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Originally Posted by jaysay

I've been off line for two days and Mancie has made a storm in a tea cup over a misplaced decimal point, for Christ's sake don't go into politics full time Mancie you'll be contender for Prime Minister

Perhaps sloppy handling of figures is a party issue.

Your little chum struggled with commas and decimal points, when he made this post, which changed millions into thousands.

Originally Posted by TheLeadersOffice HBC

In 2008/09, the Council's budget was £15,097. This year it will be £15,427. This is an increase in our spend of only 2.2%. The reason why our precept is to increase by 4.95% is because Government funding to the Council has only been increased by 1.5% and the rest of the money has to be found from the local taxpayer. If the Government had given us the amount it has claimed in the national press, it would have been possible to set a zero percent increase this year in Hyndburn.

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These are the facts, you can now argue over them as much as you wish but it won't alter the figures.

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/n...reply&p=691676

The Devil is in the detail.