One nation? You're having a laugh.

As Bolsover Council embarks on its big consultation over who will suffer most from Council tax benefit cuts, their own lavish refurbishment of Clowne Arc, (their new stately home and former college), continues unabated. Have a look if you're down that way; the number of skips and the frequency they are being emptied is testimony to the priorities of this Council, spending £5.8M (which is nearly £200 per household) looking after number one

At a Committee meeting on Tuesday only one member of the Labour group was willing to break ranks, and ruin his "career" prospects by voting with me to oppose the closure of all three Community houses in the District. The other Labour Councillors wouldn't even wait for the finance staff to tell them how much money they cost to run before rushing to close them. Community houses that hadn't been staffed properly (or indeed at all) were described as "underused", whilst other centres with a thriving mix of activities were labelled as "victims of their own success". Heads you lose, tails you don't win. Even when the Domestic Violence Worker told them that a Community House was the safest and most discreet place for women suffering domestic abuse they decided that she didn't know what she was talking about and voted to close it anyway.

What was it  the one nation Miliband said "Have you ever seen such an incompetent, hopeless, out of touch, U-turning, pledge-breaking, back-of-envelope writing, make-it-up-as-you-go-along, miserable shower than this". Well now you come to mention it Ed.............."YES"............. It's the Council where the members take the highest basic allowances of any District Council in the country and pay for it by closing public toilets and community houses; reducing opening hours of contact centres and selling off our green spaces for supermarkets, come up and have a look sometime.