"CoffeeGate" Scandal Rocks Thanet Council

Shock horror! Following complaints about thirsty  members of the public helping themselves to cups of coffee at Council meetings, the coffee machine was moved on the special orders of the Chief Executive to another location where the greedy council taxpayers could not lay their hands on it.

Only problem was the Chief Executive forgot to tell the thirsty Councillors where the machine had been stashed. Well,  following an emergency meeting of Council called at great public expense, and  investigations by the District Auditor and the Information Commissioner , the Chief Executive was ordered to reveal the location of the machine. here is the secret e-mail which reveals the X which mark the spot

Dear Members,

 

To reduce uncertainty regarding where the Coffee machine will be located prior to committee meetings held in the Council Chamber, the Coffee Machine, will now be located in the Members Room on the second floor of the Council Offices prior to those meetings.

 

Kind Regards

  

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Any views expressed in this email are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifies and with authority, states them to be the views of Thanet District Council.

So there you have it a Council which secretly gambled with £3.3 million of your money is now denying you a free cuppa on the rates! Perhaps there is a method to this madness and in several millennia stopping you thirsty lot from having free coffee will pay off the TransEuropa Debt? Happy days.