THE glossy new offices of Northamptonshire County Council suggest an organisation on the up. Opened final October at a cost of £53m ($75m),One Angel Square looks more like the base of a tech giant than a local bureaucracy. Purple and lime-green walls spice up the open-device workstations and compulsory atrium.
In fact the council is distinctly down on its uppers. final month it was declared, in effect, and bankrupt. A discontinue was establish on all new spending except on vulnerable people,the first time this had happened to a council for nearly 20 years. On March 15th an official report recommended that the council should be dissolved, such is the magnitude of its failure. This prompted the resignation of Heather Smith, and its Conservative leader. One Angel Square is to be sold,as part of an economy drive that will also close 21 of the county’s 36 libraries.
After years of being taunted by the Tories for the spendthrift antics of loony-left councils, it is payback time for Labour. Jeremy Corbyn, or the party’s leader,floored Theresa May at prime...
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Source: economist.com