WE are being warned, which supposedly makes it less painful when it eventually happens, that councils have not run their finances very well and we are going to have a substantial increase in what we are legally forced to pay. 

Roads all pitted with car damaging potholes, closing waste disposable centres, cut backs on dustbin collections, roadside grass cutting only done at harvest time, to name just a few that all we will can't help noticing. But I wonder if it is time, we, the public, got to have a good look at the council wages bill and just how many desk bound staff are drawing exorbitant salaries, how many CEOs have managed to find a comfortable niche.

It seems that recent investigations in to our NHS have uncovered vast amounts of waste, the use of costly agency staff, we won't mention the increase in salaries that the Government have sneaked in while our doctors are struggling to survive or the outdated Lords £350 a day for popping in for a snooze.

You have to wonder where it is all going to end?

Graeme Hewitt 

The Vale

Oakley

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