This local authority is in debt,no surprise of course,every council has stacked up the overdraft on vanity projects and assorted rubbish.. but
Woking is in debt to the tune of over two billion pounds.
Two billion.
Who has oversight of this lunacy?
Why is everything rubber stamped by paper shuffling cunts ?
Why the fuck is every last corner of govt bureaucracy completely out of control?
Two cunting billion.
That’s a whole new carriage on the Gravy Train,all aboard..
Nominated by : Unkle Terry
Pretty much every council is bankrupt.. that’s what comes of giving clueless cunts power..
Theses people can’t balance a cheque book..
I read last week about a london deputy mayor only 20, can’t get a entry level job in McDonald’s.
But is in charge of a 100 million budget.. what could wrong….
Work doesn’t pay, time to take to the streets and kick people to fuck.. first stop parliament..
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For every clueless councillor, you can bet there’s one that is far from stupid.
Hence why council contracts always seem to go to the highest bidder.
If you play it right, it’s a world of brown envelopes and free holiday villas in Spain.
And when you get found out, simply resign and offer your services to another council in a different area.
Repeat until retirement.
Morning, Barry.
Morning all.
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First class summation FM.
Nowt must stop the Gravy Train.
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I was watching a programme about Thailand, which is a place that I have visited lots of times, the last being about 25 year’s ago.
I remember Bangkok as being a crowded and run down city with terrible traffic problems.
It’s always been illegal to beg in Thailand, but you would be approached by many scroungers trying to sell you worthless shit to get round the begging laws.
Poor people would cook and sell food from makeshift barbecues on the pavements.
Seeing the place now, it’s a modern, clean city.
Bright lights, modern cars and successful businesses.
The same goes for the Maldives.
When I first went to the islands over 40 year’s ago, nobody had heard of them.
A full day of travelling with multiple transit stops followed by a 2 hour sail boat journey to one of the only four islands that adventurous tourists went to.
Powered by diesel generators with only sea water to shower in, the islands were extremely basic.
The Maldives is all 5 star now with hundreds of tourist islands.
I could tell you about Manilla and a few of the Malaysian islands.
I have always taken holidays in places off the beaten track.
But when I see these places now, I can understand where all the tourist money and investments has gone.
The transformations are incredible.
Then you look at Europe and especially at the UK.
These are places where the people are taxed beyond belief.
They have enormous economies.
But instead of moving forward and improving the countries, they have all regressed.
Governments, councils and all public bodies have no fucking idea how to run their finances.
London, Paris, Rome.
These beautiful cities are nothing more than shit holes.
They have gone back in time and now resemble north African slums.
So sad.
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That timeline reads like the UK in microcosm.
Overpaid, overpromoted public sector fuckwits for whom running the proverbial whelk stall would be beyond their competence.
Borrowing money on someone else’s account then blowing it like a drunken sailor on shore leave.
Surely an obvious case of malfeasance in public office.
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I’m anxious not to appear discriminatory in my cunting ( of course),so it’s only fair to mention that Woking is only running in third place for local govt debt piles..
The Almighty Lord Khan is sat atop £19 billion,way ahead of his rivals.
Birmingham trails way behind with a poxy £4 billion,followed by Leeds and Woking with over £2 billion apiece.
This for shit services,rampant pakis and potholes.
Fuck off,Oven.
Good morning.
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Fear not. Councillor Burnham has a two part solution to this problem.
1. Give more powers to local authorities.
2. Increase council tax at ten times the rate of inflation when it invariably goes pear shaped.
Fucking brilliant!
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NB. Blame for council tax rises in a labour borough is to be apportioned to the previous non labour administration.
If there has been no non labour administration in recent or living memory, blame Margaret Thatcher.
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In 1979 FMC, Margaret Thatcher inherited a public sector deficit of around 5%. (If only we had such today! Dream on.) By 1987/88 the deficit had been turned into a surplus.
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Woking District Council Debt £2,000,000,000 = £20,000 per person
UK National Debt £3,000,000,000,000 = £45,000 per person
(excluding unfunded state and off-balance sheet liabilities).
Almost all money borrowed today by the Government goes to pay the interest on existing borrowings. In short, the economics of the sink estate.
The day of reckoning is coming and it’s going to be bloody.
