"Are You F***ing Kidding Me?!" Irate Julia Hartley-Brewer SLAMS Councils For Wasting Money

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  • Опубликовано: 24 янв 2024
  • TalkTV's Julia Hartley-Brewer furiously reacts after head of campaigns at the Taxpayers Alliance Elliot Keck tells her councils supposedly spend £350,000 on an awards ceremony in London.
    It comes after England's local authorities will receive a £600m funding boost from the government following recent warnings of further bankruptcies.
    Communities Secretary Michael Gove said they would share £500m to help fund children's and adult social care.
    In December, he announced a total of £64bn would be made available to councils for 2024-25 but earlier this week, more than 40 Tory MPs signed a letter urging Rishi Sunak to increase that to avert major cuts.
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Комментарии • 714

  • @63mckenzie
    @63mckenzie 5 месяцев назад +262

    As an ex-council employee. I can tell you things are 100 times worse than you could imagine.

    • @spud7823
      @spud7823 5 месяцев назад +22

      👍Can believe that.

    • @Beatlefan67
      @Beatlefan67 5 месяцев назад +38

      As someone who did a lot of work and supplied kit to a council, I can tell you that they are corrupt as hell. My company eventually lost to the good old nepotism to a company that belonged to the uncle of the new procurement manager. They paid way over the odds for inferior-quality goods. Appalling.

    • @kenhickford6581
      @kenhickford6581 5 месяцев назад +25

      Ditto, as an ex council Principle Officer of 21 years in a North London Council, people don't know the half of it!

    • @spud7823
      @spud7823 5 месяцев назад

      @@kenhickford6581 it's become a massive quango, and we got 22 unitary authorities in Wales, all sucking off the teat, we had a small borough council when I was younger, they were effective and everything was being put back into the community, it's appalling the way things are going.

    • @Titus9508
      @Titus9508 5 месяцев назад +6

      27 years working for a large Council and learnt only one thing. Year on year the workload increases and funding decreases.

  • @mikep2896
    @mikep2896 5 месяцев назад +372

    Corrupt, wasteful, incompetent councils. Oh and overpaid.

    • @spud7823
      @spud7823 5 месяцев назад +3

      😮You sussed them out.

    • @StormmyStormmy
      @StormmyStormmy 5 месяцев назад +8

      I found out that the council worker’s pension are very generous, a large amount of community charge goes towards it, no wonder the money has run out.

    • @spud7823
      @spud7823 5 месяцев назад +11

      @@StormmyStormmy they should pay their own pensions, it's only a job like everyone else has to do.

    • @OnlineEnglish-wl5rp
      @OnlineEnglish-wl5rp 5 месяцев назад +6

      The Tories will always wheel out these excuses but it's always different for their criminal friends in the City!

    • @bonglandgreg
      @bonglandgreg 5 месяцев назад

      Look at the "council manager's". Unelected council leaders who control the entire operating system of the council. Basically, sidestepping councilors. Then look at wages of said managers. Then look at their credentials. The one that pops up is "c0mm0n perpes", misspelled for censorship reasons.

  • @hellsbells7271
    @hellsbells7271 5 месяцев назад +378

    They're wasting millions, so to be honest, they all should be investigated and every penny should be accounted for.
    How on earth can they be just given more millions without some sort of check on what the hell they're doing with that money.
    That's absolutely disgusting.

    • @RollcageHiggins
      @RollcageHiggins 5 месяцев назад

      The money is going to finance illegal immigration

    • @rodneyfungus8249
      @rodneyfungus8249 5 месяцев назад +4

      Every penny is accounted for - they are legally required to produce audited accounts based on IFRS.
      They may well be misspending money, but it is accounted for - you can look at their published accounts online.
      Some very silly comments on RUclips.

    • @flossycee1012
      @flossycee1012 5 месяцев назад +9

      Including yours

    • @hellsbells7271
      @hellsbells7271 5 месяцев назад +9

      @@flossycee1012 I agree, that's why I said " they all " should be investigated.

    • @Mr.SLovesTheSacredHeartofJesus
      @Mr.SLovesTheSacredHeartofJesus 5 месяцев назад +18

      I fully agree. Strict laws need to be passed, as to what taxpayers money can/cannot be spent on. This isn't rocket science.

  • @peterfox9468
    @peterfox9468 5 месяцев назад +18

    700,000 migrant in 2023 alone. This is costing us millions per day. it's a national disgrace. Vote Reform.

  • @peterd6585
    @peterd6585 5 месяцев назад +150

    Isn’t it interesting that all these councils are going bankrupt due to bad mismanagement and not one council leader or department leader has got the sack!!! We are all mugs

    • @jimjones-bk2is
      @jimjones-bk2is 5 месяцев назад +5

      They are elected, aren't they? They can either resign, or be unelected.

    • @robwillcox2307
      @robwillcox2307 5 месяцев назад +4

      Councillors are but not how many they employ.

    • @janyb1907
      @janyb1907 5 месяцев назад +4

      Or been arrested

    • @alfching2499
      @alfching2499 4 месяца назад

      @@jimjones-bk2is I've never voted for one never,why would I do that

  • @markellis796
    @markellis796 5 месяцев назад +182

    £650m Thurrock council invested in a solar company and lost the lot, no council officer was held accountable and the council went bankrupt, the council officers kept their jobs and pensions etc.

