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  • LondonManc
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    Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
    I've heard of Staines - home of Ali G innit.

    Never heard of Spelthorne though, not really a council I've ever needed to concern myself with.

    Again, prime example of why Scooty shouldn't be on a town council.

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  • SueEllen
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    Originally posted by LondonManc View Post
    Never heard of them. Thinking more about councils who spend shedloads on flowerbeds where only a few people visit but would probably ruin their vehicles on the countless potholes in the roads.

    Or cycle lanes that suddenly stop because they'd not considered where they were going.
    You have heard of Staines?

    Spelthorne council leader who made billion-pound bet on property market ousted — The Bureau of Investigative Journalism


    They weren't the only council up to this tulip.

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  • LondonManc
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    Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
    Spelthorne Borough Council and their office space?
    Never heard of them. Thinking more about councils who spend shedloads on flowerbeds where only a few people visit but would probably ruin their vehicles on the countless potholes in the roads.

    Or cycle lanes that suddenly stop because they'd not considered where they were going.

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  • AtW
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    Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
    I think you need to show how you love your adopted country by getting into politics. Remember you don't have to stay in your own city if your grease the right hands.
    This time next year...

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  • SueEllen
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    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    Well, you’d be surprised how much it costs these days to build brand new, compliant with all current red tape regulations hard deep underground nuclear bunkers for the councillors.
    I think you need to show how you love your adopted country by getting into politics. Remember you don't have to stay in your own city if your grease the right hands.

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  • AtW
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    Originally posted by Paddy View Post
    Is that the same council that build three council houses at cost £68,000,000 each when only £350,000 were land and building costs and the remainder was spent on consultation?
    Well, you’d be surprised how much it costs these days to build brand new, compliant with all current red tape regulations hard deep underground nuclear bunkers for the councillors.

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  • Paddy
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    Is that the same council that build three council houses at cost £68,000,000 each when only £350,000 were land and building costs and the remainder was spent on consultation?

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  • NigelJK
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    Croydon regularly appears in PE rotten boroughs, their housing scheme is more than a little corrupt. And don't mention hotel purchases.

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  • SueEllen
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    Originally posted by LondonManc View Post
    It doesn’t surprise me. Local government aren’t the best businesses people. Too many vanity projects get signed off.
    Spelthorne Borough Council and their office space?

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  • cojak
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    Originally posted by LondonManc View Post
    It doesn’t surprise me. Local government aren’t the best businesses people. Too many vanity projects get signed off.
    As an ex-Robin Hood Energy customer I agree with that statement.

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  • LondonManc
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    It doesn’t surprise me. Local government aren’t the best businesses people. Too many vanity projects get signed off.

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  • AtW
    started a topic Good ban

    Good ban

    Croydon Council bans spending under Section 114 notice - BBC News

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