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Might be wise to get some Bitcoin allocation, GT…
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Bins emptied every 3 weeks, binmen don’t remember what property it belongs at so leave it in a 100 yard radius, pavements with trip hazards that resemble crazy paving, potholes straight from the battle of the somme,town hall like fort Knox if you are thinking of complaining, cycle lanes with barely a cyclist on them,HMO housing growing like Japanese knotweed, etc…2 billion in debt at woe-king but it’s a certainty that there will still be countless, pointless meetings in the HQ every day with more costly decisions that’ll benefit absolutely nobody… ‘councillor khan your proposal of a new mosque has been approved with unfortunately a 25% cut in other services for the project’ 😩
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Labour/Tory/Lib-Dem local council leader = Shadow eu Gauleiter.
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The answer is simple
Double the council tax (obviously only those who are working and not on a UC top up), so that will be less than half the households. Like everything else, who can we tax to pay more benefits.
The proposed mansion tax started at £2 million, now proposing 1.5 million, god help us after the budget.
The energy price cap expected to rocket in Jan, not to worry the government will protect the most vulnerable (aka idle benefit cunts and pension credit cunts)
Wibble.
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i really struggle to find anything in the UK now that is better than it was 30 or 30 plus years ago.
schools, hospitals,roads, airliines, customer service, doctors, dentists, councils, the general public, litter, tv, news, taxes, opportunities.
i could go on.
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Very good point CC. Have spent sometime thinking about this and have concluded that the only concrete improvements I can see that have made my life less stressful is, my relatively recent compound bows are better than my early ones and my 2020 595 Abarth is a lot quicker than it should be. No dentist taking patients in a 40 mile radius since 2010 (NHS) Trying to actually see the doctor is a fucking campaign. Every thing appears to be fucked, all be sorted when HS2 is up and running and of course our glorious re joining of the eu if anyone left after war with Russia oh forgot plenty peacefuls and other ethnics who will be milling around the destroyed benefits offices. To make matters worse the cunt Lenny Henry has appeared on my tv and I can’t find the controller so have had to get up and pull the plug. Fuck me must be national Shite Day (half man half biscuit)
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Rejoining the eu? Leave in name only under the eu Brexit arrangement.
Look at the wonderful world the eu has created for us, overrun with low IQ third world filth, trillions in debt, taxed to death, forced into the net zero con and manufacturing relocated to China with resulting overpriced and low quality rubbish.
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20 or 30 odd years ago. sorry
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I’m going to play devil’s advocate here… The main culprit is actually central government, which endlessly churns out mountains of regulation, making all activities and things more tiresome, shit and expensive. And Westminster is unbelievably profligate. Look at the state of the MOD and its disastrous procurement.
Local governments tend to be more sensible with money believe it or not and are at the receiving end of all these laws, policies and targets. Yes, some of them are loony left councils run by total numpties, and they all probably make mistakes from time to time, but a lot of them are sensible enough. Emptying the bins, maintaining the highway, running the schools, etc. Stuff people actually need, but set against all kinds of burdensome requirements, which they will be JR’d or otherwise dragged over the coals for not following.
They get put in special measures if they don’t perform in areas like planning, social services, education, but the goalposts are constantly moving and getting more strict. The central government grants never increase enough to pay for all the expectations. They need more staff to manage it all but they are often not available or very expensive. They try to build anything or allow others to do so and there will be thousands of complaints from the many nutty residents and always the risk of JR. Plus the crippling effects of inflation, mainly caused by the Bank of England and HMT.
It isn’t easy for them to cut council taxes without cutting services that most of us actually need or failing in some other expensive way. I’d rather cut central government and its numerous insane activities and have better, well funded local government that focuses on the basics and is held to account locally. Leave the rest to the private sector or go without.
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O/T but relevant to the topic of indebtedness and the state of the Nation –
There’s an article by some scribbler in today’s Torygraph entitled:
‘People don’t realise how poor, backward and irrelevant Britain has become’
Oh I think those of us on IsAC realise mate.
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@geordie… can’t imagine the writer has actually witnessed this backwards/irrelevance from his soya milk latte & avocado on sourdough world, probably watched u tube or x for his info…these hacks need a week on a sink estate for proper proof of how backwards a lot of the UK is…as for irrelevance on the 🌎 stage that’s a given with the last assortment of ‘leaders’ we’ve endured and the total capitulation on immigration… welcome to our nightmare 💀
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Fucking Borough Councils are only responsible for allotments and bins, how the fuck can they get so far into debt?
Oh, I know, Woking Council is probably full of Lib Dems busy helping the community by forming public/private partnerships to produce locally sourced yogurt and sandals for immies. They will also be banning plastic carrier bags in order to save the planet.
Ed Davy is a cunt.
Good morning, everyone.
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That should be ‘Fucking District Councils’ obvs.
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I thought ‘Woke-king’ was that jug eared savage-appeasing shite-talking risible cunt that features on most Isacers banknotes …
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