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Allegedly!

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or in some cases,if not in ossy, what he don't do.:D;)

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Aye your both right, just makes me so angry that we may have to pay extra in our tax just for him to pap on about Accy Web/Facebook in meetings.

He will know next time I spot him out and about coz he will have a mad woman running towards him trying to hit him with me handbag! ;)

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Heth, please give him a good hard slap for me..preferably in the cods!:)

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Remind me not to get on your wrong side :D

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Oh....I don't think you are in danger of that:)

There are very few folk to whom I would direct violence...he just happens to be the exception......just talking about him, makes my hackles rise.

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I doubt he will be on the outside fish market, prob sat inside the market hall polishing his medal and plaque!!! ;) oh and counting his money!!!

When I do see him I will deff give him a kick for you though!!! :D

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Okay, so let's sum up the suggestions put forward so far on Accy Web to meet the Council's savings target:-

a) Stop the lunchtime butties, saving , say, £5,000 a year,
b) Pay the illustrious Leader zilch, saving £43,000 a year,
c) Pawn the Leaders Medal, getting, say £50?, (is there VAT on that????)
d) Abolish Christmas in Hyndburn, saving £9,000,
e) Don't employ celebrity chefs, saving another £9,000,
f) BUT Reopen Peel Street Toilets, costing £10,000

A grand NET total of £56,050.

Job Done, and Everybody Happy.

Hold on, though. There is the little matter of a further £2,543,950 to be saved THIS YEAR alone, plus more next year.

Thinking Caps on again, it seems!

:confused::confused::confused:

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Only one problem there, you got a comma and three zeros too many :rolleyes:

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With thanks to a gentleman who is well acquainted with just how 'simple' it is.

Although I take your point, the rub comes from a council which is crying blue murder at the cuts being brought about and yet spending untold thousands on public events and private luxuries.

I have another list of spending by The Leader of the Council which I haven't been given the go ahead to release yet and whilst it isn't much in itself in the wider scheme of things it smacks on every level of being out of touch with how people feel.

I have several questions to be submitted to full council regarding spending, keep watching.

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You of all people should know that there are hundreds of savings to be made from what you termed 'box ticking' politics brought in by past governments but also many which are there just for symbolism in order to win meaningless awards that serve no function within the borough.

I don't go for symbolic gestures either but it seems, contrary to the LT article, that Cllr Britcliffe does.

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There is also all the other things that he spends money on that none of us know about isnt there??

COME ON PB do the right thing for once and give us a "honest" list??!!!










Darn I keep asking questions out loud but I know I wont get any answers........must stop it

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What was I saying?

Oh yes...

It's like waiting for buses.

Up pops one of the 'many people', when you least expect it.

The point, when in dire financial straits, is that every penny does count.

It's making a a start.

It's called not burying your head in the sand, and being defeatist.

It's the difference of what it means to be Btitish, versus the subservient, defeatist attitude of the French.

Nevermind our 'thinking caps'.

You should be wearing a little bonnet with a white feather pinned to it.

;)

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Have I changed nationality or have you got Jaysay's keyboard??? :eek:

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True, but it's also about showing some leadership qualities, that people would hopefully look up to, and appreciate it.

If there's no money for an apple and orange in this year's stocking, it doesn't go down too well with the neighbours, if you leave your kids home alone on Christmas Eve, and go for a knees-up down the local boozer.