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Yep, the irony was not lost on me when I read that yesterday.
Although normally Tory councils get bailed out early, so only Labour ones are seen to be running out of money. Must be Brexit taking the Tories eye off the ball.
I can’t help but think, mostly because it was only slightly hidden between the lines that they spent all their money on fancy new digs and now they can’t afford to collect their council tax payers bins?
Had to laugh at the comment made by a councillor, “you will continue to pay your council tax because that’s the law”
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Incompetence is rife right across the political spectrum.
Big surprise.
I thought the Tories had a simple bribery protocol set up
PJay, as I understand it, they had 12 buildings, some with crippling rents and Utility bills. The idea was to reduce expenditure by housing all the council offices in one place, and try to save money. Northants is an odd county, large towns of former industry with now high deprivation (Northampton, Corby Wellingborough, Kettering) but also smaller country villages filled with wealth, but teeny. So the council tax is skewed
Was on a college course when Liverpool city council got upset with the budget failure,many years ago, the lecturers at our college where afraid of job losses and their pensions, eg all expenditure stopped from college,except food for dinners, huge meals once a week we where there, no chalk so everything was photocopied, it appeared the photo copiers where leased and they hadn't been or where going to paid for a very long time,social services staff where given bus passes to visit residents, as there was no money to pay fuel costs.
Went to a major tool stockist and some liverpool city council workmen came in to order a load of stock, they got shown the door by the manager, account had been cancelled as they owed many thousands, they walked out saying they had had the same responce from many suppliers that day.
It’s a freeze on ‘new’ spending, as most of their costs are ongoing, as in not new, and they still have cash for ‘those in need’, AND its not a million miles from the end of the year, why is this news? On top of that, a Tory council? Odd.
From the report:
"We have been warning government from about 2013/14 that, with our financial position, we couldn't cope with the levels of cuts we were facing.
"Before Christmas, I wrote to the secretary of state to say we were about to fall over the edge of the cliff because we can't just increase council tax.
No, they can't "just" increase council tax... but they could have held a local referendum on Council Tax (imagine being responsible to the electorate for justifying your chosen levels of spending, the ignominy) the fact that they didn't do this, despite apparently predicting a crisis for several years, suggests incompetence.
The council announced in December that it was looking to increase council tax by almost 5% as it sought to make savings of £34.3m
Locally the council is in similar dire straights and its the result of tory policies and spending cuts to local govt that mean all councils are struggling which ever party is in power locally.
Oh, and MP for South Northants?
That would be Andrea Leadsom
Councils have plenty of things they can cut spending on, they are simply not prepared to. Any referendum people are going to vote for no council tax rises, they’d rather see cuts.
@nick the identity of the MP is irrelevant. Councils are independent
As I said peope will not vote for council tax rises to pay for services.
it will be all the council houses and new washing machines being handed out to immigrants the second they step of the train. there seems to be a total disconnect from the electorate and who they elect in the region. For example wellingborough is an absolute shit hole and getting worse and they return a tory mp without fail
<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 16px; background-color: #eeeeee;">Councils have plenty of things they can cut spending on, they are simply not prepared to</span>
Not without consequences that affect the vulnerable.
Plenty is misused there.
Klunk
<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 16px;">it will be all the council houses and new washing machines being handed out to immigrants the second they step of the train. there seems to be a total disconnect from the electorate and who they elect in the region. For example wellingborough is an absolute shit hole and getting worse and they return a tory mp without fail</span>
I would would like to think you are trolling but you honestly believe that doudo you ?
<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: #eeeeee;">Councils have plenty of things they can cut spending on, they are simply not prepared to.</span>
please can you list the areas where this council could have cut spending but have refused? Thanks.
Well, here’s a few quid they could have saved:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-42904014
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Well, here’s a few quid they could have saved:</span>
Even though it's a different council?
I guess what all of this shows is that Tories can't be trusted with public money.
is that fake news then ninfan or just stupidity 😉
Again what has happened to you ? you used to be so much better at this.
such as what Jambalaya? - the council in question only provides statutory services from now on - which of those can it cut?
Maybe just for one week they could ask for the £350000000.