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Originally Posted by garinda
Er...so, let's see if we've got this riight.
The Daily Telegraph newspaper, which ran the story in the first instance, published the article that stated that Hyndbrurn had the most expensive Council Tax in in the county, and hadn't arrived at that findings by working it out incorrectly?
Which meant what they printed was all perfectly true, and therefore not libellous.
Which was therefore the reason you neither suedthem, nor launched a campaign against this most of conservative of newspapers, branding them as liars, and making yourself a cause célèbre, and someone prepared to publicly take on injustice and lies?
All as clear as mud.
As long as the mud is made up of something you'd rather not see as being mud...or even acknowledge that mud sticks.
It's all so 'complex', if you're a bit dim, like myself.
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There's quite a difference between working things out wrong and misleading the people of Hyndburn. If you want to play a populist game and just continue screaming 'BUT THE NEWSPAPER SAID SO SIR!!!!' in the face of overwhelming information to the contrary, then continue. I thought better of you. I'd have thought when another source was published in front of you, of how the figures were calculated, you'd realise it's nonsense that we have the most expensive council tax.
Well seems you have no idea where to stand, since you flip flopped into saying we don't have the most expensive council tax this year, yet if you worked it out the way the papers did last year, you'd come to the same conclusion as last year. Make your mind up.
You're just backed into a corner of supporting Graham because you think Britcliffe has wasted money on other projects. I suppose the good thing about being truly independent is the ability to praise when something good is done, like low council tax, this year and last, far below the national average increase over the last 10 years. Never mind though, go and hide in your newspaper headlines, I'm sure its comforting, if totally blinkered.