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Originally Posted by Mancie
Not to sound patronising but you must have had an inkling about the shape of things.. this smacks of the Tories saying they never knew how bad the state of the country was in when they took over.. I hope you don't go down the same road of shame and blame.. I'd say that the voters in Hyndburn got fed up with the lying tories and don't need anymore spin.. tell the people as it is.. if you need to make cuts just tell people.
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Absolutely right, although I am not the person to make public statements on such things as presently I have neither the full facts or the authority. We knew there would be many unpaid bills in the bottom drawer but the full scale of things is only just coming out as a huge amount of the financial damage was only done within the past three months.
The public will be kept informed but for the moment the facts that should be forefront in your mind are that we had £2.4m in reserves, £2.7m in transitional funding and £2.8m of cuts to make this year alone.
Britcliffe has gone and spent £5.2m and claims to have left the council in great shape.
You work it out.