    • @charlesreynolds7407
      @charlesreynolds7407 5 месяцев назад +24

      Believe it or not Cornwall council lent them 20 million and have no chance of getting that money back, that's how stupid CC is.

    • @lifeisforlivingfullstop9113
      @lifeisforlivingfullstop9113 5 месяцев назад +15

      Thats just a small drop in the ocean, career politician's who care about nothing but themselves and how much they make !!!!

    • @sensibledriver933
      @sensibledriver933 5 месяцев назад

      If you look at the people in charge of Thurrock over the years they were unfit to run a pub.

    • @lynjames4306
      @lynjames4306 5 месяцев назад +15

      Look at my post it is the same in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Absolute Disgraceful a 5 year old could look after money Better than the idiots in Government Absolute Gravy Train with contract given to a Mate if A Mate , Just like the Useless PPE Scandal, No one will face Prosecution 🤬

    • @villageoldman
      @villageoldman 5 месяцев назад +6

      Love to see a Tv programme like the Post Office one on this .

  • @ghostlea8802
    @ghostlea8802 5 месяцев назад +111

    These are NOT COUNCILS THEY ARE CORPORATIONS WAKE UP

    • @menshevik1012
      @menshevik1012 5 месяцев назад +1

      They’re not corporations.
      Corporations exist in a market where they can fail.
      Councils exist in a market where both they and the executives can’t fail.
      No matter how corrupt and incompetent the taxpayer foots the bill.

    • @ghostlea8802
      @ghostlea8802 5 месяцев назад +4

      @@menshevik1012 maybe you should lookup where all Corporations are registered.?????? That's why they are going bankrupt.

    • @stevestephens8969
      @stevestephens8969 5 месяцев назад

      @@menshevik1012 You need to go do your research.
      All Councils are Corporations, and All are Registered as Businesses with
      Dunn and Bradstreet with DUNNS references.
      And they are are all Revenue Collectors for HMRC.
      All Residential Council Tax is now paid directly to
      HMRC and is allocated back by Government with strings attached.
      That is why there has been the push for 15 Minute Cities, ULEZ Zones,
      Carbon Capture and so on, its all related to the State 'Net Zero' scam
      and so the Government says here is 'most' of your Council Tax back
      but in return you must implement this or that.
      Its most peculiar how people pay thousands of pounds annually and
      do not even know where it goes or what it's for, remarkable.

    • @menshevik1012
      @menshevik1012 5 месяцев назад

      @@ghostlea8802 do you mean the corporations in existence under the umbrella of Councils?
      I agree that this is a total scam run by some of the most incompetent men and women in the country.

    • @PamelaD963
      @PamelaD963 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@menshevik1012they are as is the police, as is the U.K. gov.
      Wake up !

  • @seandelap8587
    @seandelap8587 5 месяцев назад +284

    Wokeness thrives among that crowd

    • @peterhall3405
      @peterhall3405 5 месяцев назад +1

      What's wrong with being "woke". All it means is you want justice and decency. What is there in that you object to?

    • @lennoxgilbey1833
      @lennoxgilbey1833 5 месяцев назад +8

      @@peterhall3405😂😂😂

    • @jonathanrennie1379
      @jonathanrennie1379 5 месяцев назад +10

      Neely ever one of those councils are all labour run councils my council is£249 million in debt that’s labour all over

    • @peterhall3405
      @peterhall3405 5 месяцев назад

      @@jonathanrennie1379 Lot's of councils are going under, intcluding Tory councils.
      And they are going bust because of Tory government policy.
      That would be TORY policy.
      You know, the liars that brught us poverty, homelessness, foodbanks, a crisis in the NHS, in water, in energy, education .... the cost of living.
      Them Tories.
      The ones who set up "VIP" lanes to plough £billions to their maters during the pandemic. Michell Mone bought a yacht.
      Themn Tories.
      The ones who partied while we died. In record numbers.
      Them Tories.

    • @peterhall3405
      @peterhall3405 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@lennoxgilbey1833 Are you going to answer my question - lennox? Because cry-laff faces don't cut it - that just foolish.
      What problem do you have with being decent and just to others?

  • @ninianmacmillan-keith7435
    @ninianmacmillan-keith7435 5 месяцев назад +66

    Local councillors should be held accountable and individually sued.

    • @yinoveryang4246
      @yinoveryang4246 5 месяцев назад +4

      Unfortunately you’d need to fund prisons the size of the Burj Khalifa to take care of this problem. People in management level at councils are basically given a blank cheque. No questions asked

  • @welshhibby
    @welshhibby 5 месяцев назад +114

    Labour run councils most of them.

    • @fisherman5517
      @fisherman5517 5 месяцев назад +6

      all criminals indeed.

    • @OnlineEnglish-wl5rp
      @OnlineEnglish-wl5rp 5 месяцев назад +2

      But not all. Which rather illustrates the problem. The Tories have fleeced this country for FOURTEEN years to save their criminal banker mates and they've massively increased the population so obviously less is being shared around with more

    • @bobsocks7575
      @bobsocks7575 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@OnlineEnglish-wl5rp🤦🏼‍♂️

    • @Leo-gt1bx
      @Leo-gt1bx 5 месяцев назад

      Like all of the really bad cities in America are democrat run.

