Leeds City Council yesterday announced a £100million project to replace all of the city's street lights.
So thats where the supertram money went then.
Why do we need completely new street lights in Leeds ?
So that astronomers can see the night sky apparently.
Its the only reason given anyway
So thats alright then.
£100million.
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HM Government run some very succesful prisons, so succesful are they that they only have 200 spaces left in the whole country at the moment.
So they are having a clearout to make more room.
And one of the ideas is to spend £20million on grants to foreign prisoners so that they will leave both prison, and the UK.
So lets look at that again.
You send a police van to a prison, you load into it a selection of foreign prsioners and tell them that they are free to leave the country.
You take them all to the nearest UK airport to the prison and you put them on the first flight to anywhere else on one of the multitude of budget airlines that exist at every airport - £29 to Budapest for example.
According to my calculator my excellent plan would completely empty all of the UK prisons for just a tad over £2million, a tenth of the cost of HM Governments plans which only involve a handfull of prisoners for their £20million.
Not sure what Budapest would think of the idea mind.
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It's been 26 years sinced I lived in Leeds. Glad to know that the council are still as rubbish as ever.
On a related note - have you seen www.leodis.net? Partly funded by the very same Leeds council, it's a photographic archive of the city. Fascinating stuff for anyone who grew up there.
I love leodis.net - use it for references for paintings all the time !
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