by: admin on December 17, 2018, 02: PM
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Title: Re: How much?
Post by: Johnny Bongo on December 17, 2018, 02: PM
Bovine excrement ain't cheap!
Title: Re: How much?
Post by: Inspector Knacker on December 17, 2018, 03: PM
The only remarkable thing about it is how they've lasted that long.
It's like letting a troupe of excitable but clueless chimps loose as wedding planners and wondering why the wedding went down the pan.
Title: Re: How much?
Post by: seaton on December 17, 2018, 03: PM
Quote from: Inspector Knacker on December 17, 2018, 03: PM
The only remarkable thing about it is how they've lasted that long.
It's like letting a troupe of excitable but clueless chimps loose as wedding planners and wondering why the wedding went down the pan.

It goes back too my Nanna and Granda always voted Labour so I do,that's why they have lasted so long.
Title: Re: How much?
Post by: Inspector Knacker on December 17, 2018, 04: PM
Aye, voting for the label, no thought involved, just a reactive tick in the voting booth.
I've voted for them all over the years in national politics, but never in local politics.
Title: Re: How much?
Post by: fred c on December 17, 2018, 04: PM
HBC are facing a £6 million budget deficit this year and although £8k is a drop in the ocean, spending it on a self promotional propaganda leaflet is indefensible......Odd that everyone but the SCABAL think the same.
Title: Re: How much?
Post by: Stig of the Seaton Dump on December 17, 2018, 04: PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74-WSM0xTyE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74-WSM0xTyE)


Voting Labour is like giving a chimp a machine gun. 
Title: Re: How much?
Post by: diSme on December 17, 2018, 04: PM
£8000 is certainly no drop in the ocean. I could think of many more worthy causes that could be spent on. Imagine what 8k would do for one of the local food banks...
Title: Re: How much?
Post by: Inspector Knacker on December 17, 2018, 04: PM
Quote from: fred c on December 17, 2018, 04: PM
HBC are facing a £6 million budget deficit this year and although £8k is a drop in the ocean, spending it on a self promotional propaganda leaflet is indefensible......Odd that everyone but the SCABAL think the same.
They're intoxicated with fripperies and preening self promotion.
Title: Re: How much?
Post by: Inspector Knacker on December 17, 2018, 04: PM
Quote from: diSme on December 17, 2018, 04: PM
£8000 is certainly no drop in the ocean. I could think of many more worthy causes that could be spent on. Imagine what 8k would do for one of the local food banks...
Why not just eat them.
Title: Re: How much?
Post by: diSme on December 17, 2018, 05: PM
Quote from: Inspector Knacker on December 17, 2018, 04: PM
Quote from: diSme on December 17, 2018, 04: PM
£8000 is certainly no drop in the ocean. I could think of many more worthy causes that could be spent on. Imagine what 8k would do for one of the local food banks...
Why not just eat them.

Eat what,, those sumptuous looking glossy brochures?!  :-\

I remember feeling distinctly nauseous when one dropped through our door.

I wonder if the 8k figure includes the cost of delivery.... I sincerely doubt it. Probably die-hard volunteers were used to do the delivering. I did note that ours got posted at around 9pm, which would suggest volunteers to me.
Title: Re: How much?
Post by: Lucy Lass-Tick on December 17, 2018, 05: PM
Hartbeat is usually delivered by a Tyneside based company, so the odds are that they dealt with this bumf, too. £4908 being the cost of distribution sort of backs up this theory.
Title: Re: How much?
Post by: Land Phil on December 17, 2018, 05: PM
Didn't they give about £1K to the food bank recently.

Such misplaced priorities
Title: Re: How much?
Post by: Lucy Lass-Tick on December 17, 2018, 05: PM
Quote from: Land Phil on December 17, 2018, 05: PM
Didn't they give about £1K to the food bank recently.

Such misplaced priorities

To be fair, HBC actually gave the Foodbank £10,000.
Title: Re: How much?
Post by: Inspector Knacker on December 17, 2018, 08: PM
Quote from: diSme on December 17, 2018, 05: PM
Quote from: Inspector Knacker on December 17, 2018, 04: PM
Quote from: diSme on December 17, 2018, 04: PM
£8000 is certainly no drop in the ocean. I could think of many more worthy causes that could be spent on. Imagine what 8k would do for one of the local food banks...
Why not just eat them.

Eat what,, those sumptuous looking glossy brochures?!  :-\


No, of course not. Eat the Councillors.
Title: Re: How much?
Post by: Inspector Knacker on December 17, 2018, 08: PM
Quote from: Lucy Lass-Tick on December 17, 2018, 05: PM
Quote from: Land Phil on December 17, 2018, 05: PM
Didn't they give about £1K to the food bank recently.

Such misplaced priorities

To be fair, HBC actually gave the Foodbank £10,000.
Was it their money or our money?
Title: Re: How much?
Post by: Lucy Lass-Tick on December 17, 2018, 08: PM
Since it was approved by Finance & Policy take it that it came from the council kitty rather than individuals.

https://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/hartlepool-foodbank-given-10k-boost-by-council-after-sharp-drop-in-donations-1-9420389
Title: Re: How much?
Post by: Inspector Knacker on December 17, 2018, 09: PM
So it's our money then.
Title: Re: How much?
Post by: Disgruntled voter on December 18, 2018, 12: PM
Hope he has a few left over to put down his pants...ready for the spanking he will get at tonight's labour meeting.
Title: Re: How much?
Post by: Inspector Knacker on December 19, 2018, 06: AM
Not so much a spanking, more a reassuring massage with warm baby oil.