News emerges of the council-by-council grant settlement for next year. It turns out that that nice Mr. Pickles has given us a nice Christmas present of a big cut in funding (or as reelmolesworth tweets: "sontaran general eric PICKLES xecute stage 1 of invasion by cuting local govt. funding to all humans who have temerite to vote LABOUR") Essentially, urban provincial councils and Labour-controlled London boroughs get a ginormous cut in funding while some leafy shire councils actually get an increase.
"I don't understand how they can do that," says Jack Harry, literally baffled.
Noreen looks at him as if he's just arrived from the Planet Zog. Neither she nor I can understand how he doesn't know that they can, they do and they will.
3 comments:
Not to use your blog to promote someone else's tweets but I find reelmolesworth a delight. How it took the rest of you so long to find out the Sontarans *are* taking over UK Local Government I wouldn't care to consider. :)
Scary when you find those you had filed under "cynical extremists" were right.
There isn't hyperbole enough for our current governors.
Tom: the lad has his finger on the pulse. Of quite what I'm not entirely sure.
Macy: one of the glories of public sector experience.
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