The privatised road maintenance in the UK is hilarious.

A road might have tens of potholes, so they'll close the road off for a day or two, and then fix the one pothole they were called out to repair, leaving the others.

I guarantee this is because they are sticking to the letter of their contract (to repair potholes that are reported), but know they can milk the system for multiple payouts if they do as little as possible.

It's so inefficient. I can point out multiple instances of this within a 5 minute walk of my flat.

And this applies to every single essential service that these corporate ghouls have worked themselves into.

The council built a huge scaffold on our flats to cover up a disused chimney stack. This involves placing a single tile over the chimney. The whole thing could have been done with a ladder. Why did they cover the chimney? Because the neighbour downstairs has moisture problems in their walls. The chimney stack isn't even on their side of the building. The moisture problem persists.

The same company charged all the residents 800 quid each to fit 3 new "energy efficient" hall lights to replace the automatic ones we had before. These new energy efficient lights never turn off...

They charged us each 2000 pounds to paint the hallway.

They charged us 1000 pounds to replace our stair railings with "child safe railings" that have razor sharp edges and a gap at the bottom that a child could easily fall through.

I want to destroy this country