Joins a growing list of councils !! and the Con jobs aren't stupid though as they've cut all the grants to local councils KNOWING full well that the councils will be blamed by the locals and the con jobs will get praised for being good with our money/economy etc etc ...  |
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By *oggoneMan
over a year ago
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" Joins a growing list of councils !! and the Con jobs aren't stupid though as they've cut all the grants to local councils KNOWING full well that the councils will be blamed by the locals and the con jobs will get praised for being good with our money/economy etc etc ... "
That's been their game and it works works unfortunately. There is a seriously underinformed electorate and a co-opted toothless media. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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More coming. Most Councils have seen their allocation from central govt cut by 40%.
This Govt has been completely irresponsible with the public money, giving much of it to their mates, or spaffing it away on vain glory projects (BoJo being the prime example of that) |
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By *ndy58Man
over a year ago
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"Another council declares bankruptcy & joins a few others who have done the same.
Lots of questions to be asked, just hoping that they didn’t invest in something dodgy like Thurrock Council did. "
Probably not, the two main issues are a vast bill (currently £760 million and growing) for historic equal pay claims and an IT system that fails to do what it's supposed to and needs at least another £46 million spent on it.
It's not going to be a good time for the next few years for those of us who live in Birmingham. |
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"Another council declares bankruptcy & joins a few others who have done the same.
Lots of questions to be asked, just hoping that they didn’t invest in something dodgy like Thurrock Council did.
Probably not, the two main issues are a vast bill (currently £760 million and growing) for historic equal pay claims and an IT system that fails to do what it's supposed to and needs at least another £46 million spent on it.
It's not going to be a good time for the next few years for those of us who live in Birmingham."
I haven’t see the IT systems in Birmingham but I have seen many other councils and government systems and they are atrocious money pits. Completely unfit for purpose, hugely expensive and very late. I am sure the same can be said for many other areas of procurement in those organisations.
The issue for me is that the people running them just don’t have the requisite experience and the work processes they use to manage things are fundamentally flawed because they operate to different incentives than the ones that are needed to manage these projects.
The bureaucracy needed to run a modern government org is not the same as the one needed in the 1950s but that is whatever have got. Until that changes nothing will change. |
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