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[Raeturbo]

https://mobile.twitter.com/pauldbowen/status/1467055566908448770/photo/1

[Sir Tigger KC]

Road paint must be expensive stuff! 

[STEMO]

Shouldn't it say ''Swing both ways'?

[dave the builder]

wouldn't it be cheaper to give free pound shop rainbow tinted glasses to the few people who want such nonsense 
that way everything they look at would conform and be rainbow effect 

[Doctor Gollum]

A rwd Tesla Model S (to really piss off the greenies) and some worn out tyres should see that taken care of

Obviously anything V8 powered would be more gratifying, but it would cost £40 just to get to the crossing.

[Raeturbo]

Yes a four wheel drive launch on semi slicks😉could make a nice picture👀

[Lizzie Zoom]

I CAN fully understand the feelings about this being a terrible waste of public money that could be spent elsewhere.

But this is life, in a world where there are so many budgets for "needy" causes that seem to never do what you would like them to do.  Build hundreds of thousands of houses for the working classes - Council Houses -, feed all the starving children of the World, or reduce the energy bills for all the working classes, instead of spending billions on what we may consider as worthless causes.  Why spend billions on restoring churches, castles, or any protected building when there is the poor still with us?  The Royal Navy just the other week lost a £100,000,000 F35.  How many houses for the poor could that have built?!

Decisions, decisions, which in business with those damned budgets, must be made that will not please everyone, as our politicians continually find out to their cost in the public money field!!

So £10,000 was spent on THAT crossing, when there are so many other worthy causes.  But the, only, saving grace is that it may cheer up many people with it's colours and gaiety instead of the usual bleak black tarmac.  You could say this is art, and in art millions, if not billions, are spent in creating public statements, such as memorials or "features" to make people remember of smile.  £10K is nothing in the grander scheme of things, and it is down to the budget holders to decide how they spend that particular amount of public money.

Nothing will please all the people all the time as we all see different priorities at different times.  Such is life.

[Doctor Gollum]

I am sure the homeless veterans will agree wholeheartedly as they freeze to death.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I'm pretty sure this is the same 'totally necessary for inclusion and diversity' Camden crossing I posted about a month or so ago.

However......Camden had plans for a total of 4 in the borough.

So it may be one of the other 3.

Sorry to spoil your day, Rae. 

[Doctor Gollum]

Forty grand is obviously much better value

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Forty grand is obviously much better value

£41856 to be precise, Al.

Camden council is pretty woke and I imagine this financial folly was signed off by a 6ft tall 'Laydee' with hairy balls. 

[Doctor Gollum]

Forty grand is obviously much better value

£41856 to be precise, Al.

Camden council is pretty woke and I imagine this financial folly was signed off by a 6ft tall 'Laydee' with hairy balls. 

Anyone you know?

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Forty grand is obviously much better value

£41856 to be precise, Al.

Camden council is pretty woke and I imagine this financial folly was signed off by a 6ft tall 'Laydee' with hairy balls. 

Anyone you know?

I can honestly say I don't know any women with hairy balls.

She would need to shave her balls to gain my interest.

[Sir Tigger KC]

I am sure the homeless veterans will agree wholeheartedly as they freeze to death.

Especially when they are spending £billions housing illegal immigrants in 4 star hotels! 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I am sure the homeless veterans will agree wholeheartedly as they freeze to death.

Especially when they are spending £billions housing illegal immigrants in 4 star hotels! 

Much like government, councils don't have their own money. They rely on taxpayer money.

How they spend 'our money'  will be related to how they think, how they view the world, their personal values, their sexuality, and how they vote....etc..etc.

If you have a left leaning council run with a high proportion of white liberals, homosexuals, lesbians, trans people, black people,  then they will see this type of spending as a 'good use of funds'. It is inevitable.

If you have a council run by Tyson Fury types  ......then taxpayer money will be spent in a different way....

Camden council is probably 'minority heavy' and I imagine all purchases and policy decisions will reflect this.

I doubt they consider the 90% majority who make up the rest of the borough.