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| The chips are down at Anglesey Council's subsidised in-house cafe. |
Making a claimed loss of £20,000 per annum, the cafe is said, rather quaintly by Unison, to offer staff a place where "they can get a reasonable meal at a decent price without having to go out in the rain."
What a terrible inconvenience, having to do what just about every other worker has to do, and go out, yes, in the rain no less, to buy a meal!
I doubt any of the taxpaying public will shed a tear over the closure of Caffi Mon. But they may question why the council ever ran its own cafe in-house, where it appears it was always subsidised and never made a profit. A private company which once ran it vanished, presumably because, er, it wasn't profitable.
I wonder when we might see the abandonment of the St. David's day extra holiday afforded to Anglesey council staff? According to one report, Swansea Council's loss for handing out a freebie holiday amounted to £1 million way back in 2007.
And when will we see an end to the super-inflationary increase in senior officers' pay? So out of control is the system within Councils that we learn now of very deep and unlawful payments to officers at Caerphilly Council. It is erupting into a major scandal. There is little doubt this kind of thing is much more widespread amongst the public sector.
