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Insolvent Councils?
By Andy | February 2, 2009
Still on local government there are strong rumours that this calendar year will see a large council English Council go into insolvency.
This seems extraordinary and nobody is really sure what will happen if insolvency occurs. Under-pinning this set of affairs is a financial management system that has fallen to bits, councillors who have failed to drive through efficiencies while at the same time trying to keep council tax increases pegged back.
It will be interesting to see how local government fairs this year. As for this council, well I’ll keep an eye on it. Suffice it to say that this wrecked organisation is controlled by the Party that would have us believe that they are best placed to ‘manage’ public services.
Topics: Local Government |
February 3rd, 2009 at 4:47 pm
Scary!
Are we talking about anything near where I live?
February 3rd, 2009 at 5:09 pm
Not that I’m aware of, unless you know something I don’t
February 4th, 2009 at 6:54 am
Perhaps fresh from his “successes” as “Trade and Industry Minister” Brown should send his little helper and best mate Mandelson to sort out the problem?. I’m sure he could do for them what he did for Woolworths!
Seriously, it’s nice to see Pompous Pete going up in the world - he’s gone down often enough!
February 5th, 2009 at 9:35 am
Alan,
I don’t want to be picky but your comment has absolutely nothing to do with the topic. In the future such contributions will be deleted.
I don’t really see the point of these constant homophobic remarks — stick to the issues.
You’re beginning to remind me of Carol Thatcher.
February 5th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Oh yes Andy: Carol Thatcher is the new weapon to try to deflect attention from the dire state that Brown has got the country into isn’t she?. What is “homophobic” about the observation that Mandelson is currently enjoying his “popularity” after twice having to resign in disgrace from the government?
New Labourites seem to be in the same position as a character in Alice through the Looking Glass “The White Q—-” (I had better not print the last word in case you find that “homophobic” as well: you know the line (and the character)?: A word means what I choose it to mean”
Sorry Andy but you and your kind really are getting nervous now because you know the days of the “project” are now seriously numbered. Brown is on the way out - his use of the word “depression” yesterday was either a Freudian slip or a diagnosis on his own state.
Go ahead and impose censorship if it will make you sleep easier.
February 6th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Why I’ spend my time arguing with a bigot who verges on homophobia, anti semitism and who has a very dodgy view of women, well it just beats me …
This is a post about insolvency and local authorities. None of what you have written has any relevance at all.
Grow up. Start your own blog. Go and do something constructive. Work for somebody — anybody — and campaign for something better.
Just being obnoxious here doesn’t change anything andy doesn’t achieve anything either.
As Ghandi said, “Be the change you wish to se in the world”.
Go DO something.
February 6th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Andy, Have you never heard of opposites?
Examples
Left opposite Right
Day opposite night
Up opposite down:
Thus I said “Mandelson going UP in the world, then contrasted it with it’s opposite
Seems like simple English to me. It seems you have a bit of a dirty mind: I have no idea why you equated that statement with sex. The fact that you did, well, any homoerotic thoughts you have are your own affair. My post was about Brown having such great faith in mandelson and I was suggesting he might be the man to sort out insolvency in local councils, since he is not doing frightfully well as business secretary - judging by the number of companies in trouble.
A post, dear boy, about current affairs, not fellatio.
As regards my view of women b eing “dodgy” well, you have some very strange women amongst your New Labour friends: for example Blears has now apparently suggested that the unemployed turn to God. Well, for all the good Brown is doing perhaps that is not such a bad idea. But it’s not very practical.
February 6th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
Opposites, What does this have to do with Local Government?
I have in front of me a whole 2 years worth of your contributions to this blog, and I say again it looks anti-semetic, homophobic and very nasty to women regardless of who they are.
This is not a public bulletin board. You are intent on peddling your insults anywhere rgardless of the topic and the debate.
Don’t you think it’s time to do your own thing?
Anyone can winge and anyone can throw insults. To be constructive or creative takes a little more effort doesn’t it?
But ultimately that’s no what you’re about is it?
Looking at this wonderful library of Giles quotes in front of me it is clear that you are not a very pleasant individual.
I don’t mind anyone arguing about ideas and politics but that’s not what you’re about.
February 6th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
“I don’t mind anyone arguing about ideas and politics but that’s not what you’re about.”
Really, Andy?. No old chap what you like people to do is admire your great loyalty to the “project” and for people to wonder at your great intellect. You are running a vanity project and you just can’t take it - your fragile ego is shattered - when people dare to disagree with you.
Of course, it is easy to understand (and perhaps even to sympathize) your overwrought persona: things are just not going well for New Labour now, are they?. The great Clunking Fist has turned out to have feet of clay. Both he and Blair pretended that they had got everything sown up “an end to boom and bust”: “and end to spin” (Brown) and those great Blairisms “my government will be purer than pure”.
WWell, they have been found out: as Orwell wrote about autobiography “any life, viewed from the outside is merely a series of defeats” and defeat is what is heading for New Labour. Why?: because people like your goodself are so busy being PC, taking the Guardian editorials as gospel, and belittling all other parties that you have let Brown/Blair and the assorted rabble turn the party into a cheap copy of the Tories, and as I have told you before, if Middle England want Tories, they’ll go for the real thing - and it seems they will.
As for my terrible views on women: well just look at some of the untalented shower we have in government: Blears, “Blunderwoman” (Jacqui Smith) Caroline Flint, who is a real Tory lady (she, you’ll remember, in Jan 08 wanted to precluide the unemployed from obtaining or retaining council housing). sadly your hypocrisy showed through there - not a word against her: Imagine if a Tory or LibDem had said it? You would have been jumping up and down with rage. Ditto Purnell, Ditto Frank Field - you have nothing to say about his double act with Nicholas Soames in immigrant-bashing. If I had said it, or a Tory or LibDem you would have been working yourself up into moral indignation.
I assume your “anti-semitic” jibe is because I do not approve of the questionable behaviour of Levy and Abrahams (who in my view should ahve been prosecuted and indeed would have been had they not been titled and/or wealthy. The same with mandelson over that mortgage application in ‘98 I(we would have been charged with “uttering a forged document”). I would dislike these people if they were Baptists, 7th day Adventists, CofE or whatever.
You are just not very consistent Andy: to quote Orwell again “four legs good two legs bad” only in your case it’s “Labour good, everyone else bad”
If you think I am abusive what about Clarkson’s remarks about Brown?. he has apologied for the “one eyed” bit, but noticeably not about being a “Scottish idiot”.
And if you think I am nasty to that pompous puffed-up, self-regarding supiercilious Mandelson, I could draw your attention to a website where, I think, you would be aghast: You’d choke over your Guardian!