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Originally Posted by Neil

I for one am very confused by all this.

Hopefully the leader of the council will come along soon and explain fully what is going on.

Now, now.

Don't get too silly.

When demands were made that the last leader of the council come on here, to communicate with the hoi polloi, you were always the first to jump up and down, and say 'Why should he?'.

We've already been told the new leader isn't going to join in the fun on here.

We'll just have to take comfort from the two posts on Accy Web, made by a serving leader of Hyndburn Borough Council.

Originally Posted by TheLeadersOffice HBC

Councillor Peter Britcliffe has issued the following statement regarding the Complaint against Councillor Graham Jones for putting forward and approving a scheme to improve his own street at an Area Council meeting in the Autumn of 2008:

"I thank those who are giving me credit for this complaint as Councillor Jones has often vexaciously tried to implicate me in similar situations. However, the first time I knew about this was when I read the Lancashire Evening Telegraph and was told I was getting the blame for this on the Web.

Councillor Jones knows as well as anybody how careful we all have to be so that we do not offend the standards set by his Government. At times it is like treading on egg shells, hence I have never been able to propose Hanging Baskets or Christmas Decorations for the Infant Street area where I have a business interest. It also precluded me from taking part in the Pennine Sq/Peel St development competition as if I had I am quite sure Councillor Jones would have been one of the first to make a complaint. So even though it is Spring, he really should not bleat like a lamb when someone decides to play him at his own game."

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...tml#post701192

Originally Posted by TheLeadersOffice HBC

In 2008/09, the Council's budget was £15,097. This year it will be £15,427. This is an increase in our spend of only 2.2%. The reason why our precept is to increase by 4.95% is because Government funding to the Council has only been increased by 1.5% and the rest of the money has to be found from the local taxpayer. If the Government had given us the amount it has claimed in the national press, it would have been possible to set a zero percent increase this year in Hyndburn.

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These are the facts, you can now argue over them as much as you wish but it won't alter the figures.

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...tml#post691676