Merry WinterLight-Festival! No Limits on PC madness?

[Andres]

why give it a name at all ? just put the lights up and people can call groundhog day light-festival for all i care, unless theres a nessecary reason to name the lights or the general period...

Ok, so in fact, it doesn't matter how the event is called.

It has always been called "Christmas", but nobody really cares about the name anyway?

Then why did Mister Ed Turner, deputy leader of Oxford, bother to put energy in this exercise of futility?

If politicians occupy themselves with such nonsense, I propose that we calculate the cost of making and executing this decision and take that amount of his next paycheque(s), just to make clear that you don't get elected into an office to spend your time with complete and utter nonsense.

Because, frankly, I don't care either how the event is called, but what gets on my nerves is the absurdity that politicians waste time on such matters.

Don't they have anything better to do?

Hence my outcry, my scream for someone able to explain to me why such decisions are being made.

That's all.

Or is it too much to ask a politician to show some "common sense"?

Am I the one being absurd here, you know, by asking that deputy leaders should occupy themselves with useful things?