Good news as far as Im concerned

[dave50]

Good news as far as Im concerned. The less of my money they spend,the better. No doubt local authorities will be saying they will have to cut front line services, one of their favorites being the closure of old people's homes, purely to make a political point and cause maximum embarrassment to the government. I don't believe a word any of them say, they are all a bunch of incompetent, wasteful leeches.

[Baldric]

Links don't work as Titles!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30524122

[baza]

Strange how all the cuts never include the posh car used by the council leader.

[youngmafbog]

And this is always the problem when someone tries to reform. Usually, but not always, a labour council willdo it's damndest to scupper the change. This is because they dont want their fat tax payer lifestyles ruined, so they cut a front line service to prove a point.

There are millions being spent on waste. The tax payers alliance is currently running a campaign "War on Waste" that is well worth a look.

[Old_Geezer]

Whilst anyone not in the council finance dept can't say for sure what the situation is, it doesn't seem good news to me.

Apparently the council are already too underfunded to provide the weekly garbage collection I am paying domestic rates (or whatever they now want to call it) for, nor can they keep my street lights on all night, and usually they are lying and turning them off even before they said they will deprive us who pay for them.

And now they will be able to point to even lower funding from my general taxation to justify not supplying the basic services.

[jno]

I take it "waste" = "money spent on anyone but me". So obviously I'm against it.

[wolf63]

I don't have children, I want a rebate in my Council Tax as I won't be using that service.

[DTCwordfan]

R4 was saying that the Council reserve funds have never been higher - at £24 bln was it? Maybe 21 - but that's a lot of dosh for a rainy day and, if well managed by their treasurers, should be generating another £3bln+ on short term money markets.

[Retrochic]

I pay £2400 a year council tax -for that I get my bins emptied one a fortnight and I have to take them to the end of the road. There is no public transport where I live and we don't have mains water or sewerage. If my house set on fire the nearest fire station is 10 miles away and the nearest Police station the same. I sometimes wonder what my money is spent on as its certainly not my Services.

[mikey4444]

I'm with Wolfie here....I don't have kids either, so I don't want my money spent on them. I haven't a fire at home either, nor have I been burgled, so I want a refund on the Fire Brigade and the Police as well. Might as well include any money spent on old age pensioners, and the disabled, as I am neither.

With any luck I can get my Council Tax down to about 50p a week.

PS...forgot to add that I am not unemployed, ill or have Special Needs.

[ToraToraTora]

Well it was His Tonyness that filled the town halls with 600,000 non jobs so there must be room for cuts. Just don't touch the 5 a day coordinators they do vital work!

[ToraToraTora]

".......or have Special Needs" - mikey you are a labour supporter,surely that counts!

[venator]

For many years, if a council department didn't spend its budget, it could have it cut next year. We all used to see roadworks everywhere in the month before their year end.

Similarly, the men at the top got paid for the number of staff they supervised.

These factors produced inefficient bloated councils.

When they were told to cut staff, they transferred a lot of services to Capita and the like, so that the council payroll appeared to be cut. Capita, of course, negotiated clever contracts, and services actually cost more.

There is still a lot of fat to be shed

[mikey4444]

T³...lol at 10:17 !