    • @Leo-gt1bx
      @Leo-gt1bx 5 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@OnlineEnglish-wl5rpIf you think this is a Tory issue you're naive 😂

  • @susanparkauntiesuze5447
    @susanparkauntiesuze5447 5 месяцев назад +129

    They have been deliberately wasting money on ridiculous things.

  • @kenhardy8405
    @kenhardy8405 5 месяцев назад +109

    Councillors should be Named and Shamed when wrong doings are committed.

    • @Cornz38
      @Cornz38 5 месяцев назад +9

      Erika Wenzel: Cheshire East council. Off sick but doing private speeches at 5k a pop. Michael Jones, Cheshire East council, awarding contracts to his mates. Michael Suarez.Cheshire east council. Put on suspension for 2 years on full pay. The DAY before his hearing he resigned. Therefore no further action, no explanation, justa big payout for him and a comfy seat on a board of directors collaborating with you guessed it, Cheshire east council. The infamous air quality scandal, again Cheshire East. Man whom tried to slit his own throat due to bullying, all quietly brushed under the carpet was it not for someone leaking it to the press.I was there 16 years and the rot and corruption is endemic.

    • @alfching2499
      @alfching2499 4 месяца назад

      @@Cornz38 There expenses are our ever rising council tax I've had it with this rip off country

  • @Benjilaw2288
    @Benjilaw2288 5 месяцев назад +163

    Council's can afford to buy rainbow sex flags. But not English flags can be flown from council buildings anymore even on st George's day. A thousand years of history, culture and invention. Not allowed not policy. But we can have pride sex flags.

    • @PhatSimey
      @PhatSimey 5 месяцев назад +7

      Councils ffs, no apostrophe! But, yeah, agreed.

    • @think-and-check
      @think-and-check 5 месяцев назад +13

      ​@@PhatSimeySeriously? You have never had a thought that it was literally a SLIP of a finger while typing? You didn't GET it from the sentence structure "Councils (subject) can afford to buy (verb)..." , did you?
      It's pathetic... Look around, only you have been that "smart" and silly.

    • @PhatSimey
      @PhatSimey 5 месяцев назад

      @@think-and-check Yeah, could have been, but as this fuckery of putting an apostrophe before the 's' in a plural has infected more people than covid, the chances are it's done on purpose ;-)

    • @Jimble675
      @Jimble675 5 месяцев назад

      Proper English flags, introduced by a bloke who lived in France and spoke French

    • @sigurdholbarki8268
      @sigurdholbarki8268 5 месяцев назад +5

      "Rainbow sex flags" absolutely cracked me up up, you massive legend. 😅

  • @peterdockerty8077
    @peterdockerty8077 5 месяцев назад +98

    Don’t forget that countless Labour councils moved all their cash to Iceland a few years ago and then lost all that money when the banking system collapsed. Why do councils make investments instead of spending cash on local services. Should be jail time for some

    • @steveturner6770
      @steveturner6770 5 месяцев назад +6

      Not just labour. Tory councils did that too, mine did. All those Treasurers should be sacked.

    • @spud7823
      @spud7823 5 месяцев назад +5

      ​@@steveturner6770get rid of these big Tajmahal size offices let's get back to small town councils, ours worked brilliant in the 70s,in Wales we got 22 unitary authorities, all sucking off the teat.

    • @steveturner6770
      @steveturner6770 5 месяцев назад +4

      @@spud7823 absolutely agree. Same thing happened in Northumberland.

    • @spud7823
      @spud7823 5 месяцев назад +6

      @@steveturner6770 correct, we had a small urban council, when it got taken on over it had £800,000 in the kitty, that was the 70s, it was efficient, roads resurfaced regular, drains cleaned, rat control, park keepers, regular bin collection, and we had ashes then, now we have a ghost town, and we never see our council.

    • @MrRQBQ
      @MrRQBQ 5 месяцев назад +8

      A similar situation when it comes to big charities. They'd rather leave their money in high interest investments rather than spend it where it's needed.

  • @janharvey1024
    @janharvey1024 5 месяцев назад +153

    Can we know how many Muslims are involved in these councils please?

    • @fisherman5517
      @fisherman5517 5 месяцев назад +29

      scammers you mean.

    • @jonathankeerie9129
      @jonathankeerie9129 5 месяцев назад

      What so all Muslims are scammers, is that what your trying to imply. What utter nonsense.

    • @thomasgalloway7768
      @thomasgalloway7768 5 месяцев назад +26

      That's a really good question. ? But I think we. Know the answer to that one, deport , deport. deport. ! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

    • @peterhall3405
      @peterhall3405 5 месяцев назад +3

      Why do you want to know how many muslims are involved with councils?
      I mean - what piece of the story do you hope to see more clearly as a result of knowing that?
      Or .... in what way is your question relevant?

    • @peterhall3405
      @peterhall3405 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@thomasgalloway7768 You claim the person asking abut the number of muslims inolved with councils is "a really good question". Why is it a good question? What issue does knowing that. Or are you just on hate mission looking for anything to feed your own prejudices?

  • @PhatSimey
    @PhatSimey 5 месяцев назад +46

    Are we surprised? Are we f**k!

