GB News presenters were left gobsmacked after it was revealed Britons were told they could be in for a 103-year-long wait for local roads to be mended.
Residents, who live along Horsham Close in Banbury, Oxfordshire, reported their torn-up road has not been resurfaced since 1983.
Discussing the story, Penny Smith blasted the "ridiculous news", with co-host Cameron Walker adding: "103 years? I could not believe it. Absolutely farcical."
The locals have since branded the potholes "craters" and have declared it "yet another sign of Britain's crumbling infrastructure".
The GB News hosts were gobsmacked at the findings
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Pothole campaigner Mark Morrell, often known as "Mr Pothole", joined the People's Channel to chat about the startling findings.
Speaking to Penny and Cameron, Mr Morrell said: "I actually used some AI and drove around the 34 miles of Banbury along the main routes and identified 1,500 severe defects."
The unhappy residents requested the local authority work on the repairs but a recent Local Authority Road Maintenance survey (ALARM) revealed the average road repair cycle is 103 years.
"How naive or stupid really, to actually put a figure in there rather than, say, be done as an as and when," Mr Morrell added.
"It just reflects the attitude really from politicians and authorities that we have to accept to manage decline, and then we're going to get told we're going to pay per mile."
Mr Morrell asserted the council "still has a legal responsibility under the Highways Act and to actually maintain road to a safe standard at public expense".
He further insisted that a lack of funds does not qualify as a legal defence.
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Mr Pothole joined the bemused GB News hosts on Good Afternoon Britain
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After the issue was brought to the attention of the county council, Oxfordshire's cabinet member for transport Andrew Gant revealed the real extent of the wait.
"The funding received by local authorities, unfortunately, means that not all roads can be resurfaced within the timescales we would prefer. As such, our policy is to take a risk-based approach," he said.
"This is not just an issue for Oxfordshire, but a national one."
A council spokesman added: "The main road linking many of these closes, Sussex Drive, was resurfaced a few years ago.
"Because of budgetary restrictions, we have to prioritise roads based on a number of factors, including prioritising roads that receive more use."
Meanwhile, other councils have claimed they are progressing with the matter, with Reform UK announcing that they have fixed almost 115,000 potholes since May's local elections.
The tally equates to approximately 630 repairs daily across their 12 authorities, alongside their crackdown on wasteful spending.
Reform’s Deputy Leader and Doge Chief, Richard Tice, celebrated the success, telling GB News: "Since May, Reform UK councillors have been getting on with the job of cleaning up the mess of past Tory administrations.
"This is only the start of our plans at local government level."
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