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Another Tory council goes bust
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IN FEBRUARY of this year I reported that my own county council, Northamptonshire, had quite simply gone bust. Now it seems, just as I predicted, that another Tory council, Torbay in Devon, has run out of money too.
In Northampton Tory government cuts had driven this Tory council to issue a section 114 notice — the nearest thing to bankruptcy for a local authority, which by law are not allowed to actually declare themselves insolvent.
At 10 to five on Friday evening, when most staff had packed up and were heading for home, the cowardly management — some of whom would later get even more in golden handshakes — announced the news that the County of Northamptonshire had gone bust.
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