  • @redbumbabboon1
    @redbumbabboon1 5 месяцев назад +165

    How can Reading council be granted 23 million for new bus lanes when we apparently do not have money?

    • @sisyphussapprentice8976
      @sisyphussapprentice8976 5 месяцев назад +7

      I thought reading bus service was pretty good? Only occasionally use it and it does what I ask of it.
      But of course I do not have a "vanity complex". (Or £23 million of someone else's money).

    • @redbumbabboon1
      @redbumbabboon1 5 месяцев назад +11

      @@sisyphussapprentice8976 I can’t understand how turning roads into bus lanes costs £23 million. It’s the great public sector robbery’s.
      Why does everything cost so much!
      One 200 meter bus lane which was only some cheap plastic coney cost 40k?!

    • @pip1723
      @pip1723 5 месяцев назад +3

      Bibby Stockholm 1.5 billion but that's government waste we talk about that.

    • @carlarthur4442
      @carlarthur4442 5 месяцев назад +1

      Or Buses 😅

    • @carlarthur4442
      @carlarthur4442 5 месяцев назад +5

      How much money would they save if they just used Roads as Roads and driver used commonsense, we don't need bus lanes because there isn't that many buses. Crack pots the lot of them .

  • @Charonupthekuiper
    @Charonupthekuiper 5 месяцев назад +91

    They may claim diversity and inclusion costs are low compared with the total budget, but I will guarantee no one will suffer if these "officers" are sacked other than those being fired. Look after the pennies etc.

  • @dovetonsturdee7033
    @dovetonsturdee7033 5 месяцев назад +34

    That should fund an awful lot of unused cycle lanes and vast numbers of Transgender events.

    • @nicklombard610
      @nicklombard610 5 месяцев назад +1

      It appears cycle lanes are no longer used as some idiots think its safer riding on the main roads?.

  • @galingale5440
    @galingale5440 5 месяцев назад +47

    Accountability? Of course not, it is public money so let's waste it on pet projects and wokery.

    • @fisherman5517
      @fisherman5517 5 месяцев назад +1

      would they carry on like this if it was there money i wonder ,i dont think so but its not there money as the only money they have is whats stolen from the tax payers and people on benefits through no falt of there own.

  •  5 месяцев назад +75

    When it's someone else's money and it's not coming from your pocket , then they don't care. If councils are funding silly projects then they should not be allowed to,increase council taxes. 🇬🇧

    • @genkosan6083
      @genkosan6083 5 месяцев назад

      Socialism is ok at first until they run out of other people’s money.

    • @morrisanderson3180
      @morrisanderson3180 5 месяцев назад +2

      absolutely spot on.

    • @davidbrooks7656
      @davidbrooks7656 5 месяцев назад

      Yes bloody right all monies come from the working people and they just throw it around we have to work bloody hard for it

  • @johnwoodward4319
    @johnwoodward4319 5 месяцев назад +79

    Every council should be externally audited and any wastage found charged against the councillors responsible, this may help deter the woke stupidity of these idiots.

    • @OllyO-gt8pg
      @OllyO-gt8pg 5 месяцев назад +2

      and rebated the next year to us with a lower bill.

    • @oddball7483
      @oddball7483 4 месяца назад

      They are by the same outsourcing AUDITOR COMPANIES.
      Those lovely edifices of TOWN HALLS built at public expense. Now being sold on the cheap to be converted into luxury "FLATS" for large profits while the public are being forced into future slums of high cost low quality boxes with a lifetime of debt and management charges. In the misguided belief they are property owners.

  • @Pizzpott
    @Pizzpott 5 месяцев назад +51

    Well the Rhondda Borough Council always has millions left over every year, money that they refused to spend on the people who are in their control. Instead, they give themselves ridiculous rises, cut services, and then keep the millions that they didn't spend on the people so that they can spend it in the last three months on needless and pointless roadworks. Every single year, as soon as January comes along they begin to spring up everywhere, and I mean everywhere. They then spread like a rash. In April, when they get the new money from the central gov, they will suddenly stop - having shown how much they have spent in the previous year.

    • @sigurdholbarki8268
      @sigurdholbarki8268 5 месяцев назад

      "needless and pointless roadworks" - if they're anything like ours, they're also substandard and will need doing again in six weeks. Except they won't be done again until the same time next year

  • @japfourme381
    @japfourme381 5 месяцев назад +32

    The biggest shock I had was when it was revealed that many Councils were investing money in offshore bank accounts that were offering more appreciable Interest rates than the banks in this Country!! Are these assets revealed or show up when they claim they’re going bankrupt?!!

  • @shanehall98
    @shanehall98 5 месяцев назад +42

    I can remember when I shared a idea with a council and they said we don’t have the money to do it. I did send a very snotty email saying they are liars!. I see and hear “we have no money however we can build a posh new crematorium” when there is three already”.

    • @joyelmes7814
      @joyelmes7814 5 месяцев назад +1

      They are popping up everywhere

  • @michellerees4061
    @michellerees4061 5 месяцев назад +21

    An investigation should take place on all so called bankrupt council. Those councils found to be corrupt, should be jailed promptly.

  • @briangray966
    @briangray966 5 месяцев назад +18

    I know a lady who worked in the finance department in my local council, she said the amounts of taxpayers money UTTERLY SQUANDERED will make your toes curl.A lot of the council managers have found a good place to hide and await their over inflated pensions and pay offs.

