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Originally Posted by andrewb
The budget is well scrutinised (and costed unlike some Labour budgets of past!). The money was only to be used for the website. I'm not making excuses. I also didn't say it was their fault. I said it wasn't JUST the council's fault. It's not the same as the scenario you suggest, as government knew what it was getting spent on, and how much, since they proposed it and offered the cash.
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Fair points, but without getting into the whole tedious 'budgets of the past' debate, someone in control at HBC should have stood up and had the balls to say that it was a waste of money.
I don't know the particular ins and outs of this incident but we're talking about over half a million pounds of our money being approved for a project that was obviously wildly overpriced to start with.
If you want to get political about it, the Tories have had control in Hyndburn for some time so it would have been they who had the deciding vote.
£591,000. That figure is probably somewhere near to what you will earn (after tax) in the rest of your working life, Andrew.