Tory Council In Meltdown

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-42925660

So why did this Council waste money on a new Council HQ, that they will now have to sell ?

[jackthehat]

Because NCC and NBC are completely inept whichever Political Party is at the helm.
They haemorrhage £millions and can'tsee the wood for the trees in any given situation.

[sunny-dave]

I pay my council tax to this bunch of halfwits (actually that's an insult to the average halfwit).

I agree with JtH - much as I'd like to make political capital out of this, they've been a shocking shambles for too many years, regardless of which party in power.

Self important blowhards - running a small council - badly.

[jno]

a few years ago the council lent £10m to Northampton Town Football club. Mysteriously, the money seems to have vanished.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-36342097

The club's boss lent £30,000 to a Tory electoral candidate. This was kept secret

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-41819859

I'm not convinced this is mere incompetence.

[jno]

sorry, that second "lent" should of course have been "donated".

[Deskdiary]

Mikey - do you not think it is a bit rich to post a Q about a Tory council when you were conspicuous by your absence on the last two Qs about the mess in Haringey?

[jno]

mikey can post on what he likes. Vast numbers of people posted about their outrage at Haringey and yet have failed to turn up to comment on Northampton.

[gulliver1]

Mikey, Should have posted Tory Government in Meltdown.

[mikey4444]

DD...but this thread is about Northamptonshire, so stop trying to change the subject !

[Deskdiary]

I mentioned it simply because has form for ignoring uncomfortable truths about Labour.

[youngmafbog]

Total incompetence.

Now come on Mickey lets see you admit when labour cock up.

[New Judge]

All Local Authorities reek of incompetence. Self-serving inept busybodies given control of vast sums of taxpayers' dosh. There is no place for Local Authorities in my model of the Universe.

[david small]

I agree with New Judge. Give the stupid power, and you get the powerfully stupid.

[gness]

And some folk, Deskdiary........ just have form for picking for the sake of it and ignoring the post being discussed.....x

[Deskdiary]

In Gness's style of posting.

That's bad........really bad......i don't know what else to say.......so I'll do a lot of dots.....heres some more dots........and more......I'll finish with some dots...............and then some kisses and dots......xxxxxx

[tonyav]

Will be a few more councils follow suit in the near future I think.

[Deskdiary]

I wouldn't say this is a usual tacticc of mine, but I kind of did want to subvert this post because (as stupid as it is on an anonymous internet site) I do get a little irritated with the way Mikey is utterly blind to Labour's failings.

There have been two very recent threads where the nutters from momentum have shown their colours, and the left leaning (Mikey mainly - Gulliver is an idiot so can be ignored), have completely ignored it.

I find that odd.

[jno]

and yet you still haven't managed to comment on the failings of a Tory council ... while berating others for being one-eyed.

Comedy gold.

[Deskdiary]

Durr. Mine at 1.01.