The Dover rag

• Guest 745

  • Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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  15 September 2013     11:30244792
  #1      
  I see in the rag that the council have splashed £18000 on consultants to advise them haw to ,,save money,,
  
  I hope its not the same consultants that advised them to splash £94'000 on a turbine generator, that ended up in the skip
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  15 September 2013     12:10244797
  #2      
  have you a link to that keith as i don't remember seeing it?
  
  mind you i was probably too taken aback by the editor's claim the the express website broke the news of the aycliffe bomb scare when in fact this forum broke it thanks to brian.
  
  integrity? wherefore art thou?
• Guest 710

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  15 September 2013     12:17244800
  #3      
  There was an old woman who lived in a shoe
  with budgetary constraints, she did not know what to do
  
  Personal expenses aside, with so many to feed
  which child should go hungry, a scapegoat, her need
  
  Social services would fall on her, whatever choice she did make
  how best to proceed, and how best to onus forsake
  
  All her children were precious, but yet one she must starve
  she lit a cigar and mused, how least blameworthy her cake she should carve
  
  In a flash she hit on a ruse whereby the deed could be done, sans blame resultant
  she thumbed through the phone book for a Management Consultant
  
  With much joy, and no little sense of relief, and to rapturous applause
  the cutest child withered, but none thought her the cause.
  
  Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
• Guest 745

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  15 September 2013     15:24244817
  #4      
  Front page howard
• howard mcsweeney1

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  15 September 2013     15:33244819
  #5      
  that was about a consultation not consultants keith if my memory serves me correct.
• Guest 745

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  15 September 2013     15:35244820
  #6      
  I could be wrong ,it happen some times
• howard mcsweeney1

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  15 September 2013     15:40244821
  #7      
  this was all about asking us to tick boxes on what services we think are more important than others and they take heed.
  
  the results are taken into account and filed away safely in the shredding machine.
• Guest 745

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  15 September 2013     15:45244823
  #8      
  Couldn't they have a tick box bit on the tax bills ,then only them that pay will have the say ??
• Guest 756

  • Registered: 6 Jun 2012
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  15 September 2013     17:32244828
  #9      
  I remember watching with horror as DDC appointed, at no small cost, a consultant to carry out a consultation by a private company. I had trained two of the consultants on how to carry out the process and they would not agree to retain my post to cover the consultation time. It would have saved them money.
• Paul Watkins

  • Location: Dover
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  15 September 2013     18:03244835
  #10      
  Keith B , the wind turbine was paid for by external grants and cost DDC council tax payers nothing directly on council tax. Likewise the Big Screen cost DDC nothing for screen or installation.
  
  Watty
• Guest 745

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  15 September 2013     18:11244836
  #11      
  paul
  
  Who paid for the grant ??
• Paul Watkins

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  15 September 2013     18:22244838
  #12      
  A government dept and the former development agency I believe.may have been a third source but notDDC
  
  Wattty
• Guest 977

  • Registered: 27 Jun 2013
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  15 September 2013     19:20244840
  #13      
  I mentioned before that I tried it and gave up because I thought it was confusing in its aims and badly thought out.
  
  After speaking to the chairman I tried it again and persevered to the end - I now think it's even worse than I initially thought, glad to hear we didn't pay for it but sincerely hope no notice is paid of the results!
• Guest 649

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  15 September 2013     19:27244843
  #14      
  Yes I was going to write about this one,just to say that they could have half that cost or even more by giving it to a school as a project the schools need cash and they would have done a good job on this one by sending out 15 to 18years old and they would have like to do it to, any school would have taken that on for £5000 or less.
• howard mcsweeney1

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  15 September 2013     20:07244848
  #15      
  i am totally confused again, are we talking about the big screen, wind turbine or the consultation?
• Guest 977

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  15 September 2013     20:12244850
  #16      
  I was returning to talking about the consultation and cheekily suggesting I hope we hadn't we hadn't paid for it after Paul's comment!
• Guest 904

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  16 September 2013     09:28244889
  #17      
   Keith Bibby wrote:

  Couldn't they have a tick box bit on the tax bills ,then only them that pay will have the say ??

  Can't do that Keith, Terry Clear would get quite indignant....
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• Keith Sansum1

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  16 September 2013     23:27244967
  #18      
  confusing thread aint it
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