"We are being sold off the the Banks".....I wonder what per cent the banks will add on in interest on that £200,000,000 loan.
So if I have understood correctly DDC want to pay a consultant two hundred thousand for "external professional support" so DDC can borrow two million to speculate on land and property.
If an ordinary person was to use this principle when trying to borrow money the banks would show them the door while thinking what an idiot.
An individual has the right to speculate with their own money, a council does not have the right to gamble with tax payers money 
