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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2024 22:48:28 GMT
Here is why local councils are short of money. "THE cost of transporting Bradford pupils from their homes to school via taxi costs almost £54,000 a day – and “shows no sign of reducing.”'..and its all over the country  the more money you give local Government the more ways they will come up with to waste it...  So it's all to do with taxis and nothing to do with cuts? 🤔 While I know this is just another TTL spam troll thread designed to sling insults around whilst ignoring key questions, I will say this. They have a budget and the only goal is to increase that budget. Literally throwing money away is encouraged to sustain or even increase that budget the next time around. It's just one of many problems with the public sector - a good service isn't as financially rewarding as a wastefully bad service. |
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Post by Red Rackham on Apr 30, 2024 23:07:16 GMT
Here is why local councils are short of money. "THE cost of transporting Bradford pupils from their homes to school via taxi costs almost £54,000 a day – and “shows no sign of reducing.”'..and its all over the country I seem to remember there was a scandal about this a few years ago. Muslim councilors were giving very generous contracts to taxi driving cousins who were costing councils an absolute fortune. But I have to say, is anyone surprised nothing has changed? To raise so much as a quizzical eyebrow would be seen as 'Islamophobic', and that would never do. |
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Post by Pacifico on May 1, 2024 6:43:45 GMT
The cost in Bradford has doubled in the past 5 years - I know we have had inflation but taxi fares have not doubled, it is just Councils squandering money yet again. If councils took a more responsible view about taxpayers money they would not need to keep claiming poverty. Come on Pacifico, you're better than that. Compare the cuts to local government to the increase in taxi fares. If you honestly think that it's taxi fares that's bankrupting councils, I really don't think there's any point in continuing the conversation. That's just bizarre. Squandering money is what is bankrupting councils,. OK - forget taxis, lets look at roads. Hampshire spent £20 Million on turning a 2 lane roundabout into a 3 lane roundabout in Basingstoke. There is simply no concept of financial responsibility on local government. |
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Post by Totheleft on May 1, 2024 7:02:23 GMT
Come on Pacifico, you're better than that. Compare the cuts to local government to the increase in taxi fares. If you honestly think that it's taxi fares that's bankrupting councils, I really don't think there's any point in continuing the conversation. That's just bizarre. Squandering money is what is bankrupting councils,. OK - forget taxis, lets look at roads. Hampshire spent £20 Million on turning a 2 lane roundabout into a 3 lane roundabout in Basingstoke. There is simply no concept of financial responsibility on local government. Unfortunately local Government's have to spend all there budget even on wasted projects or they won't receive departmental budgets . It's a catch 22 Dammed if you do or Dammed if you Don't |
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Post by Dogburger on May 1, 2024 7:27:47 GMT
The cost in Bradford has doubled in the past 5 years - I know we have had inflation but taxi fares have not doubled, it is just Councils squandering money yet again. If councils took a more responsible view about taxpayers money they would not need to keep claiming poverty. Come on Pacifico, you're better than that. Compare the cuts to local government to the increase in taxi fares. If you honestly think that it's taxi fares that's bankrupting councils, I really don't think there's any point in continuing the conversation. That's just bizarre. Giving money away to whoever is part of the problem ,taxi drivers included. My local guys tell me they wouldn't do the job , that there is not enough money in it without the 'school runs '. So from that you can take they are being paid over the odds for those journeys . Mrs is contracted to the local council in the home maintenance department sorting out the contractors that do the repairs . If you could see the waste that goes on you would be standing outside the town hall with pitch forks . And one end of the waste spectrum you have the time wasters who claim work needs doing that doesn't or they could do themselves . At the other end you have a broken tile that could be replaced in two minutes off a ladder .But no it needs a survey , health and safety and risk assessment reports , a scaffolding erected ,letters sent to neighbours ,sky dishes removed and re-fixed , safe area fenced off ,parking restrictions and finally a guy to go up the ladder on the scaffold and replace the tile . The difference in cost is around £4000 , that's just one job of hundreds she does every week , as they say in the USA , do the math . |
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Post by Fairsociety on May 1, 2024 7:33:20 GMT
Come on Pacifico, you're better than that. Compare the cuts to local government to the increase in taxi fares. If you honestly think that it's taxi fares that's bankrupting councils, I really don't think there's any point in continuing the conversation. That's just bizarre. Squandering money is what is bankrupting councils,. OK - forget taxis, lets look at roads. Hampshire spent £20 Million on turning a 2 lane roundabout into a 3 lane roundabout in Basingstoke. There is simply no concept of financial responsibility on local government. And this is even before Labour get in to power, nearly every Council in the country that is bankrupt is a Labour run Council, how much more proof do people need to tell them that Labour will bankrupt the whole country, or put it another way would you put your savings in to a bank that has gone bankrupt. tax payers are putting their money in to bankrupt Labour councils up and down the country. |
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Post by andrewbrown on May 1, 2024 8:19:53 GMT
