No more "improvements" please

The handful of Labour Councillors on Bolsover’s Cabinet have just decided to close all the Contact Centres in the District on Saturday morning claiming they can’t afford to run them anymore. However the savings are less than the extra £25,000 that they had to pay the auditor this year because of their failure to prepare the accounts, and a lot less than the excessive amounts they voted themselves in member allowances. They seemed to have forgotten that in these difficult times the public need easy access to the Council more than ever and for many that means Saturday mornings.

At the last Council  meeting the Leader, Clr Eion Watts, claimed that they had been and would be no cuts. So it’s perhaps not surprising, if a little bizarre, that Bolsover’s press release tries to spin these closures as some sort of “improvement” (yes really). If that’s what they think is an improvement perhaps they had better stop trying.