28 August

Another social media favourite when sinking the boot into Council workers would be to have a superior chuckle at the circle of guys just ‘standing around’ while one does all the work. Nobody ever explains how you’d get all 11 men into the ditch at once, or why you’d even want to. They dug the hole, now one guy is working with the pipe or conduit. A much more accurate way to see a picture like this is that it’s the Council in the hole, and that circle is the public standing around doing nothing, offering their opinions to Council and each other on how things should be done, on something they know nothing about. That’s social media in a nutshell.