Leaflets and Make-Work

I met a neighbour as I was starting to run, this morning. Here's what she said:

I've got half a dozen leaflets from THH, some of them are pretty much the same. I don't read any of them because all they do is say how good they are. And half the time, including weekends there's a subcontractor's van hanging around (note: this is EPS) doing I-don't know-what, but we'll be paying for it.

Both of these are the visible part of the enormous waste and intellectual dishonesty in the interior of THH. From the front line, it's not showing any improvement over the council, just finding new ingenious ways of wasting our money (red uniforms, new logo, leaflets, subcontracting a-go-go, wasted energy, overpaid gardeners, overpriced-bad-quality 'partners' you name it).