St Albans’ Glum Martyrs Cllr Chris White and Sandy Walkington St Albans is the Hertfordshire city named after the first British Christian Martyr. St. Alban was executed sometime around 1,800 years ago; yet the long suffering based on deeply held beliefs (…and deep potholes…) continues in his home town. Here we see Cllr Chris White alongside former councillor, now PPC, Sandy Walkington, moaning miserably about the state of the roads from Cllr Chris’s website.  Sandy Walkington on his website has also published an extensive dossier (or” Roll of Dishonour” as he called it) drearily detailing the dreadful state of St. Albans streets, (and featuring loads of startlingly glum images!) Not a man to mince words (…mangle maybe.. but definitely not mince), Sandy refers to one stretch of highway as “a leprous scatter of holes and cracks with occasional black tarmac patchings” … Leprous? Really? One concerned local resdent contacted GlumCouncillors to say: Barely a month goes by here without them popping a sheet of A3 through my door, bedecked with pictures of them squatting in a gutter, pointing at a pothole. I worry for them: it’s only a matter of time before one of them gets hit by a car.  Meanwhile, as the ongoing suffering continues in St Albans, Glum Councillors everywhere would do well to remember the words of George Bernard Shaw: Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

St Albans’ Glum Martyrs Cllr Chris White and Sandy Walkington

St Albans is the Hertfordshire city named after the first British Christian Martyr.

St. Alban was executed sometime around 1,800 years ago; yet the long suffering based on deeply held beliefs (…and deep potholes…) continues in his home town. Here we see Cllr Chris White alongside former councillor, now PPC, Sandy Walkington, moaning miserably about the state of the roads from Cllr Chris’s website. 

Sandy Walkington on his website has also published an extensive dossier (or” Roll of Dishonour” as he called it) drearily detailing the dreadful state of St. Albans streets, (and featuring loads of startlingly glum images!)

Not a man to mince words (…mangle maybe.. but definitely not mince), Sandy refers to one stretch of highway as “a leprous scatter of holes and cracks with occasional black tarmac patchings” … Leprous? Really?

One concerned local resdent contacted GlumCouncillors to say: Barely a month goes by here without them popping a sheet of A3 through my door, bedecked with pictures of them squatting in a gutter, pointing at a pothole. I worry for them: it’s only a matter of time before one of them gets hit by a car. 

Meanwhile, as the ongoing suffering continues in St Albans, Glum Councillors everywhere would do well to remember the words of George Bernard Shaw: Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.