Oh look, bless him. Councillor Lewis Smith, one of Labours young bright eager new wunderkind. Thrown on to cabinet, the executive of Tamworth Borough Council after merely 8 months of being a Councillor. Keen to show his mates and colleagues his new found ‘power’, he asks the Council officers if he can get a big screen put up in the town centre to watch England in the final of the Euros.
We wonder if the officers initial response to his query “This has come as a surprise to us all” was the fact that England reached the finals, or that Councillor Smith asked for such an undertaking to be made. With no thoughts to the implications whatsoever. Not just that there’s no money to stick a screen up in the town centre on a Councillors whim, but the fact that the many businesses we have in our town (in it’s now normal configuration of recreational centre) would probably very much like those people inside their establishments drinking, eating and helping to pay their wage bill.
Lewis being a socialist of course, we wonder if the thought of those capitalist pigs making a profit off the efforts of our great nations football team was so abhorrent, that he wanted to scupper them in the act. It seems though, a wise capitalist had a chat with him, and we got this rather sharp 180 which gave us tremendous whiplash. So bad, we might consider suing the council.
“I’m sure this brings a much welcome boost to local businesses”. We imagine he signed off this statement that came through the official Council press release channel with somewhat gritted teeth. It in fact is rather unprecedented for them to have put out a statement like this at all. Maybe it was to try and combat the chance of a large number of people turning up to the town centre wondering where the screen is. We all know how rumours whip around don’t we.
So, no big screen for the football this weekend, establishments will breathe a sigh of relief that Labour have not yet succeeded in coming after their profits. All that remains now is for England to do their bit for the party, comrade, and win this thing. Oh, and mind your alcohol limits kids!
