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JoshBB 18-01-2016 08:00 PM

Tory-run Council spends £90k on Rolls-Royce while axing children's services
 
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tory-run-council-spends-90000-7200898#rlabs=3%20rt$category%20p$8

This is the 'party of the working class', is it?

Crimson Dynamo 18-01-2016 08:00 PM

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Originally Posted by JoshBB (Post 8435987)
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tory-run-council-spends-90000-7200898#rlabs=3%20rt$category%20p$8

This is the 'party of the working class', is it?

The Mirror

:rolleyes:

Kizzy 18-01-2016 08:47 PM

How is the mirror any less credible than the mail? They're both tabloids :/

GiRTh 18-01-2016 08:51 PM

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/polit...-a3158926.html

Vicky. 18-01-2016 10:11 PM

Sorry, Labour run councils spend money on crap too. Ours keeps wasting money on really stupid unnecessary things while claiming to be broke :umm2:

bots 18-01-2016 10:23 PM

there was a time when governments cracked down on crap like this, but local governments demanded autonomy, This is what you get.

kirklancaster 19-01-2016 07:09 AM

I could fill 25 pages on here with similar but even worse true accounts of Councillor's and Council corruption dating back decades, on the part of BOTH Labour AND Tory Councils.

None of that makes THIS act any the less disgusting and infuriating though. A lot of Councils are corrupt simply because corrupt people become councillors, and they gravitate towards being a Councillor because being one AFFORDS them the opportunity to indulge their corruption and enables them to 'Feather Their Own Nests' and live 'The Good Life' at the expense of the Rate Payer.

user104658 19-01-2016 08:20 AM

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Originally Posted by kirklancaster (Post 8437378)
A lot of Councils are corrupt simply because corrupt people become councillors, and they gravitate towards being a Councillor because being one AFFORDS them the opportunity to indulge their corruption and enables them to 'Feather Their Own Nests' and live 'The Good Life' at the expense of the Rate Payer.

Agreed, although I would apply this to the vast majority of politicians at ALL levels, right to the very top.

Kizzy 19-01-2016 09:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier (Post 8437494)
Agreed, although I would apply this to the vast majority of politicians at ALL levels, right to the very top.

Was reading an article on how many MPs were now landlords, yet voted down that rented accommodation should be fit for human habitation! what?! :/

Livia 19-01-2016 11:36 AM

LOL... The Mirror.

Kizzy 19-01-2016 12:19 PM

I don't get the mockery surrounding the mirror... Is it not the truth? I'm sure the council involved would be mightily annoyed if it wasn't.

Livia 19-01-2016 01:31 PM

The bottom line is that Tory councils are more efficient and more economically run than Labour councils.

Kizzy 19-01-2016 03:45 PM

Did you read that in the Telegraph?


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