Come on Pacifico, you're better than that. Compare the cuts to local government to the increase in taxi fares. If you honestly think that it's taxi fares that's bankrupting councils, I really don't think there's any point in continuing the conversation. That's just bizarre. Giving money away to whoever is part of the problem ,taxi drivers included. My local guys tell me they wouldn't do the job , that there is not enough money in it without the 'school runs '. So from that you can take they are being paid over the odds for those journeys . Mrs is contracted to the local council in the home maintenance department sorting out the contractors that do the repairs . If you could see the waste that goes on you would be standing outside the town hall with pitch forks . And one end of the waste spectrum you have the time wasters who claim work needs doing that doesn't or they could do themselves . At the other end you have a broken tile that could be replaced in two minutes off a ladder .But no it needs a survey , health and safety and risk assessment reports , a scaffolding erected ,letters sent to neighbours ,sky dishes removed and re-fixed , safe area fenced off ,parking restrictions and finally a guy to go up the ladder on the scaffold and replace the tile . The difference in cost is around £4000 , that's just one job of hundreds she does every week , as they say in the USA , do the math . Whilst it's true that local government is unnecessarily beaurocratic, the same is also true of central government. You give me taxi driver mates, I raise you PPE mates. I don't know what the answer to that is, but I don't think that it's anything to do with political ideology. |
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Post by Fairsociety on May 1, 2024 8:28:57 GMT
Giving money away to whoever is part of the problem ,taxi drivers included. My local guys tell me they wouldn't do the job , that there is not enough money in it without the 'school runs '. So from that you can take they are being paid over the odds for those journeys . Mrs is contracted to the local council in the home maintenance department sorting out the contractors that do the repairs . If you could see the waste that goes on you would be standing outside the town hall with pitch forks . And one end of the waste spectrum you have the time wasters who claim work needs doing that doesn't or they could do themselves . At the other end you have a broken tile that could be replaced in two minutes off a ladder .But no it needs a survey , health and safety and risk assessment reports , a scaffolding erected ,letters sent to neighbours ,sky dishes removed and re-fixed , safe area fenced off ,parking restrictions and finally a guy to go up the ladder on the scaffold and replace the tile . The difference in cost is around £4000 , that's just one job of hundreds she does every week , as they say in the USA , do the math . Whilst it's true that local government is unnecessarily beaurocratic, the same is also true of central government. You give me taxi driver mates, I raise you PPE mates. I don't know what the answer to that is, but I don't think that it's anything to do with political ideology. It's the mindset of people in charge of spending tax payers money, they look on it like it's FREEEEEE money, if they looked after it like they look after their own personal money and finances most of this wouldn't be happening.
It's about time a dedicated tax payers department was set up, and every single Council has to get through that department before they can spend a single penny of tax payers money, there is no accountability, most of these bankrupt Councils can't explain or have any paper trail as to where vasts amounts of money have 'vanished', it simply isn't good enough, if they can't explain where they money has gone just dial 999, it's a matter for the police.
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Post by Pacifico on May 1, 2024 10:31:59 GMT
There is a town near me where the council has just spent tens of thousands of pounds painting a cycle lane on either side of the road. This cycle lane is about 100 meters long - the thing is that it doesn't go the full length of the road. You drive down the road and the bike lane suddenly starts - 100m further on it suddenly stops.
Totally pointless and more waste in local government
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Post by Totheleft on May 1, 2024 10:46:44 GMT
There is a town near me where the council has just spent tens of thousands of pounds painting a cycle lane on either side of the road. This cycle lane is about 100 meters long - the thing is that it doesn't go the full length of the road. You drive down the road and the bike lane suddenly starts - 100m further on it suddenly stops. Totally pointless and more waste in local government Like I said council departments have to spend on wasteful projects to make sure they have no money left in the kitty to receive Government's funding . It is a catch 22 Damned if you Do Dammed if you Don't. It's the way it is . |
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Post by piglet on May 1, 2024 10:55:57 GMT
The richer a society becomes the more corrupt it becomes. Who would say no to dipping your bread into the gravy if you could? Everyone else is. As they say, the most dangerous person in the world is an honest one, there isnt one, abuse is universal, including the highest levels of government, there is no debate about whats right and whats wrong.
Many years ago i was asked what was up, my mileage was low, others had significantly more, i was showing others up. I was of course being honest.
Can you cast the first stone? I wonder.
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Post by Fairsociety on May 1, 2024 11:18:16 GMT
There is a town near me where the council has just spent tens of thousands of pounds painting a cycle lane on either side of the road. This cycle lane is about 100 meters long - the thing is that it doesn't go the full length of the road. You drive down the road and the bike lane suddenly starts - 100m further on it suddenly stops. Totally pointless and more waste in local government It's a well known fact these Councilors keep it in the family, all making up stupid things like that^^ so they can give the contract to one of their family members at a vast over inflated price, they are all at it. |
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Post by Dogburger on May 1, 2024 11:20:14 GMT
The richer a society becomes the more corrupt it becomes. Who would say no to dipping your bread into the gravy if you could? Everyone else is. As they say, the most dangerous person in the world is an honest one, there isnt one, abuse is universal, including the highest levels of government, there is no debate about whats right and whats wrong. Many years ago i was asked what was up, my mileage was low, others had significantly more, i was showing others up. I was of course being honest. Can you cast the first stone? I wonder. Reminds me of the time the company I worked for gave out diesel cards for all the vans . One of the designated petrol stations was almost exclusively used as they allowed other stuff , cigs , food , cans of beer to be put on the card . Of course some of the lads didn't screw their loaf got greedy and what for most of the lads was a free packet of cigs came to an end . |
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