Local Authority Worker T-Shirts

'If we're to sort out this mess and get the banks back into profit then we All have to make sacrifices...and you're ours!'

"Living in a city with functional infrastructure must be so boring."

"Who's got the hammer?"

Quality Control

'I'm afraid the cuts are beginning to bite!'

'Someone's got to do something about these pot-holes!'

Danger Falling Leaves

The Milky Way (Detail)

'It's not easy to get one of these - before that you have to have found a parking space!'

"Brian's been pursuing a successful career in the City for 25 years..."

'Of course, in the long term we're all extinct.'

Unsafe Drain Covers!

'If congress regulates obscene bonuses, isn't that a violation of the first amendment?'

'Every year local authorities whinge on about needing more money to maintain services.'

"Ah, you'll be wanting our red tape department, third door on the left!"

"We've been campaigning for years to encourage central government to delegate more powers to local authorities..."

"I hate when a parking spot in the city opens up."

"They're spelt differently!"

Unpopular Street Signs: Go, Please Litter, Yes Parking, Garbage Collection - Sometimes Never - Mon-Fri.

'He's put in a tender to run down public services.'

"You know, turning a hobby into a job kinda takes all the fun out of it."

This is not what I had in mind when I joined the Council!

'One day son, all this will be collected.'

'No reason, other than that fishing relieves stress.'

Man at council planning offices can't get through door due to position of steps.

Urban lunch

'It's the council's flood defence system.'

Budget cuts were beginning to bite at the local council

'You got much on at the moment?'; 'No, nothing really.' (Naked man)

"I hear you're something big in the city?"

"It doesn't mean you, Hickford!"

'Here - The Royal Safety Council said you have to wear this.'

"No, this is the department for obfuscation, hindrance, confusion and prevarication...you want the department for sophistry, incomprehension, fudging and evasiveness!!"