The Okey Cokey budget

I have been looking through the budget papers for Thursday's precept setting meeting of Cumbria County Council.

There seems to be a higher than usual proportion of smoke and mirrors in the Labour/Liberal Democrat administration's budget than is normal even for them.

There are a whole list of "savings" which are very far from achieved and then a whole list of items putting pressure on the council finances which take them out again.

One person connected with the council - no names, no packdrill so as not to make them a target for revenge - called it the Okey Cokey budget. They had a point.

As previously mentioned the budget meeting of Cumbria County Council will be held this Thursday, 15th February 2018, at 10am at County Hall in Kendal. The meeting is open to the public.

For those with a strong stomach, all the papers for the meeting are available on the County Council website at:

http://councilportal.cumbria.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=123&MId=10031

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