There were sighs of disbelief and much eye rolling as residents across Somerset discovered that staff at the All-New-Yet-Unimproved Somerset Cuonty Council are unable to use their office printers correctly.
Included with the recent council tax bills, themselves the subject of howls of disbelief, was a double-sided leaflet detailing the benefits of the new One-Stop Council. Unfortunately, after printing the front page of the leaflet, someone operating the printer had put the paper back into the machine the wrong way round, resulting in residents having to turn themselves upside down to read the other side of the missive.
Writing in the leaflet, Leader Phil Crivens said “A new Council is needed to tackle the big challenges we face.”
With the new Council being unable to successfully tackle the challenge of printing correctly on both sides of a sheet of paper this doesn’t bode well for an ability to face more difficult tasks.