“pretty ironic that the day after the £100m gap is announced that I am sent a full colour booklet from Notts County Council for all its staff called "Front line" which is about nothing in particular, it was sent through the post to, even more interesting is I'm no longer work there; I was made redundant from there last month.
Maybe the Nottingham Post would like to put in a FOI to find the full cost of design, print and postage costs that this has cost? and to how many staff they posted it to that don't even work there any more!”

“It looks as if the Conservatives have seriously mismanaged matters here – both cuts to vital services and a big hole in the finances. I bet we still get the usual bafoons try to blame the tram!”

“£100m shortfall can only mean that elderly and disabled people will be turfed out of their care homes and other vital services cut.
Have the council got the £40m of taxpayers money back which they invested in Icelandic banks.
You can bet that if Labour get back in council tax will sore.
K.Cutts cut councillors salaries and expenses and other perks.
But who cares as long as Collins and Chapman have their "tram set to play with".
That is all you hear about now”

“they're still wasting money there - some staff there are given v good salaries and spend more than half they're time pretending to work from home; consultants are still being paid rather than giving the work to people in house, the reception area at county hall is still being revamped, i could go on and on”

“If I were Alan Rhodes, I'd be very careful what I'd say about this. I think we can take it as a given that Labour will take control next year given the actions of the Tories and their general poor attitude towards communicating a genuine message since 2009.

However, have no illusions, it will then be THEY who then have to carry on with the cuts of Cutts, unless they want to whap council tax up by ridiculous levels, in which case, they'll be booted back out in 2017 for a much longer time.

And even if Labour get back in nationally in 2015, unless they can close all the tax loopholes etc and get YoY GDP growth of 10%+ to close the deficit gap, these lower levels of funding to local authorities will continue.

This is one of those scenarios where, simply put, barring a ground up overhaul of how our economy functions, no-one will win. If we allow corporate greed in the private sector to continue unabated and dictate policy, and not do anything about the nested HR and finance empires in the public sector, we're well and truly stuffed.”

“Remember not so long ago they decided that they'd like a new Resturant at County Hall, and spent £250,000. Then decided they didn't really like the new one, so spent a few more thousands of pounds making alterations to it.”

“WHAT A JOKE! WHAT A JOKE!!!”

“The major problem with the tory obsession with privatisation is private sector companies expect to be paid for the services they provide. Whether there may or may not be a saving by privatisation is always dubious on a like for like basis. The private sector company expects to make a profit and be paid for doing work so any savings over the council doing the work are not likely to very great plus the council may have to employ more staff to ensure contractors actually do what they are supposed to. The county council seem to be getting worse financially the more cuts they make or have they been misleading ratepayers? Having sold care homes for about 10% of what they cost to build where is the saving? Had the loans to build and equip the homes been paid back? We cannot have potholes repaired but we can have new street lights. They have spent millions building new depots and yet want to hand them over to private contractors, why? Does Kay actually have a clue?”

“all this money spent on high salaries for top exucitives and consultants and they still could'nt orgonise a pi** up in a brewery.”

“Sounds like a good idea, Arno_Vale.

All these cuts, and yet a £100 million funding gap. Where has it gone so wrong?”