Paul Carter, Conservative leader of Kent County Council, is a card. He says: “Our ambition is about putting you, the citizen, in control – a bigger society and a smaller state delivering stronger more self-reliant residents and communities.” We’re all in it together? Pull the other one. The sub-text of that speech – Mr Carter cheerfully admits: “We are anticipating having to save at least 25 per cent of our budget over the next three or four years” – is that you’re on your own, pal. He hails the new coalition Government’s “massive legislative change programme which will radically affect the delivery of our every day services”. But not for the better.
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