Pop-up goes the weasel

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Delighted residents of a run down, crime ridden slum area of Walsall are celebrating the council`s bold decision to offer a “more flexible service” for young people by closing their youth club. By cutting and pasting a council press release, your super, soar away Expired and Stupid has discovered that the unnecessary youth facility is surplus to requirements and will be replaced by a much needed training base for the borough arsonist. Instead the council will be providing pop-up anti-social behaviour units in derelict shops and a van. In line with the wise and prudent council budget policy, the 1974 transit van will be outsourced to a private partner and will be fully equipped with a mattress in the back, a glove box full of sweets and a tape recording of an out of tune bugle.

One local parent, who did not want to be named because she doesn`t actually exist, said:
“This is wonderful news. At last our kids will be able to do the things that they enjoy. Hanging around, drinking cider, torturing cats and swearing at pensioners. The council are doing a great job.”
Councillor Raquel Lloyd-Webber, portfolio holder for children and young people, told your award winning E and S that the youth were happy with the proposals:
“I spoke to my children when they were back from boarding school during half term and they told me that they never use the facility so it`s obvious that the old fashioned and backward looking concept of a youth club in an actual building is outdated and no longer needed. Now if you`ll excuse me, I have to text my mates and then try to find a way of stopping my responsibility being inadequate.”

Your stunningly brilliant Expired and Stupid investigative news team contacted a very, very, very worthy senior planning officer who said:
“I have absolutely no idea where this place is, however I can confirm that a full, wide-ranging, comprehensive and thorough consultation process has taken place with a very nice chap who took me to lunch about a month ago. Do you need any investment properties in the town? You scratch my back and I`ll scratch yours if you know what I mean.”
The supreme leader, councillor Mickey Take Drib added:
“I keep saying this. I work 28 hours a day and have to get up before I go to bed serving the people of this town. If a public servant as important as me can`t offer some lucrative real estate to my rich friends then local democracy is doomed. The youth club has to go because of the mess we inherited from the previous Roman administration under Julius Caesar. I keep saying this.”

Pulitzer Prize winning journalists from the E and S (local news for local people) tweeted local councillors for their reaction but were met by a wall of silence. With dogged professionalism, they eventually tracked down a man in a pub who claims to be “close” to the councillors. Speaking off the record, the insider told our reporters:
“Look, the people around here are thick. They don`t even know we voted for this months ago. By the next election they will have forgotten about it anyway. Yes, I`ll have another pint thanks. Listen, if you could get my picture in the paper, I`ll give you a free ride on the dodgems. Fair enough?”

So yet again, the council has proved conclusively that it is serving the people and is not, as some critics have suggested, utterly useless and corrupt.

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