Well-worn phrase that links the English city of Peterborough with the German town of Hamlin.
In Hamlin, (made famous in the ancient children’s fable) they have a four-legged rat problem that has suddenly stopped the town’s fountain. (It has chewed through the cable that powered it).
In Peterborough, they have a two-legged rat problem that not only built a financially wasteful fountain, that no longer works…
… but clearly allows a ‘mate’ to keep their job, even though they were instrumental in the sad death of a child who needed Peterborough’s social care – and clearly didn’t get it.
It is clear that both Hamlin and Peterborough need a new pied piper to rid themselves of this blight.
We are ‘paying the piper’ in Peterborough… but I personally think he’s playing a lousy tune that’s only attracting even more rats around him.
It’s time for Peterborough to ‘call a new tune’ before more money is wasted and more children face danger.
We pull no punches at ‘Dreamland Junction’ when it comes to incompetency and children in need of protection.
Above: The chairman calls a council meeting to order.
