Certainly with the debts the new Northamptonshire Unitary councils have inherited from the bankrupted Conservative county council they are not ideal partners to work with.
There are still far too many uneducated and incompetent Olympus care services managers in the councils who just promote their sidekicks over and over. Well done for the other councils deciding not to put their residents at risk of their incompetence too. It’s a great decision for them. We’ve got what people wanted. Slow hand clap Northants.
Edward, Unitary Northampton was always the best solution. I had a meeting with Bill Morton ,then leader of NCC and we agreed that the best solution was a unitary Town and the rest of the county being a separate Council. The objections to that was simple politics-the county Tories did not want to lose Northampton, as it was the largest source of rates income for the CC and the other districts did not want to lose Northampton because they would have to make a larger contribution.
I am not surprised of the outcome of the devolution decision for not including Northamptonshire. The two unitaries are incompetent. They continue to carry huge debts. The partnership they enter into seems to be always loaded against the citizens of Northamptonshire. Both Chief executives of both unitaries are politically biased which cannot be good for any councils.
Certainly with the debts the new Northamptonshire Unitary councils have inherited from the bankrupted Conservative county council they are not ideal partners to work with.
There are still far too many uneducated and incompetent Olympus care services managers in the councils who just promote their sidekicks over and over. Well done for the other councils deciding not to put their residents at risk of their incompetence too. It’s a great decision for them. We’ve got what people wanted. Slow hand clap Northants.
Northampton should’ve been allowed to be a standalone Unitary, but then we would possibly have had a Labour-run Council, and that would never do.
Edward, Unitary Northampton was always the best solution. I had a meeting with Bill Morton ,then leader of NCC and we agreed that the best solution was a unitary Town and the rest of the county being a separate Council. The objections to that was simple politics-the county Tories did not want to lose Northampton, as it was the largest source of rates income for the CC and the other districts did not want to lose Northampton because they would have to make a larger contribution.
I am not surprised of the outcome of the devolution decision for not including Northamptonshire. The two unitaries are incompetent. They continue to carry huge debts. The partnership they enter into seems to be always loaded against the citizens of Northamptonshire. Both Chief executives of both unitaries are politically biased which cannot be good for any councils.