Thurrock council, found to have recklessly put hundreds of millions of pounds into commercial investments
And the other recently bankrupt councils, Croydon being one I know of and also possibly Lewisham(?).
But here’s the thing, afaik, those councils were encouraged to make those investments by central government. They may even have been heavily pressured to do so.
Whether there was pressure for any particular investments, I can’t easily tell. But I’m fairly certain that if you suggest to local authority administrators who have as much knowledge as anyone else about it, ie fuck all, that to increase your budget you should invest it, they will make terrible investments and it will end in tears.
I always start with the default that it’s government corruption first. If others know more I’m happy to hear it, but .gov are guilty until proven innocent.
Sorry, depressing. Because my answer isn’t going to alleviate that feeling. As a victim of depression myself, I wouldn’t want to increase that in someone else.
It's a trap. (feddit.uk)
Lawyers raise alarm at struggle to tackle UK local government corruption (www.theguardian.com)
Water bills to rise above inflation in April (www.bbc.co.uk)
If you had to choose between ONLY the jerboah app or the boost app for lemmy, which would you choose and why ?
If there were no other options between those two apps for lemmy, which one would be your go to?
Mastodon security update: every version prior to today's is vulnerable to remote user impersonation and takeover - Lemmy.ca (lemmy.ca)
Fyi
(Edit - it's over, for now.) Why are there so many cracked software spam posts in the last few days?
I know spam posts have been around for a while but not like this....