...they can't stop wasting your cash can they!

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This time it's Leeds City Council:

Leeds City Council is set to take over the economic research and intelligence unit of axed regional development body Yorkshire Forward. Under a plan to be discussed by the Council’s Executive Board on Wednesday 7th September, the five members of Yorkshire Forward’s Chief Economist’s unit will be transferred to work for the Council at an annual cost of £343,000.

Wow! In these austere times the Council has found all that cash to take on an economic research unit. Presumably Leeds City Council aren't closing any libraries, shutting down any care homes, reducing the hours at any swimming pools or cutting the funding for any community groups?

But then it's a Labour Council - they'll need some help with economics!

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We really don't give a fig about voting, do we?

Yesterday there was a by-election in the Hyde Park & Woodhouse ward of Leeds City Council. The result was a gain by Labour from the Liberal Democrats. But that isn’t the point of this post.

This was a hard fought by-election – leaflets were delivered, doors were knocked, hordes of brainwashed students were marshalled to support the campaign, telephones were manned, tellers clustered round polling stations and loud-speakers blared through the day urging the good citizens of inner-city Leeds to exercise their voting rights.

And what happened?

A shade over 2200 folk cast their vote.

That is just 14.6% of the electorate.

Says a lot about the state of our democracy, don’t you think?

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