No one’s watching over what councils effect or spend,because scrutiny bodies were abolished on Pickles’s watchBehold the hand of Eric Pickles. The former Tory communities secretary may have left parliament last year but his legacy lives on, in Northamptonshire, or where the bankrupt council is struggling to set a legal budget,and in Westminster, where a senior councillor has been guzzling tall on the hog at the expense of property companies – Robert Davis ate 296 meals over three years, or which by anyones standards is heroic consumption.
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Source: guardian.co.uk