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DamselsPlight 43F
10 posts
6/8/2023 1:02 am
Sense of humor required

See below...

DamselsPlight 43F
15 posts
6/8/2023 1:05 am

 I came across this article in London this morning as I'm preparing to head back to the US and it made me laugh. A sense of humor is required so you'll have to put the usual knee-jerk, mouth-frothing response impulses aside

"Liberal Democrat-run Woking Borough Council on Wednesday issued a section 114 notice (e.g. bankruptcy) formally declaring it is unable to deliver a balanced budget with the £16 MILLION it has available for 2023-24.

The accumulated £1.2 BILLION shortfall in Woking’s finances also means it is unable to meet its budgetary requirements in the coming years." (denomination emphasis mine)

Now... can you have a more aptly named "Liberal Democrat" council than "Woking" that is over a billion in debt when it normally operates with a very low 10s of millions budget? I would love to see where they pissed away all that money


etresoumissexuel 60M
165 posts
6/8/2023 1:32 am

 Hello,
😂😂😂


tastetester61 62M
1785 posts
6/8/2023 1:38 am

 As Maggie Thatcher said, " The trouble with socialism is that sooner or later, you run out of other peoples' money."


ilikepot 50M  
62 posts
6/8/2023 2:44 am

 Wow. That's kinda incredible... A Billion Dollar Borough.
[insert quick math] that accumulated 1.2B works out to approximately £11,500 debt generated per resident (2021 Census data shows Woking's population around 104,000)

I'm right with ya, Damsel; The Woking Borough Council's website has their Finances posted/available for download going back to 2015 and I'm going to give it a skim when I need a change of pace, later this morning.
What can I say?
ilikepot


flasherwatcher68 56M

6/8/2023 4:00 am

 Incredible but not that surprising unfortunately.


All4TheMistress 55M  
1572 posts
6/8/2023 6:32 am

 Some things are almost too funny to be true!


likeithot19 62M
6106 posts
6/8/2023 7:39 am

 I went to secondary school in the UK. My Dad took me and dropped me off. We rented a car to get there from London. The man who gave us the key asked where we were going? My Dad said Bury St Edmunds. The man said, I did not know he was dead...


tastetester61 62M
1785 posts
6/9/2023 5:10 am
    Quoting likeithot19:
    I went to secondary school in the UK. My Dad took me and dropped me off. We rented a car to get there from London. The man who gave us the key asked where we were going? My Dad said Bury St Edmunds. The man said, I did not know he was dead...
That's just typical UK humour.


sluttwouse 31F  
766 posts
6/9/2023 10:45 am

 Hi, love ur pic's.


bbfins 58M  
1 post
6/10/2023 2:40 am

 Dig a little deeper and you’ll learn that the Lib Dems have only been in control since May 2022; prior to that the Tories led the borough council for a decade.
Sadly, in the UK, as in the US, being conservative no longer means being conservative with the taxpayers’ money.


DamselsPlight replies on 6/11/2023 10:04 am:
Like I said... sense of humor required And it was a little vague (typical of UK articles) about whether it was due to long term investment losses or a shift in investment in the last year that created the losses. Not really to appreciate the name/label humor


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