Daniel Bird, desperate “not to sponge off the state” by remaining unemployed, put up posters around his home town of Kingston–upon-Hull advertising himself for work.
Thankfully his initiative was rewarded with a job offer within days and we all ought to commend him and wish him well, but not the Bürgermeisters of Hull who instead accused him of offences under, wait for it, The Anti-Social Behaviour Act, the Highways Act and of criminal damage (to what pray?), and imposed upon him a £75 fine!
My, the jobsworths of Hull certainly know how to deal with the criminal elements of their dirty little town don’t they?
None more so than their chief jobsworth, the Assistant Head of Service for Community Safety, (important or what?) who I’ll warrant has never had to go job seeking in his life, and who is reported to have said “The Council has an obligation to act to prevent unauthorised fly posting”.
The laws of libel prevent me saying what I think of people like that, and of their ingrained attitudes, but if I were Daniel Bird I’d shake the dust of Hull off my feet as soon as possible, that grubby little ‘end of the road’ place doesn’t deserve him.
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