Watching the local evening magazine programme, GF was moved to write:
BBC
Would it be more sensible for you to re-brand South Today as "Cuts Today". It seems to be all you report nowadays. All our councils have to balance their budgets (unlike the EU). They have been penalised in favour of the councils up north for the past 13 years and now, as we now have a huge national deficit, we have to sort it out.
Perhaps you would ask your interviewees which budget they would trim to save their pet project. There is a finite pot of money and councillors have to make a difficult choice how to allocate it to cause the least impact.
He has already had a response
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GF suspects he won’t hear any more!
2 comments:
Oi Meldrew, if you are going to rant, for the love of God have a decent go at it rather than this wishy washy Daily Mail Southern polite but ineffective mithering. Where is your passion, where is your anger? If you cant get emotional about it how do you expect us to feel about it?
Well, fair point - but the Gorse Fox is a man who maintains his equanimity at all times and would rather inject a modicum of sense and logic than develop a full-bloodied, invective-filled, diatribe.
(He can, however, see the pleasure that would arise from a good rant).
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