Six week ago the council contracts started work on flats in the Molyneux Drive area. They are overdue, the workmanship non-existent and the flat holders have to be thankful for shoddy jobs at EU cum government cum their own money.
Lieber now have a new leader on the council and I hear more sense out of Hamid Karzai than any local councillor.
Even the ubiquitous Kensington Clanger has disappeared from local politics. Well, that's one good thing...
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War of words over council cash crisis
Blackpool Council boss Peter Callow will tonight go head-to-head with opposition leader Simon Blackburn over plans to use financial experts Price Waterhouse Coopers after The Gazette revealed the London-based consultants had been brought in to help balance the books.
It is feared if "drastic action" is not taken the authority could lose its £6m cash reserves within a year.
Labour leader Coun Blackburn has "vigorously opposed" the plan saying in-house auditors at the council should be able to do the same job cheaper.
"Blackpool South MP Gordon Marsden, himself a front-bench opposition MP, agrees with me, just a pity Coun Blackburn doesn't."
Coun Blackburn added: "Why do we need a London-based consultants to tell us how to do the job our department has been doing very well for decades?
"Cuts have to be made and I realise this but surely by bringing in auditors they are needlessly spending money.Read more at www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk
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