So at last night's Cabinet the Council decided to opt out of Ryde and Shanklin theatres, just like they opted out of providing any secondary schools last September. They call it withdrawing to just their 'core business'. I shudder to think what will be sloughed off next. Where will they stop washing their hands of local services ?
I reminded them of the traditions of the radical Tory of 100 years ago, Joseph Chamberlain - though I confess to confusing him at the meeting with his less meritorious eldest son Austen - who was a towering figure of the early days of local government in Birmingham before making a national name for himself as a Cabinet minister. Not for him core business and philistinism, but local government that "paved, assized, marketed, gas & watered and improved".
The Deputy Leader got my point, with a reference to Joseph's other political son - Neville - but I don't think the rest did as they persist with their Thatcherite/Cameronite dogma.
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