Comments on: Don’t Say You Weren’t Warned, John http://www.iainlindley.co.uk/2007/12/04/dont-say-you-werent-warned-john/ Cllr Iain Lindley - Salford City Councillor for Walkden South Ward Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:00:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: john merry http://www.iainlindley.co.uk/2007/12/04/dont-say-you-werent-warned-john/#comment-460 john merry Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:51:10 +0000 http://www.iainlindley.co.uk/2007/12/04/dont-say-you-werent-warned-john/#comment-460 intrested in joes comments about a decision supported by his leader. presumeably this means in time honoured lib dem fashion he will be campaigning to get rid of him! chris there is no problem with this years bufdget . the article was looking at next years projections which every authority is currently doing and I would guess projections in manchester will also at this stage reveal a gap. ian since the tory party every year will not allow the budget scruitny committee to examine your proposals it is clear that they are unlikely to be serious. There is no crunch meeting and there is no salford crisis just a recognition that it is likely to be a tight round for all local government. intrested in joes comments about a decision supported by his leader. presumeably this means in time honoured lib dem fashion he will be campaigning to get rid of him! chris there is no problem with this years bufdget . the article was looking at next years projections which every authority is currently doing and I would guess projections in manchester will also at this stage reveal a gap. ian since the tory party every year will not allow the budget scruitny committee to examine your proposals it is clear that they are unlikely to be serious. There is no crunch meeting and there is no salford crisis just a recognition that it is likely to be a tight round for all local government.

]]> By: Chris Paul http://www.iainlindley.co.uk/2007/12/04/dont-say-you-werent-warned-john/#comment-452 Chris Paul Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:38:10 +0000 http://www.iainlindley.co.uk/2007/12/04/dont-say-you-werent-warned-john/#comment-452 Can you summarise the main "efficiency savings" in your latest alternative budget please Iain? A one page at a glance comparison would be grand for starters. The Lib Dem one here in Manchester is always worth a giggle and is put together and presented by a councillor who had to change jobs after 12 months gardening leave and who is always getting into scrapes. Interestingly it tends to promise things that they either don't do elsewhere or that come unstuck elsewhere. As the outgoing LD leader of Oldham said after losing his own seat and control in 2004 I think: "When in opposition you can say anything and do nothing. But when in power there are hard decisions to take and we weren't up to it." Or words to that effect. Birmingham's Lib-Con council of course got into a similar sort of budget problem - keeping to a budget. They blamed it on "too much rain" and "people living too long" which respectively reduced the takings at golf courses and crematoria. Blogged about it at the time. They are also of course selling every scrap of land they can find - including publically used pieces. Can you summarise the main “efficiency savings” in your latest alternative budget please Iain?

A one page at a glance comparison would be grand for starters.

The Lib Dem one here in Manchester is always worth a giggle and is put together and presented by a councillor who had to change jobs after 12 months gardening leave and who is always getting into scrapes. Interestingly it tends to promise things that they either don’t do elsewhere or that come unstuck elsewhere.

As the outgoing LD leader of Oldham said after losing his own seat and control in 2004 I think: “When in opposition you can say anything and do nothing. But when in power there are hard decisions to take and we weren’t up to it.”

Or words to that effect. Birmingham’s Lib-Con council of course got into a similar sort of budget problem - keeping to a budget. They blamed it on “too much rain” and “people living too long” which respectively reduced the takings at golf courses and crematoria.

Blogged about it at the time. They are also of course selling every scrap of land they can find - including publically used pieces.

]]> By: Joe oneill http://www.iainlindley.co.uk/2007/12/04/dont-say-you-werent-warned-john/#comment-449 Joe oneill Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:36:03 +0000 http://www.iainlindley.co.uk/2007/12/04/dont-say-you-werent-warned-john/#comment-449 Perhaps Cllr Merry will Fiddle with the salford philomonic,and watch Salford Burn. Yes i agree with your comments to a Degree,This had to come.I was allways led to belive the old saying of cutting your cloth. Possible we could ask for our £20million back or next time the China trip comes round we use Air miles? Stop putting out £2.8 million pounds on publicity. Who Knows one thing ian its not the opposition that as to say thats another fine mess you have got me in. joe Perhaps Cllr Merry will Fiddle with the salford philomonic,and watch Salford Burn. Yes i agree with your comments to a Degree,This had to come.I was allways led to belive the old saying of cutting your cloth. Possible we could ask for our £20million back or next time the China trip comes round we use Air miles? Stop putting out £2.8 million pounds on publicity. Who Knows one thing ian its not the opposition that as to say thats another fine mess you have got me in.

joe

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