'It Is More Than My Jobsworth!'

came the cry from the jobsworth in Manchester council, when taxi driver Asif Khan change his car, a silver Volkswagen Passat to a silver Honda Accord, the problem is Honda silver is not well, silver, the father-of-two was told by Manchester council that his badge could not be renewed because the new car did not meet the town hall's strict colour code, the taxi driver who had successfully driven taxis for the past seven years has fallen foul of the councils colour code, taxis must be silver or white, so is this the new silver? no, according to Manchester council, the rule was brought in as a safety measure to help crackdown on bogus taxi drivers, strange, it looks to me that most cars in the UK are silver or white, but the jobsworth's know best, so as Asif said 'it's practically the same colour as my old car, it says silver in the log book and on the insurance documents, the only way I can get it passed is by buying a new car or re-spraying it',

a spokesman for Manchester council said: some people do make mistakes and in cases like this we provide advice and refund the application fee, so there you have it this hard working man has now been given three choices by Manchester council, buy a new car, re-spray it a non Honda silver or go on the dole!

speaking of jobsworths how about environmental enforcement officer Wayne Turner of Milton Keynes council? self-confessed eco warrior Ruth Boden-Webster, 50, has been conscientiously sorting her rubbish for recycling for more than 30 years, but unfortunately for her when she went to the recycle bins on land that Tesco owns the council had not emptied the bins so she left a a bio-degradable bottle next to an overflowing recycling bin, wait for this, with her name and address on it, is that the way a fly tipper would do it? well the answer is yes, the council wrote to her with a fixed notice of a a £75 fine or risk being taken to court, she did not pay as the bins were full, so good ol'e Wayne, if he follows government guidelines could take it as far as Ruth to be taken to court and face a fine of up to £50,000 and a prison sentence of up to five years for fly tipping, fly tipping with her name and address on it?

special needs teacher Miss Boden-Webster orders special biodegradable washing up liquid online and it arrives in a foot-and-a-half tall, 25-litre container, she has contacted Milton Keynes MP Mark Lancaster who has pledged to raise the concerns with the council, a council spokesman replied saying there was a problem with people fly-tipping rubbish at the Tesco site and added: 'there are signs advising people to take larger items to one of our three community recycling centres,' I have one hope, that the creatures that impose and enforce these rules are the first to go in council job cuts, it would be so nice to see how they would cope in the real world, not the ivory towers these jobsworth currently live in.