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Originally Posted by gynn
Item 1 on the agenda. The Budget.
You have inherited a potentially illegal budget, because it appears to contain savings that are a figment of someone's imagination. Reasonable questions that were asked at budget time were dismissed not just by the Cabinet, but also by the Scrutiny chairman who should have been asking them.
My advice is to get Miles to put an immediate block on all the Tory spend, spend, spend proposals, ask Management Team for an update on spending and savings, (by first thing Monday morning) and seek an early meeting with the external auditors to discuss the extent of the problem.
Otherwise the proverbial will hit the fan in 9 months time.
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Thanks for the advice. The full enormity of the work that lies ahead will become apparent over the next few weeks and this is something I look forward to tackling in an attempt at damage limitation.
Expect a bit of mudslinging from the Conservatives, I can't see them simply rolling over and keeping quiet.