Council chief exec booed at cuts protest
HUNDREDS of people gathered outside County Hall to protest against proposed job cuts and changes to redundancy pay.
They waved placards with slogans such as 'Say no to Cutts' - in reference to council leader Kay Cutts - 'No ifs, no buts, no Cutts'.
Protesters also had Unison banners from the Notts County branch.
County council chief executive Mick Burrows was booed and greeted with shouts of "resign" when he made a speech in response to the protest.
He said: "Like every council across the country, we also face an increasing demand for our services from some of the most vulnerable people living in our communities, particularly older people and children at risk.
"This has all come together and means serious financial decisions must be made. Over the next three years we have to find £85m to balance our books.
"We need to reallocate £31m of our budget next year alone to meet demand for services.
"This means we need to make some difficult choices about services and the way we run the council."
Unions attending included Unison, GMB and NASUWT, the teachers' union.
Denise Smith, joint branch for Unison, said: "We need preserve the service we provide to the public.
"If that is what this council proposes to do, how can they do that by privatising all of the elderly persons' homes? That won't help the public of Notts."
Notts County Council sent letters to staff earlier this month announcing plans to change terms and conditions.
Among the proposals were changes to redundancy pay and reductions in payments to staff who use their own cars for council business.
Protesters were also coming out in force today after the Evening Post revealed contents of a leaked report by the County Council that detailed plans to make major cuts to services. This includes selling off residential care homes, axing 475 jobs and closing day care centres to make savings of £33m.









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by Michael Peterson, Wakefield.
Friday, November 06 2009, 1:15AM
“Now then, seeing as though I just did caption writer dude's job for him, I do believe its time to discuss financial reparations.
By my calculations (and my calculations are thus: 3 seconds to look at the picture, 2 seconds to read the caption underneath, 1 second to realise the caption was grammatically challenged, a further 5 seconds to work out in my head what the correct grammatical usage was, approximately 120 seconds to write out the post and post it (delays caused by slowness of internet connection, which was'nt my fault) this adds up to a total amount of 131 seconds - in minutes this works out at approx 2 mins 11 secs - so......whatever you earn per hour, subtract 2 mins 11 secs worth of dosh from your salary) is what you now owe me.
You can make the required payments to: Charlie Bronson, The Basement, Wakefield High-Security Prison, Wakefield.
Now chop, chop, there's a good lad.
P.S You can make the equivalent payment in jelly babies if you so require. Just dont stint me on the conversion process, or we'll have a bit of a problem.”
by FAO, The Evening Post Caption Writer Dude
Friday, November 06 2009, 1:01AM
“Note to the dude who writes the captions under the pictures on this site. Your grammar is awful, sir. I present you with this:
"A protester demonstrates about County Council cuts outside County Hall, West Bridgford"
I would like to propose that the proper grammatical usage should have been:
A protester demonstrates *AGAINST* County Council cuts outside County Hall, West Bridgford.
I may be unemployed, I may be mentally unstable, I may even have problems sleeping, but sir, I am significantly smarter than yaow.”
by Sigmund Deude, He's kung-fuing me, mam
Friday, November 06 2009, 12:46AM
“Might I suggest Dave, that your idea of moving to the equator is actually economically unsound? Let me expand further.
You say I could stand to lose 0.4kg of weight by moving to the equator. By moving such a distance, this would expend energy, which in turn, would burn calories that would remove said weight. By the time you reach the equator, I'm willing to bet that you would have burned off a lot more than 0.4kg in doing so. You would therfor stand to lose a lot more than 0.4kg by going to the equator. You could get on a treadmill, run the said required distance, be 0,4kg better off and eat the required amount of bags of jelly babies that would replenish lost energy. Of course in doing so, you would gain body fat, and would then be required to mount the treadmill again, ad infitum. This may sound like a bind to some, but for those who are unwilling, or unable to leave their homes, it would be an affordable compromise.”
by Screaming Lord Butch, Vote ?
Friday, November 06 2009, 12:33AM
“I'm with I, Notts. In fact, I think we should start a new party. I'm not exactly sure what that party should be called, but our first mantra should be:
The ? Party - Tough on MP's, Tough on the causes of MP's.
Furthermore, we should follow that up with actually defining what a bus plug actually is, as there appears to be confusion on the matter.
Is it a bus shaped plug? Is it a plug that a bus plugs into? Is it something ON a bus that you can plug stuff into? Is it (and this one's a bit "out there") actually nothing to do with transport at all but a different kind of bus, like the kind of bus in a computer that data travels along? Or, as an earlier esteemed colleague mentioned, is it a sexual device that was so-called because of an innocent typo?
Vote ? Party. We're going places, and we dont like MP's.
We do like buses though.”
by Dave, Notts
Thursday, November 05 2009, 10:29PM
“To lose weight, move to the equator
Gravity is about 0.5% stronger at the North and South poles than at the equator - so, if you weigh 80kg (about 176 pounds) at the pole, you would lose 0.4kg (about 14 oz) by moving to the equator.”
by MadBadger, The Sett
Thursday, November 05 2009, 9:54PM
“'John', surely you know how politics works?
"A spokesman for the DfT insisted that private letter to Coun Jackson was not meant as a threat to claw back the money."
In politics means that that is precisely how it was meant.”
by l, Notts
Thursday, November 05 2009, 9:49PM
“Cut the amount of MP's, cut the amount of expenses MP's can claim for, stop money being wasted on projects like the Millennium Dome...”
by John, Carlton
Thursday, November 05 2009, 9:45PM
“And what part of the next sentence.
"A spokesman for the DfT insisted that private letter to Coun Jackson was not meant as a threat to claw back the money."
dont you understand?
You prove my point that you cant read.”
by John, Carlton
Thursday, November 05 2009, 9:42PM
“I don't need to ask the DfT, Mad Badger. I can read and understand what they said, something that Mr Sensible finds a bit difficult.
So do you beleive in this mythical 7.5 million pay back too? Do you beleive the NEP are making the story up?
Where is your evidence to say the story is false, where are your sources?
Please feel free to take up the challenge I set Mr Sensible.”
by Mr M, Nottingham
Thursday, November 05 2009, 9:40PM
“Once again
How will you pay the country's debts with more money going out that coming in?”