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Wherabouts are the current south ribble council offices ?
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They need to sell the old building first.
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Who is the man with the board and why is he there ??? I have read about him but still dont know the answer.
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There is no limit to the vaulting ambitions for power and influence of the 'ruling-elite' that presently reside at the 'Civic Center'.
Some who have 'parachuted' into high positions from other authorities, very often without those positions even being offered to people from South Ribble, check on the 'hiring-policy' of south Ribble, and see what salaries are being offered.
One only has to look back a couple of years, to the machinations of the then 'Labour/Liberal' coalition with the 'Rulers' of South Ribble. To see the extent of their duplicity. As they attempted to 'join-Leyland/south Ribble' onto Preston's power and tax structure.
The fact that the majority of south-Ribble taxpayers, would have paid more of their council tax to Prestons Urban economy, was seemingly irrelavant to the elite who, with their high salaries and pension benifits, would have gained even more of the same from the merger.
As someone who attended two of the five 'citizens-meetings' protesting against this move by the 'Mandrins' as the Civic Center, which developed sufficient strength as to have the Labour/liberal alliance deposed from office and the merger plans scrapped.
The first time in my long life, that I have ever seen our much vaunted 'DEMOCRACY' actually work to ordinary peoples advantage.
I would like to remind anyone interested, (e.g. council-tax payers) that the 'money-spenders' at the civic center, in order to justify their employment, are constantly looking for 'new-methods' of extending their own 'EMPIRE' because in this way, they move on up the 'Pay-Power' hierarchy with even higher salaries and pension benifits at our expense, without any seeming benefit to the 'hard-hit' ratepayers. OR improvement in the services supplied to us.
This NEW SPENDING initiative, for the NEW OFFICES, is the latest example of the old axiom, GOVERNMENT SPENDING EXPANDS TO EXCEED THE MONEY RAISED BY EXISTING TAXATION', AND YOU AND I, PAY THOSE TAXES THEY SPEND SO FREELY, OFTEN WITH REDUCED OR FIXED INCOME,
HOW MANY OF US HAVE NOTICED THE STEEP RISE IN LANCASHIRE COUNTY COUNCILS DEMAND'S AND HOW MANY OF US KNOW WHERE THE BULK OF THAT EXTRA TAX GOES.
Visit the Civic Center,Offices, and compare their working conditions, with those of you working in the Private Sector, try and discover the heating costs, of doors left open, and windows opened because the particular room cannot be properly regulated. If they sincerely want to 'SAVE ON FUEL BILLS' as proclaimed, why not turn the heating down to the level that most of us have in our homes, in the winter-time.
The meals in their canteen are subsidised down to a give-away price, that no outside contractor could possibly keep her/his business solvent.
A bit serious? Yes!, but untill ordinary people,taxpayers, pay attention to these matters, they and you are going to have your money wasted by people who don't care how much their office life/style costs us.
Because we never complain, the main reason being, there is no 'focal-point' for our complaints, try talking to your local councillar and ask him/her what they are concerned about, and see if it coincides with your own worries.
P.S. HAVING SPOKEN WITH THE 'MAN-WITH-THE-BOARD', HE IS COMPLAINING ABOUT A PARTICULAR CASE OF PERCIEVED COUNCIL-CORRUPTION IN ENFORCEMENT OF PLANNING REGULATIONS.
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Now many of us are unemployed we won't be able to pay those taxes. It's about time local authorities were more resonsible and it should start at the top with salaries of up to £200k being paid for chief executives, more than the Prime Minister of the UK gets. How can they justify this?
Good points Bruce.