Council tenants throughout the city have been left puzzled, astonished and furious by the latest antics of Portsmouth City Council. Whilst tenants have to wait weeks – or in some cases months – for maintenance work to be carried out on their properties, Council contractors sprang into action yesterday, to (badly) paint over a slogan painted on the side of the controversial Arts Lodge & Park Cafe.
The slogan, 'People Not Profit' was spray painted on the fence outside the derelict building – closed by the Council despite overwhelming public opposition – after the Council painted over a colourful mural two months ago, in a fit of municipal vandalism.
In less than 24-hours, usually sluggish and incompetent Council contractors managed to complete all of their job order paperwork (no doubt in triplicate!) and find the time to visit the site on the 1 Bank Holiday, to cover over the slogan.
Although their paint job, in typical Council 1, looks like it's been done by a four-year-old! Pete Driver, who spotted the amateurish council handywork said "Profesional painters needed for PCC – and more money for the right colour, and enough to finish the job – only bits of this fence were painted." "They even couldn`t do that right – half a job and looks an eyesore.
What a very sorry state of affairs…So SAD!" he added.
