The new mayor is already getting the boot.

8 years I have been here, and we go through mayors like water.
The road outside my farm is dirt and gravel, for a mile. When the holes get so bad it is almost un-driveable some contractor comes along and throws some stones or what ever the mayor will pay for into them.
What ever they can find on the cheap.
The gent that lived at my farm for 80 years before me, well he went to the mayor once a year every year to demand a road be laid for us in the village with farms as we pay tax like everyone else, including a road tax.
He went to his grave and still no road.

I have visited two mayors now, both said there were funds for a road, both never provided it, one even went as far as saying the amount in tax we provide is not sufficient to warrant a? Road.

There are mile after miles of fields including mine that provide thousands if not 100's of thousands of tonnes of wheat, corn etc, but nope - not good enough to justify a bit of tarmac.
Just some stones peasant.

Now a road I use most days on the way to or from the farm, a perfectly good, straight road has just been dug up, changed, an island that was not needed as there is so little traffic - well one has been built anyway.
This caused massive disruption to many people including me, as people, including myself were forced to sit for 10, 15 or 20 minutes waiting for diggers, HGV's etc to get out of the road, and the man with the lolipop stick to signal it is okay to go now.

This island you see shows everything that is wrong about our society at large.

A new road is being built from that island which is also smashing down a forest, compulsory buying fields at tax payers expense, why? Because the mayor and his family have a house on the other side of town, and that road will make it easier to get there, even though there are many different roads leading to them anyway.

So we are forcing a referendum to get rid of the mayor who is as much use as the one before, and every other one "ever" but as soon as the new mayor works out the fact he does not really need to even be in his office all day, groundhog day ensues.

Wardens.

We had wardens here, in my town, they would drive around looking for people to pester that had left one wheel of their car in/on the wrong place, like on grass for instance, like I did once.
They would slap a notice on your windscreen that you had to go and explain to them "why".....

They had a car too paid for by us, tax mugs, law abiding citizens in this alleged democracy.
They abused the car and used it to take their own children to school etc, and when enough of us complained, they lost the car and had to walk, then they started being condescending and petty minded, telling people well done when they cleaned up their own dog turds, and when enough of us had enough of that we got rid of them entirely. One of the few areas that have, now they have real jobs as I have seen them doing it, they have to do construction work, but it is roads, roads leading to the mayors house.

The moral of the story is maybe we do not need mayors at all, do we?

Have a superb sunshine filled day, just my 10 cents worth.