It is intellectual bankruptcy that remains at the heart of local government’s financial woes, not mismanagement. While Lord Morse recently explained the mischaracterisation of his comments in The Times (The MJ 11 January), the mantra of ‘mismanagement’ is wheeled out as a convenient explanation far too often.
Central government can spend its way out of crises because, unlike councils, it does not have to balance its books yearly.
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