Meeting:
Kind of ritualised, aimless mass non-exercise conducted by groups of city council officers on a twice daily basis in order that they can have a cup of tea and use up some time either side of lunch. See also conference.
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You left out one key ingredient – the Ormondroyd (God how I hate that name – makes Bristol sound like Heckmondwyke or Royston Vasey) buzzwords – or are they coming later?
Bureaucrats love to meet, talk, draw up minutes, talk some more, spend tax-payers money cleaning moats and on 3rd mortgages, meet again. Have a meaningless election. Raise taxes. Talk some more. Then they wonder why extremist parties gain support.
I once attended a BCC meeting on anti-social behaviour, naively thinking it would be worth it.
The chair went straight to the subject of setting up ‘six or seven’ sub-committees.
I never went back.
…that is assuming they are even in the office as opposed to being on permanent sick leave!
I simply do not know why people are paying the taxes they do? If they REALLY knew what was happening with their money… they probably wouldn’t!