[Eric]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

and any waste is expensive when there are areas of visible deprivation.

Money should be spent where it can do the most good.

If party politics were taken out of the arena of local government, then maybe, just maybe, more time would be spent 'doing' and less time would be spent mud slinging and name calling.....two pursuits which are childish and lame.

Exactly.