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Originally Posted by jaysay
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
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I not sure which audit report you have reading,but the last few have been quite critical. There is a still a fair number of auditors recommendations that have still to be acted upon.
Graham was right about the success under Labour. The globe, which created 600 jobs. Previous to that the Globe had become a derelict building
You could also add the building up of the industrial estates, Huncoat and Altham being two of them.
The whole area of replacing unfit housing in the borough started under a labour council.
I am not suggesting that we didn't make mistakes, we did make mistakes. But we got a lot of things right as well.