Across a County Council, £1 million is back of the sofa money. Leicestershire has a budget of around £615 million so we aren't talking about swingeing savings by any stretch. I'd cut back o… (View Post)

Simple question, complex answer. A lot depends on whether you have a two-tier structure in local Government or a Unitary and whether you have a division or Ward with a single councillor or as many as… (View Post)

Evening all :) My usual response is I wouldn’t join a club which would have me as a member. Not that I have half a million lying around - Mrs Stodge and the horses have seen to that. (View Post)

All sub-contracted of course but we were having intermittent outages at Stodge Towers and the bloke came and after checking everything in the house went to the cabinet in the street and said simply “… (View Post)

Yet we face a Russian military which has failed to defeat Ukraine and can't even reach Kharkiv from its own border and we are expected to believe it will roll from Poland to Paris. That's n… (View Post)