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Howard, they lost £50m of OUR money during the Icelandic banking crisis. Their "leader" then said on TV, beamed into my apartment in Lagos, that losing £50m was not a poblem as they had another £53m stashed away just in case, or words to that effect.
By my reckoning that's over £100m of OUR money they are sitting on, doing nothing, apart from maybe paying inflated expense claims from KCC Councillors?
So, what would I suggest as an alternative? Well, firstly, give the £100m back to the council tax payers for a start. Wouldn't that make a change?
Secondly, disburse the county activities amongst the district councils, and, where they are unable to provide a cohesive service, hand it to central government, if nothing else that will help ease the control freakery of Westminster.
I don't have a proper answer to be honest, but I do know we as tax payers are filling the coffers at Maidstone completely unnecessarily and something should be done about it. Furthermore, before I zipped off to deepest darkest I had a good look at what KCC was spending and didn't like what I saw. The Labour Group, for example, had more "spokespeople" than you could shake a stick at, and all being paid a "special" allowance for it too. If I recall correctly, an extra £17000pa each. Again, OUR money being wasted.
To me it would be good to broaden the expenses focus to include local government; I'm sure millions could be saved without too much trouble, but, self interest will probably stop that from happening.