22 December (Part 2) - Who tells porkies?
As I have said many times before, Council finances are not my strong point so
Councillor Leaf’s long explanation of how Bexley is being hard done by by
Government again was not quite good enough for me. However I do have an
occasional correspondent who used to work in a Council Finance Department. Who better to ask?
Apparently the new source of funding replaces the old which is why you have
to look further than the Labour Government’s headline grant. It is as I suspected all
tied up with an assumed maximum Council Tax increase and my financial
correspondent sums it up by saying “there is no new money tree and Leaf [as
usual] is on the ball. The Labour story is simply absurd.”
That will do for me.