New Digital Face of the Brighton Clock Tower

 Plans to turn central Brighton Clock Tower into a digital display has outraged residents and threatens a local man’s livelihood.

Harry Hoganwash is the resident Clock Tower Configuration Officer for Brighton. He has been in post for 37 years but new plans to change the face of the Clock Tower, in central Brighton, from analogue to digital could leave the 71 year old man jobless.

Mr Hoganwash, who also lives in the Clock Tower, has spoken out saying:

“I’m not up to date with all the modern things – all this digital nonsense. If the council go ahead with their plans I’ll be out of a job and I won’t even be able to tell the blinking time in the town centre.”

In yet another move to cut spending, Brighton and Hove Council plan to replace certain council jobs with computerised equivalents in an attempt to reduce paying out on manual labour. The plans have not gone unchallenged however and campaigners have been active in their outrage although no one was willing to comment.

A member of the Brighton Board of Counsellors had this to say:

“Obviously we do not wish to upset Mr Hoganwash, but in this day and age, those who fall behind the times get left behind.”

“We want to make sure we are up to date with the newest technology and if we can cut costs along the way, everyone will benefit in the long run.”

The fate of the Clock Tower and Mr Hoganwash will be put to a council vote next week. In the meantime, the council have asked people to stop sending letters of complaint containing human waste as they “want to respond to everybody but there is a huge backlog which we are wading through at the present time.”