Ross Clark Ross Clark

Councils of despair

Local authorities are slashing vital services, but keeping extravagant offices and salaries – and handing blame back to David Cameron

issue 12 February 2011

Local authorities are slashing vital services, but keeping extravagant offices and salaries – and handing blame back to David Cameron

We are, of course, all in this together. It is just that an awful lot of people feel that they are rather further in it than anyone else, and believe that while they are drowning in the deep end they can see David Cameron happily splashing about in his Gucci shorts in the shallows.

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