  • @ianross225
    @ianross225 5 месяцев назад +25

    I live in Croydon where the Labour council managed to rack up £1.5b in the red. No prosecutions/jailing for this monumental mismanagement. However, in Woking, where I have a flat, the Tory led council managed an expected staggering £2.6b. Now that’s what I call mismanagement. How is it possible for councils to actually be allowed to do this before they are brought to heel?

    • @sigurdholbarki8268
      @sigurdholbarki8268 5 месяцев назад

      Because no-one pays a blind bit of notice to them, local media and communities are dead or dying and all the parties (even the so-called right wing parties I'm included towards) buy votes by promising more spending and a lot of voters are entitled.
      Bit of a train wreck really, but until the country can be honest about what public services it can actually afford and realises problems can't be fixed by throwing money at them (especially when it's money we don't have) then things are not going to improve

    • @MookMineola
      @MookMineola 5 месяцев назад

      Brought to heel ? really . I don't think that's gonna happen

  • @stephandevere2812
    @stephandevere2812 5 месяцев назад +29

    I bet there will be a few rich Muslims some where related to Sadiq Khan or been advised by him.

  • @redpillmicky
    @redpillmicky 5 месяцев назад +22

    Councils have been waisting money on things that don't benefit anyone but themselves for years

    • @fisherman5517
      @fisherman5517 5 месяцев назад +1

      the council that runs royal tunbridge wells waste thousands if not millions on things that are of no use to the local indigenous people and visitors to our town ,thats if they can get past all the traffic hold ups because of un-needed road works , or are they installing cameras to spy on us all , but one thing they are not doing is reservicing our pothole ridden roads that are a danger to all people liveing in this town and its visiters.

  • @JG-fv9bv
    @JG-fv9bv 5 месяцев назад +25

    A few years back my local council spent £13,000 on biscuits

    • @davidpearson6785
      @davidpearson6785 5 месяцев назад +9

      Hobnobs?

    • @MC-nb6jx
      @MC-nb6jx 5 месяцев назад

      @@davidpearson6785… Custard Creams 😉

    • @spud7823
      @spud7823 5 месяцев назад +4

      @@davidpearson6785 that's the way the cookie crumbles.

  • @markberry5357
    @markberry5357 5 месяцев назад +29

    Why aren't they going into special measures

  • @deniscampbell5613
    @deniscampbell5613 5 месяцев назад +6

    Councils believe it's their right to waste our money, mine does

  • @SalemikTUBE
    @SalemikTUBE 5 месяцев назад +23

    If they have a dept dealing with DEI or anti racism then they are wasting money and must not get more of my money.
    They should be legally required to balance the books or face prosecution.

  • @clivefrear1784
    @clivefrear1784 5 месяцев назад +5

    This is appalling! How do we end up with groups of civil servants making ill-informed decisions with our money? They don’t have the business acumen to speculate with our hard-earned cash! Incompetence at best, corruption at worst. This must stop!

  • @richardstone5813
    @richardstone5813 5 месяцев назад +34

    Part of the issue is Council’s failure to collect Council Tax & Social Rents. Millions written off each year and increases for those who do pay in full. Sadly, being voted by your tribe onto Councils does not require even minimal skill in anything.

    • @steveturner6770
      @steveturner6770 5 месяцев назад +1

      yes, good point

    • @OnlineEnglish-wl5rp
      @OnlineEnglish-wl5rp 5 месяцев назад +2

      Because the whole privatisation of social housing has been an utter disaster. Since the 80s, the Tories sold off council houses, didn't replace them, kept millions of people unemployed and then started using Housing Benefit as a new revenue stream for their landlord friends
      For the last FOURTEEN YEARS they imposed austerity because we bailed out their criminal friends in the City and they've massively increased the population so obviously that's meant less is shared out with more - and it's all going t-ts up!

    • @janwong9437
      @janwong9437 5 месяцев назад +3

      That’s not true, councils robustly pursue arrears overpayments and nonpayments. Very rarely do they write off debts owed to them.

    • @OnlineEnglish-wl5rp
      @OnlineEnglish-wl5rp 5 месяцев назад

      @@janwong9437 True. There was a story about how Chorley council has saved huge sums by intervening early and preventing debts building up. Lancashire la la la! ; )

  • @manchesterutdfan66
    @manchesterutdfan66 5 месяцев назад +22

    What ethnicity are these people?

    • @infinitesix9875
      @infinitesix9875 5 месяцев назад +2

      Mus ims and blicks!!!🔥⚔️💪🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇪

  • @robharding5345
    @robharding5345 5 месяцев назад +22

    Outrageous waste of taxpayers money.

  • @Micklowe
    @Micklowe 5 месяцев назад +28

    Every £1 you pay approximately 80p to just pay the wages and pensions

    • @njkip
      @njkip 5 месяцев назад

      Really.....🙄

    • @MookMineola
      @MookMineola 5 месяцев назад +3

      And the other 19p wasted . No make that the other 20p wasted

  • @johncatto5019
    @johncatto5019 5 месяцев назад +22

    Why are we not surprised to hear this ? Of course it is not easy to balance the budget but the requirement to spend all your budget before the end of the financial year or risk losing funding next year can't help. Proper management is needed.

