More fantastic work by Mr Reasonable. Yesterday he exposed the total fantasy involved in the "projected savings" from Barnet Councils One Barnet project. A couple of points spring to mind.
1) When will the local Tory Councillors wake from their torpor and knock this expensive sham on the head.
2) When will the local press start doing its job and start reporting this stuff, rather than waiting for local bloggers to do all the work
http://reasonablenewbarnet.blogspot.com/2010/12/high-risk-of-not-achieving-213-million.html
Mr Reasonable stood for the residents party at the last election. It was clearly Barnets loss that a No Hope Tory was elected instead.
"Even if street protests abate, the Establishment has been served a warning (but it) has a limited repertoire of responses.
ReplyDeleteThe Government has embarked on an irrevocable and punitive programme of cuts, likely to embitter even the best-disposed of low and middle earners."
- in the Telegraph.
Two very good points, and of course if no 2 were ever to happen, it might just assist the earlier arrival of no 1. Sadly, this seems unlikely.
ReplyDeleteHowever, Barnet has done remarkably well from the local government settlement announced yesterday - a cut of 2.6% puts them 108 out of 151 local authorities (where 1 is the biggest cut).
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