Take, for instance, the article on a Council’s Care Quality Commission (CQC) report, which reveals that the council’s adult social care services have been rated as "needs improvement".
The article cheerfully glosses over this minor detail. Instead, we are treated to the uplifting news that this Council is “just one step away” from a good rating, as if merely being close to adequacy is worthy of celebration. Why aim for improvement when you can aim for mediocrity?
Of course, the article chooses to bypass the opportunity to offer constructive suggestions or a shred of acknowledgment for how things could have been handled better. Instead, it prefers to applaud this thrilling near-miss of adequacy.
Had the councillors invested their time in actually working or coming up with original ideas (instead of, say, recycling the same old tired strategies like sheep following a flock), the cost of these necessary improvements could have easily been covered. But alas, time moves too fast for our dear leaders. By the time they've finished copying someone else’s ideas, the world has already moved on.
There is documented proof these councillors have wasted more community funds on vanity to their own beliefs, than doing the right thing.
Mustard Marmite.