Does this Tory Council have any idea what it is doing?
I recall that last year the concessionary fares scheme 'shortfall’ was claimed to be up to £3.8 million, and I have the documents to prove it. Now they are saying it is £3 million – a difference of £800,000. Hardly chicken feed !
No wonder Government doesn’t meet all their demands if they can’t calculate the precise shortfall.
The doubling of Government specific grant for next year (not including the £1m plus they get anyway) – which is what has been awarded – is a result in most people’s book. But not to Island Tories who seem to think taxpayers are a bottomless pit.
Stop moaning IW Council about the claimed ’shortfall’ and just be pleased that you make some sort of contribution – probably a lot smaller than you now claim – to the highly popular concessionary fares scheme. Better than wasting it on other nonsense.
2 comments:
It's not only in this department that they don't know what they're doing, sadly. However, I was intrigued by the attack on you to which you referred in your last posting, the Liberal accusation that you seem to be a "door opener". Does this mean that the island's Liberals see no role whatever for councillors other than as tribal warriors? Whatever happened to working for the good of the island?
I shouldn't be surprised, I suppose: I can't even call to mind the name of the Liberal group leader, because they're so utterly irrelevant. I asked a friend the other day, who has always taken an interest in politics, if he could name one current Liberal councillor. He came up with Jill Wareham, after a few hugely heavy hints, but after that, zilch!
Geoff, what will this 'doubling' of the grant actually give the Island over and above what we get now? What do we get now?
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