The insanity and waste in Britain’s Town Halls.

Daily Mail
"Local government is now entirely producer-led. Everything is run for the benefit of those working in the organisation. And to hell with the mug punters paying for it through ever higher taxes and charges.Jumped-up local councillors suffered severe attacks of grandiosity and awarded themselves ridiculous titles, lavish expenses and fat allowances, which have doubled in five years.The old ‘ways and means’ committee, which met once a month to balance the books, was transformed into a full-blown ‘Cabinet’ in permanent session, Fairtrade coffee and Jaffa cakes all round.Salaries soared into the stratosphere as town clerks restyled themselves ‘chief executives’ and demanded private sector rewards. We have ended up with a significant number of local government employees being paid north of £200,000 a year. Now the money has run out, it falls to these superannuated superstars to decide where the ‘cuts’ must be implemented. And, as I predicted straight after the election, they aren’t going to put themselves out of work.So they cynically close libraries, day centres and swimming pools and give P45s to school dinner ladies and lollipop men. When it comes to the pain, it’s women and children first.
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