  • @colinfarrelly2513
    @colinfarrelly2513 5 месяцев назад +11

    I want to know the names of these councillers I have got a feeling most people will not be happy when they do. !!

  • @davidbarlow350
    @davidbarlow350 5 месяцев назад +6

    Why were The Taxpayer's Alliance completely silent on the £8 million that it cost to repair a door at Parliament?
    I emailed them and never got the courtesy of a response.
    I would have thought spending £8 million on a door repair might have raised a few eyebrows.

  • @andrewstafford-jones4291
    @andrewstafford-jones4291 5 месяцев назад +8

    How about cancelling their "Gold Plated" pensions and making all the grossly overpaid employees redundant and re-hiring at value for money rates.

  • @oohtob6685
    @oohtob6685 5 месяцев назад +13

    I live in social housing.
    I've had a vibration water pressure problem for months.
    They've sent 3 different of there own plumbers/ heating engineers in that have no idea what the main problem is. I'm quite up on plumbing and heating and I new what the problem was.
    So 3 people have got paid for no outcome. Go figure.
    The last plummer knew exactly what the problem was.
    Another problem. An overgrown tree. Small. 12ft high. 2 man job at best. 5 men turned up without the equipment to do the job. All got paid for doing nothing.
    These are the small areas where money is getting thrown up the wall.
    And as for 3 or more tenders for a job ie pricing a job. Oh the fiddling of coffers are astronomical.
    1 job fiddled at the price of £6.000.
    So councils going bust I can see why.

    • @rodneyfungus8249
      @rodneyfungus8249 5 месяцев назад

      Irrelevant as to why councils are going bust. Social Housing is ringfenced in the ‘Housing revenue Account’. There is no impact on the Council’s general fund.

    • @oohtob6685
      @oohtob6685 5 месяцев назад +2

      @rodneyfungus8249 really?
      Priced disabled adaption bathroom. Cost £6,000 all in.
      End bill with backhanders. £12,000. The head of that project was caught out fiddling. Of course its ring fenced. Labour Council.

    • @user-se5vy8gj9e
      @user-se5vy8gj9e 5 месяцев назад

      I get your sentiment but I have to ask, why didn't you just fix it yourself?

  • @barkerbiz
    @barkerbiz 5 месяцев назад +19

    Councils wouldnt be contracting half as much of this work out if they adequately initially invested in apprenticeships for the younger generation. An apprenticeship with a few years work guaranteed at the end of it would go a long way to bringing costs down in the future, And who knows,...God forbid! Be Good for the Community.

    • @menshevik1012
      @menshevik1012 5 месяцев назад +1

      Spot on.
      Unfortunately the culture at present would make it impossible to give young people any sensible form a training.

  • @user-hr7cc3lo4e
    @user-hr7cc3lo4e 5 месяцев назад +9

    What happened to accountability and responsibility?

    • @Mr.SLovesTheSacredHeartofJesus
      @Mr.SLovesTheSacredHeartofJesus 5 месяцев назад +1

      Well said. And you can add a level of adult maturity to your list. Remembering that they are spending taxpayers payers £ £ £.

    • @GraemeMears
      @GraemeMears 5 месяцев назад

      What happened to the liability order, oh there doesn’t seem to be one, it’s an illegal payment.

  • @spike178
    @spike178 5 месяцев назад +4

    Corruption everywhere in Government and councils.

  • @jimberry7411
    @jimberry7411 5 месяцев назад +4

    When you get a bus driver for example becoming a councillor and gaining access to spending millions without ever even being able to budget in his own home, you are going to have trouble. Birmingham council wasted tens of millions using covid as an excuse to line pockets. The big trouble is that these councillors are not accountable and some of them should be jailed

  • @MrAbnormalt
    @MrAbnormalt 5 месяцев назад +25

    Inbreeding

  • @jayjay-xk1zn
    @jayjay-xk1zn 5 месяцев назад +12

    My council waste money

  • @terencegumbs2478
    @terencegumbs2478 5 месяцев назад +12

    Councils should stop spending money on nonsense.

    • @fisherman5517
      @fisherman5517 5 месяцев назад +1

      we do not vote for this waste of our tax money but thats what we get.

    • @user-se5vy8gj9e
      @user-se5vy8gj9e 5 месяцев назад

      That's because we you vote different sides of the same coin in every time ffs, some of the drivel I read on here suggests that's not going to change soon.

  • @DavidThompson-cg6hh
    @DavidThompson-cg6hh 5 месяцев назад +3

    And this is because there is no jeopardy when councillors screw it up. They should be prosecuted for maladministration of public funds.

  • @jhonson7079
    @jhonson7079 5 месяцев назад +3

    Name and shame don't forget to name the Tory council's as well

  • @markleechapman6347
    @markleechapman6347 5 месяцев назад +4

    It's a shame that the councillors don't have their bank account details investigated. I bet none of them go without. While they all plead poverty it's Disgusting. We ain't stupid there all taking the piss.

  • @gary8306
    @gary8306 5 месяцев назад +10

    Top bosses on far too much money. All who work for the councils/police etc should retire at 66/67, no more lump sums etc etc.
    Cornwall council have spent over 300k storing wheelie bins since 2021.

