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Originally Posted by Robert Owen
I am not quite sure what you mean by a budget deficit. In local government finance, budgets have to balance. It's a legal requirement. Also the minimum amount of balances any council carries is set independently.
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Lets put it this way Bernard the coffers weren't exactly overflowing with milk and honey were they, after the cock up with scraping the works department and using none existent rebates, since them they only way was up which has been document by the audit commision. It really speaks a lot about the Labour council from 1986 to 2000 does't those great achievers as Jones keeps telling us, they only thing that kept Labour in control was an unpopular Toy Government not a well run Labour council, which was demonstrated by the fact that from 1997 to 2000 (three elections) turned a 44 to 3 Labour Council to loosing control to the Tories