All this so-called transparency stuff is getting out of control.It’s one extreme to the other. First, they treat you like mushrooms. Next they’re showing you the cost of every toilet roll they’ve bought in the past 12 months.No, not Wiki whatnot. I mean this plan to make all councils tell us what they’ve spent over £500. I mean, how much information do you need to make sure your council isn’t blowing council tax on pile carpets and chocolate biscuits?Let’s get real.First, we all know councils spend money like water. It’s human nature.If you keep shoveling sacks of cash in their direction as the Government has been doing for the past 10 years, councils are going to find ways of blowing it – European officers, community outreach officers, officer liaison officers...And just as night follows day, of course, salaries will go into the stratosphere. It’s not the councillors’ money, so why should they care if they hire a geezer on £250k. It makes them look good, like they’re going for the best. Human nature, see.But now the tap’s been turned off, and suddenly councils are running around the place shutting down khazis, turning the lights off in libraries, and now the inside leg measurement of every town hall jobsworthy has got to be put online, as if that will make a blind bit of difference…
