Towering folly that is so typical of European Union
THE mountain lift – a discreet shade of peppermint and 120ft high – was supposed to boost tourism in the tiny and remote Sicilian village of Sutera.
The intention was to link the village with a hilltop monastery.
An EU grant was obtained to finance the £1.5million cost of building this eyesore and it was completed in 2012.
Unfortunately the council cannot afford the operating costs and the elevator is now known as “the lift to nowhere”.
There are fears that much of the money involved could have ended up in the pockets of the local mafia. In sicily! Who’d have guessed?
British MePs are incensed by fresh evidence of EU profligacy and even the locals say that the money would have been better spent mending the rough roads that link this village with the outside world.
It is no good encouraging tourism in a place that is impossible to reach. The careless financing of this preposterous elevator is exactly what we have come to expect from the decision-makers in Brussels.
Before Britain was inextricably enmeshed in the EU we could have afforded to laugh at this sort of comical carry-on. But now unfortunately we cannot afford such a luxury.
We are all paying for the follies of europe year in year out.
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Children in playgrounds do not always play nicely. sometimes they fight, pinch and pull each other’s hair.
In the past a teacher would have restored discipline and if necessary would have frogmarched the miscreants to see the head.
These days, with teachers unwilling to intervene physically, many of these trifling incidents are reported to the police.
This has pushed up crime figures on, for example, Merseyside.
Says chief constable sir Jon Murphy: “A whole host of physical interactions between people – sometimes it is a punch where there’s no real injury – are reported to police in a way they never were.”
Police forces are stretched enough without having to deal with playground squabbles. It is a sign that some teachers have lost all natural authority if they are unable to maintain order without running to the police at the first opportunity.
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Workers at B&Q have been told to read Fifty shades Of Grey to help customers who come to the store with plans to construct their very own red room of pain.
Though it seems unlikely that after all the publicity any B&Q employee hearing the phrase Fifty shades Of Grey would direct a customer to the paint chart.
