Normal service is resumed
Having returned fresh and kempt, from a winter holiday, alas! It seems that Plus ca change, plus c'est les meme chose!
After praising Craven district council for not increasing council tax, it appears that they are taking no less than £1,000,000 or around 1/3 of what council tax givers pay each year, from reserves, and yet that is only enabling a standstill!
Presumably if it had not been for that, then a 33% increase in tax would have been needed!
However even Craven district council's ability to waste money has been exceeded of late by that unelected and spendthrift quango North Yorkshire police authority.
This bunch of highly rewarded folk are rightly criticized by the Audit Commission and the local M.P. A quick scan of Google on NYPA will reveal all that they have been up to, a list of some considerable length.
However Paakwa, conscious that he must strive for fairness above all, has sought the views of the populace at large.
In this, the first of the Paakwa reports, the viewpoint of an ordinary person is sought regarding the antics of the above mentioned police authority.
There are some who may think that Miss. Grindepoor-Harshly bears an uncanny resemblance to another person, but with umpteen billions crawling on the face of this earth, it would be surprising indeed if she did not resemble, in superficial areas, another human being.
Here are two links to the video of the Paakwa report.
This first one is a link for those with high speed connections, and is:
Link to high speed connection
And here's a link to a Google connection:
Paakwa on Google
Labels: Gimmee gimmee gimmee.
posted by Paakwa at
6:12 PM
2 Comments:
Paakwa wants to stop messing around with all this rubbish about selling Council Houses for £5,000 (the sales figure is determined by a stock transfer model produced by the Government and universally used by all Councils !!). There are real issues e.g the capitalisation of salaries to avoid a massive overspend that I'm sure the auditors might not agree with.
Thanks for the mail anonymous, and I appreciate what you write re. stock transfer model BUT CDC could have had a 'clawback' mechanism in place, thereby regaining some of the profit made when the houses were sold at a large gain.
They could also have engaged in a selling move before transfer, at considerably more than £5k/house there might have been very many takers!
However, that's in the past. As the "Normal service is resumed" article concerns North Yorkshire police authority, are you hinting that salaries have been capitalised for the police?
Or for the housing association?
Or for CDC?
CDC have stated that salaries are not costed for any capital projects such as the 'Renaissance Affair' so that would indeed be interesting!
Please expand on your comment a little - anonymity is assured, and if you don't want your comment/s publishing you have only to say.
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