I am livid about this.

A few years ago, the local council decided they wanted to build a leisure centre in town. This had a new swimming pool, gym, and so on. It was largish for a town of our size, very well designed and put together. Of course, our money, our -tax- money paid for it.

Now, fast forward to today when it’s running (it opened a few months ago) and we have to pay for the privilege of a membership to the place. Let me just refresh your memory: our -tax- money paid for it.

So it’s something like £20 a month, all access kind of thing, I suppose it’s a fair price if it was a gym.

Ok, move on Richard.

Today I hear that there is a certain Royal someone coming to our charming little town. Wow, I am so graced! They’re coming (although, to be fair, I’m not sure if it’s -just-) to see our new leisure centre.

What’s pissing me off? The fact that certain local bigwigs are being invited to the Royal reception for the leisure centre. Let me refresh your memory again: our -tax- money paid for it. So even though the tax money went into it, and it’s -for- the public (yet we have to pay for membership/access), to have someone say ‘Ooh aah’ at it, only the bigwigs get invited. How nice.

Surely if it is public money that went to construct it, the public should be involved in any praise, not the local businesses that made money from it’s construction? I really do feel like we, the public, are just the (government/ruling class)’s piggy bank.

I want to move to another country.

Oh, and although I know it will do NO good at all (as I’ve done it in the past), I’m writing to my local MP to complain and whine about it.

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