By Bill Heaney
God, they’re great, the Council. So, the only people who will be allowed to park a vehicle legally won’t be permitted to park if they don’t have a Blue Badge because there is a hold-up in granting new applications and renewals in the hopeless Health and Social Care department, which came into being under the SNP government?
They sack doctors don’t they? They ignore public petitions, don’t they? They never explain, they never apologise. They can’t tell us why there is a hold-up with the Blue Badges because they don’t comment to The Democrat.
Their chief officials walk off laughing at us with their huge salaries while their best, hardest working, most caring staff are paid buttons and are the first to be pounced on when budget cuts are required.
Yes, the council carers are to have their wages and conditions (the days and hours they are required to work) changed without their say so.
Who says they are not into the cruelty that goes hand in hand with having to worry about your job.
They victimised and bullied a disabled member of their staff and still haven’t paid the man the compensation awarded to him in the courts. They don’t talk about that either. In fact we pay a fortune for a communications department that doesn’t communicate.
They banned us from speaking to them after they lied about me interrupting a meeting. Or was that one of their many ‘misunderstandings’. What a load of palaver!
Please remember readers that when they don’t speak to us, they don’t speak to you. Maybe we should reciprocate by not voting for them come the local government elections next May? And persuading the government to introduce special measures in the meantime.
Bullying and victimising people is illegal in a democracy. They should be made to pay, not sent home into early retirement with one of those longed for “golden goodbyes”.
The ban on press officers speaking to The Democrat has now stretched into years. As the man said, you would get less for murder.
Top of page: Dumbarton High Street on a quiet day for traffic.