  • @gee3883
    @gee3883 5 месяцев назад +5

    Look at the demographic of these areas, tells you everything.

  • @originalshadowfax
    @originalshadowfax 5 месяцев назад +5

    SomeONE never makes a decision in local authorities, it is always done by committee, which means no one person can be blamed or made accountable, unless of course it saves them money, then the chair usually takes the credit. I worked for Birmingham council for over a year as private contractor (btw I saved much more than it cost to hire me by simply putting some clear processes in place) and I saw first hand the money they wasted on external training (no one turned up for the courses), refitting offices with new equipment when there was stuff brand new and already bought and available are just 2 examples.

  • @martinslocombe2288
    @martinslocombe2288 5 месяцев назад +6

    Local council corruption is nothing new remember Derek Hatton and Liverpool council .

  • @kevinrussell1319
    @kevinrussell1319 5 месяцев назад +7

    This country is a joke.

  • @GaryTaylor-gp2qc
    @GaryTaylor-gp2qc 5 месяцев назад +5

    Make councils legally responsible if they go bust and investigation deems inappropriate misuse of funds , this may focus the minds

  • @barkerbiz
    @barkerbiz 5 месяцев назад +6

    Nottinghams CEO moved to Derby City Council @ aprox £267,000. Thats right. A Quarter of a Million Pounds+ 5k Bonus in the first year.

    • @barkerbiz
      @barkerbiz 5 месяцев назад

      Derby City Council Mantra on many of thier vans
      "If you cant pay. You cant stay"

  • @matthewmullins6801
    @matthewmullins6801 5 месяцев назад +2

    So someone looses all your money you gave them and you just keep giving them more, brilliant 👏

  • @djames6780
    @djames6780 5 месяцев назад +3

    How much do these councils spend on tea, biscuits and sandwiches?
    Or pi*s ups?
    20 odd years ago, Suffolk council was shamed for spending £12,000 a month!!

  • @sandrawhelan9159
    @sandrawhelan9159 5 месяцев назад +6

    It’s about time we had another system in place for managing tax payers money. Fed up with our so called councillors (idiots) deciding what our money is spent on. People and their welfare should come first.

  • @MrFoggy13
    @MrFoggy13 5 месяцев назад +8

    I get the feeling local councils use their budgets to buy lottery tickets and then cross their fingers.

  • @3rdeyegeneral
    @3rdeyegeneral 5 месяцев назад +4

    Corrupt unlawful councils

  • @davidcook6064
    @davidcook6064 5 месяцев назад +4

    You don't pour more water into a bucket that's got holes in it. We need leadership and constructive intervention from central government in these cases, but Downing Street is just as useless.

  • @PATRIOT1690
    @PATRIOT1690 5 месяцев назад +4

    This is what happens when we allow public sector workers to operate in a monopolistic environment.

    • @yinoveryang4246
      @yinoveryang4246 5 месяцев назад

      It’s what happens when you allow ANYONE to operate in a monopolistic environment. It’s the greatest example we have on or own doorstep of why Socialism will never, and can never, actually work. You don’t have to to to Eastern Europe or to South America to hear their stores.

  • @6haybay
    @6haybay 5 месяцев назад +2

    Mr Sunak we have given our council leader a pay rise to £ 270,000 a year and other council hierarchy are on £ 180,000 to £ 200,000 and we have just bought some paintings for our offices which come to £ 900,000 and its costing £ 350,000 to have the council leaders office decorated to her liking and extra cost is £ 12,000 for an ipad each. What we receive now from the government is not enough so we need more otherwise we wont be able to afford to fly first class on our fact finding missions to New Zealand and Australia Las Vegas and Morocco to name but a few.

  • @DoneDunning
    @DoneDunning 5 месяцев назад +6

    Are you ready for more austerity?
    I can't hear you...

  • @TRONRINZLER
    @TRONRINZLER 5 месяцев назад +2

    Need to stop bailing out failures, already bailed out banks and now bailing out councils who should have all been sacked for bad management.

  • @alanphillips7132
    @alanphillips7132 5 месяцев назад +2

    Vote reform if you want you're country back 👍

  • @steveis33
    @steveis33 5 месяцев назад +15

    You don’t think they pay £20000 for a toilet seat or £10000 for hammer or £100,000 for a sign😂

    • @HowardKlein1958
      @HowardKlein1958 5 месяцев назад +2

      Yeah, saw the film. Independence day 😃

    • @steveis33
      @steveis33 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@HowardKlein1958 yeah, but they didn’t say anything about the £100k sign in the movie😂

    • @fisherman5517
      @fisherman5517 5 месяцев назад +2

      yes they do as it can be proven ,if you know some one who works for them.

    • @hammyh1165
      @hammyh1165 5 месяцев назад

      Costs £250 to change a toilet seat at my work.

    • @steveis33
      @steveis33 5 месяцев назад

      @@hammyh1165 bloody hell🤦‍♂️

  • @pip1723
    @pip1723 5 месяцев назад +2

    How much have this government wasted ? Bibby Stockholm ,Rwanda ,ppe contracts ect ect

  • @jimbrown2688
    @jimbrown2688 5 месяцев назад +1

    I work in IT. I worked for Dundee City Council for 8 years. They put someone with zero experience in charge of an IT project despite my warnings. He didn't have a clue and wasted about £1,000,000 of taxpayers' money and just walked away. No accountability whatsoever.

