Local government has been beset with freezes since the dark days of 2008. Year after year the sector has experienced council tax freezes, pay freezes, hiring freezes and the like.
But Diary feels uncertainty about how Worthing and Adur councils have taken the concept one step further, by freezing 100 cats and dogs over the past two years.
Apparently, the authorities have stored pets, discovered dead on the roads, in chest freezers in depots. Sadly, only 1% of owners ever summon up the pluck to identify and inter their own animal.
Don't get Diary wrong. We are so full of empathy, that we can never get through a TV animal documentary without having to switch over to Man vs Food, as soon as the cruel indifference of nature is brought starkly home. What is the problem, you might well ask?
Diary thinks they aren't being ambitious enough. Perhaps more entrepreneurial councils could take up where comments from certain supermarket giant supremos left off, in the aftermath of ‘horsegate', and provide squashed kitties and flat dogs as a source of sustainable meat for a hardpressed restaurant trade?
