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LeftishBrit

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3. This is about the county where I live..
Wed Nov 11, 2015, 10:44 AM
Nov 2015

And it is all very true. However, I think one has to point some of the finger at long-term incompetent leadership in the County Council, especially Hudspeth's predecessor Keith Mitchell. While Hudspeth is just a typical Tory, Mitchell was positively malicious against any group that didn't vote for him: 'oiks' and 'rabble' on the one hand; 'deficit denying leftie' students and lecturers on the other; and basically anyone at all living in the Labour-controlled City of Oxford. And the council at a certain stage was notoriously financially confused, losing track of large sums of money and then suddenly finding it again, etc. This was all going on even during Labour national governments and before the recession. However, there is no doubt that Cameron, Osborne and their cuts are making matters much, much worse.

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