Cheapskates!

Two weeks ago up the end of our road, the council put up some notices to warn commuters who park there that they would not be able to do so from last Monday to Friday because the road was going to be 'top dressed' and if any cars were parked, they would be towed away.
The message obviously wasn't read, or believed by all because I noticed four cars parked there when I went shopping on the Monday morning and they were still there a half hour later when I came home. If they were towed later on, I don't know.
Anyway, on Wednesday when I went to the farmer's market the road was free of cars and it was quite noticeable that something had been done to the surface of the road and it wasn't a very good job either!
Now, I know that we have extreme financial problems in the country and we all have to put up with being squeezed a bit harder than normal in order to get out of this recession and that public spending has to be cut to the bone. BUT, the job that's been done on the road looks as if it was the work of a blind, one armed road builder who had retired from road surfacing before he had finished his apprenticeship!
It's false economy to do a job that's so bad it will have to be done again in a very short time. They might as well have not bothered. None of the potholes have been filled, there are still great cracks and there are huge areas where there is no gravel so when the sun shines on these patches it will melt the tar.
The British motorist pays so much duty on petrol and also in road tax that the government must receive sufficient funds every year to pave our highways with gold!