That was likely to be the case - IT systems costs £x00,000 minimum to properly develop and IT staff fall out of pay structures (because good ones know what we are worth) and councils simply can'… (View Post)

We’ve covered this in the past and both sides are carefully saying truthful bits. The hotels aren’t providing a 4 star service for those currently in them but the locals will remember them as the (ig… (View Post)

That makes no sense - day to day spending should be from taxation, borrowing should be capital investment. Micawber’s advice was for day to day spending, Polonus’s doesn’t cover buying something like… (View Post)

The problem we have is those sophisticated tools have a built in bias (towards London) that needs to be fixed. And that would best be fixing by given local leaders some actual money and responsibility (View Post)

I think that's Osbourne's biggest mistake - with austerity he cut everything when he should have done more to cut day to day spending while throwing money at infrastructure projects... Aust… (View Post)