Quote: Nothus "I'd say our council are probably just inept. From reading some of the (possibly biased) posts on the wakey board about their council, they sound downright corrupt.'"
It's dead easy & fashionable to slag off Councils. I know Councillors of differing parties & they are all committed people; I wouldn't do their job for a gold pig. Similarly Council officers. Councils have had their budgets decimated by a vicious Government intent on destroying social structures but passing the blame to local authorities. There was a large piece on Radio Leeds a couple of weeks ago about Knottingley - the town that time forgot (funded by Wakefield). Virtually every Council social structure in that town is being closed down - libraries, swimming pools, day centres. it is a desperate situation. When you combine that with a place like Bradford, where the political power changes every couple of years, is it surprising that private entities, usually run by millionaires, like RL teams are not their priority?