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bainbrig | 13:18 Wed 01st Aug 2018 | News
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Another example of lily-livered *** not standing up to a bullying government (actually it was Thatcher and her rate-capping that started it).

I’d bet the people of Northamptonshire would gladly pay a pound or two a week extra and maintain their services, but no, the council officials kow-tow to this pernicious legislation.

Stand up!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-45030182


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A bit more than that, Ummmm.....and it's costing thousands to try to find and recover the money....it's long gone.....
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-36342097
God! I thought it was just incompetence but hadn't realised that so much corruption was involved until I read ^that. That's terrible!
That's not all from what I have read and been told, Naomi. So perhaps if BB reads it he will understand our anger and reluctance to agree with his suggestion of gladly paying more.
I'd be reluctant to give that bunch of swindlers anything!
I'm hoping Bainbrig reads it and understands why we are not idiots who just don't want to pay.
We do have genuine concerns about how our councils run and how they use our money.
good luck with that gness, the OP is a hard line socialist who thinks all problems can be solved by robin hood methods.
Ahem.....it was the *Borough Council* (another shambolic organisation, admittedly) who were involved in the Sixfields debacle, and not the County Council who are responsible for the cluster-***ks engulfing the remainder of Northamptonshire.
Yes, Jack...I put up the first link to show how our money is being used......or misused....both borough and county are responsible for the mess and the lack of money to spend on services.
Heather Smith finally stepped down when a damning report into their financial handling was published.
It was also the NNC who employed an acting chief executive at over £1,000 a day.
So Borough or Council.....our money has been wasted.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/mar/23/struggling-northamptonshire-county-council-paid-acting-boss-more-than-1000-a-day
NCC.....x
I agree with the govt inspector

Northampton isnt bust - it is just badly run ...

I ( helped to) run a council ( subscription body, incorporated under sign manual blah blah blah) from 2006
and read their financial minutes last week for 2017
- 'No one here can remember when we last ran a deficit....'

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My apologies gness. But there ARE many both on here and in the real world who muddle-headedly fail to see the link between our fast-disintegrating infrastructure and their antipathy towards putting their hands in their pockets.

If the fat (Tory) cats of your local authority have run off with your hard-earned, then it’s they who should be in our gunsights, not each other.

Sorry again for unfairly lumping you in with the local sheep. You are obviously a person of more discrimination than that.
Poor bainfrade…. still hasn't twigged that socialism always results in running out of someone else's money. This debacle is due to corruption and people having too MUCH control over what they don't understand.
I have been following this with interest. I just can't see how so many £million just 'went missing'. Anyone else think someone ( or more likely many people) must have had ''their fingers in the till''?
Eddie, click on Gness's last link
Thank you, Bainbrig.....since the revelations about the football loan came to light I've taken more interest in both borough and county councils......I've been far from impressed with either.

Obviously, living here, it's often a matter of chat with friends now and without exception if services need an increase in our contributions to run well nobody would baulk at that....
It's things that seem to come to light month by month now that would make us think twice and ask just how our money is to be used....x
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Togo scrawls “Poor bainfrade…”

It’s amusing that when these people have no coherent argument they resort to this curious variant of the ‘ad hominem’ attack - they attack our names instead!

Glasshouses, Togo, glasshouses.
"If you WANT public services, hospitals, roads, a decent police force, libraries, schools, and so on and on, you have to PAY for them...."

Indeed you do. Unfortunately a large number of people who take advantage of those services pay nothing and a large number of people who never use them fund the lot. I’ve no particular problem with that – there’s lots of services I pay for which fortunately I am not in need of, but I may be one day (for which, no doubt because I am “rich”, I will have to pay again for). However, there are many issues surrounding LA funding which go beyond that. But more than that, what you should NOT have to pay for are jollies for councillors and officers (£50k spent on air fares in three years including 51 European trips and 13 outside Europe including a few to Montego Bay), courses instructing people how to tie up their scarves and £7.1m granted to a failing Heritage Farm project (to name but a few of very many).

Local authority waste, mismanagement and inefficiency is rife in this country. I won’t add to 3Ts excellent summary only to say I wholeheartedly agree with his belief that all LAs (at every level, from Parish Councils to the GLA) should be abolished. The Northamptonshire example is just one of many across the country.

It’s a shame that some have sought to blame a Prime Minister who left office 27 years ago. Since then there has been 13 years of Labour government and five years of Coalition. Neither of those two administrations sought to reverse TGL’s ideas and as has been said, simply screwing more cash out of those who pay is not the answer.

It’s an even greater shame the debacle has been linked to Brexit. Zacs unfortunately does not understand (and probably never will) that it is not what individual elected UK governments do or do not do that is the issue. It’s the fact that our continued EU membership will see them able to do less and less. He obviously relishes that thought; many do not. It’s great that he trusts a bunch of unelected foreign civil servants (with an unabashed Federalist agenda) more than he does an elected UK government (under review by the electorate at least every five years). Fortunately the majority of those who bothered to vote in the referendum thought otherwise.
I'm inclined to agree with NJ - remove all layers of LA and scrap Council Tax.

Run services from appropriate existing central bodies - pay for everything via an increase in VAT (hard to avoid) and Income Tax (avoidable, but not that easily these days) plus Business Rates set and collected centrally. Cap the total raised/spent at about 50% of the ludicrous sums frittered away at the moment. Most of the rest would be saved by removing multitudinous snouts (both councillors and 'management') from the gravy troughs.

I might allow small units (perhaps no more than 3,000 people) to be created which collect a tiny Poll Tax of up to £1 a month (payable by absolutely everyone - no exemptions) - administered by unpaid/unexpensed volunteers to improve the local environment (litter, dogcrap, footpaths, hanging baskets etc etc).
I see that Bristol Council will go bust in next 2-3 years. So I heard on local tv a few days ago.
I was reading yesterday that not only are the council planning on changing bin days to fortnightly they are also planning on scrapping weekend collections.

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