  • @CSBourne
    @CSBourne 5 месяцев назад +3

    And how much is given in grants to mosques ?

  • @kimbateson8454
    @kimbateson8454 5 месяцев назад +2

    We should know where our money is being g spent coucils and government should be mad accountable for making this country poor

  • @catastrophic009
    @catastrophic009 5 месяцев назад +1

    They all should be jailed !!

  • @lynnebarkas6906
    @lynnebarkas6906 5 месяцев назад +1

    How many are Labour councils how many are Tory councils. Let’s have some facts and figures.

  • @chriscundey8239
    @chriscundey8239 5 месяцев назад +1

    And when will we see the prosecutions???....it stinks of corruption to me.

  • @HowardKlein1958
    @HowardKlein1958 5 месяцев назад +1

    Woking £2.6 BILLION (£2600 million) investing in commercial property and failing. Still no one gone to jail.

  • @lmg7503
    @lmg7503 5 месяцев назад +2

    Diversity and diverse money. What a scam by so many

  • @MrDunkycraig
    @MrDunkycraig 5 месяцев назад +2

    Just look at Peterborough and the £15 million loan for a hotel that seems never to be finished

  • @chriscrezz1312
    @chriscrezz1312 5 месяцев назад +1

    Managers of managers of managers is the problem. The same is in the NHS!!. Redundancys are needed👏

  • @charley22123
    @charley22123 5 месяцев назад +1

    About time they obeyed their own rules , Mis Conduct in a public office was brought in for a reason , however their first rule is DO NOT OBEY THE RULES ! .Time for a revolution

  • @MAC-mp2hu
    @MAC-mp2hu 5 месяцев назад +1

    Wasting money whilst closing down services!

  • @benhemmings3852
    @benhemmings3852 5 месяцев назад +1

    None of these councillors would be employable in the private sector

  • @tedandy2114
    @tedandy2114 5 месяцев назад +1

    all that money, yet there isn't any; pure greed and corruption. Sack the main managers first, then go from there

  • @Storm0763
    @Storm0763 5 месяцев назад +1

    And guess who are going to have to pay for all this????????

  • @geoffreyrawlings9736
    @geoffreyrawlings9736 5 месяцев назад +2

    Councils bring special advisers and pay them thousands for stuff they deal with themselves.

  • @yinoveryang4246
    @yinoveryang4246 5 месяцев назад +1

    There is something fundamentally wrong with the way councils are run in the UK. Corruption and complete lack of accountability through and through.This is obvious to everyone, everyone who works there, and every council tax payer, and has been for years. The sad thing is, it’s a lot a lot worse than the recent Post Office scandal in the breadth of its consequences. It’s just yet to “hit the headlines“.

  • @Northstar-Media
    @Northstar-Media 5 месяцев назад +1

    Birmingham Council has shown serious mismanagement. Funds are being channelled offshore & how much as London payed into ULEZ 🤬

  • @darrents44
    @darrents44 5 месяцев назад +1

    My local council has spent millions on cycle path, cycle lights, crossings etc.. that no one is using because the surface is horrible to ride on. Cyclist don't bother using the lights. Yet potholes are worse than ever and the city centre is a dump. But also just spent millions on new paving, but shops are closing at an alarming rate.

  • @johnw2758
    @johnw2758 5 месяцев назад +1

    Our council, knocked a sport centre down to build a car park and also knocked a multi storey car park down to build a............sports centre.... Oh, they also had scaffolding up around the Town Hall for 3 years. They have also pedestrianised a walkway near the football ground that never had traffic on it on match days anyway. So far that's £6 million and counting, yet, the town is riddled in pot holes!! They seemed to manage the money when it was the old rates system, now they are getting far far more money coming in and can't seem to manage it !! Come March, if they have any excess, they have to waste it so that they can carry on being funded with the same amount of money...

  • @UKdraxion
    @UKdraxion 5 месяцев назад +2

    Our council just wasted 7 million on a fekin bike lanes for miles throughout the town and surrounding areas, and I have yet to see a single cyclist using them, just to tick a bleeding green box.......

    • @cmwau
      @cmwau 5 месяцев назад

      Same in our city, causing massive traffic jams, resulting in twice the petrol use for the same journey, whilst bike lanes remain empty, hardly green.

  • @Worldturnedupsidedown
    @Worldturnedupsidedown 5 месяцев назад +2

    I know a council employee £48000 a year works from home and never doesmore than 2hours work a day.

    • @yinoveryang4246
      @yinoveryang4246 5 месяцев назад

      There’s a few of them you’ll meet.

  • @SteveSmith-kf9on
    @SteveSmith-kf9on 5 месяцев назад +1

    Doesn’t stop the pay rises? Sack the F in lot

  • @tonygroves5516
    @tonygroves5516 5 месяцев назад +1

    Leader of lambeth council, 187k a year and forty others on a 100k plus. Incompetent and disgusting.

  • @grahampilkington252
    @grahampilkington252 5 месяцев назад +1

    Corruption lies at the heart of this.

  • @Doodles1815
    @Doodles1815 5 месяцев назад +1

    The government should send in accountants and if corruption the perpetrators should be arrested…simples🙄