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It is worth noting, the Watchdog and I diverge regarding one of his last two paragraphs.
There will be a November election of national scope. There will be local opportunities to express citizen feelings. The below photo is from ABC Newspapers, here, (with the fair use captioning added), it being the commemorative groundbreaking of the subsidized Rental by the Rails, started, surprisingly, on a schedule with chickens home to roost only after the election...
Some now on council bemoan the constraints of debt service and debt retirement for the Norman Castle. Yet is the answer to incur further debt, the dog chasing its tail into ever more constraining and constrained circles? At best, what, the dog catches and bites off its tail, proving what?
One can always reach back to others and their decision-making, as constraint. Yet the big step the ones up for reelection made, Look being a decisive force on Ramsey's council at the time and quite the advocate for the step, was to buy the distressed land for millions out of foreclosure with the intent to spend much more immediately rather than holding and waiting for a market recovery, with the trend then as friend.
That's as far back as I care to trace mischief and bad decision-making, since it is the relevant "crossing the Rubicon" point for the four shoveling luminaries facing reelection - regardless of the prior sunk costs they faced while deciding.
Interestingly, of those in that photo, the two that are brightly smiling over things are Flaherty and Cronk.
The four horsemen of our local Apocalypse, (i.e., the Town Center rebrand now known as COR), shovel on unsmilingly.