Token Effort

You can imagine the council meeting now;

"Since the riots people have really embraced this I/We love Mcr campaign. Let's show our support and encourage them back into the city centre with free parking for a month"

"That will lose us millions in revenue"

"Let's show our support and encourage them back into the city centre with free parking for a week"

"That will lose us hundred of thousands in revenue"

"Let's show our support and encourage them back into the city centre with free parking for a day"

"That will lose us thousands in revenue"

"When is it quietest?"

"Between 4 and 6 on a Thursday afternoon"

"Let's show our support and encourage them back into the city centre with free parking between 4 and 6 this Thursday"

And thus, with one shallow act of crass tokenism, the parking sub committees biscuit budget, carefully preserved with three library closures, remained intact.