Fine Print A YouTube Channel Exposing Less Than Best Practice In The UK
Birmingham City Council estimated that to upgrade an IT system would cost £19 million. The final bill looks like it might be closer to £200+ million. The consequence the council cannot afford to repair the roads which are all full of potholes. Amazingly they can find money for speed humps, but they do not repair the road before installing the speed humps, meaning they will be damaged more quickly.
Sadly depressing, even when you explain how the job should be done they are not interested.
Croydon Council spent £200 million pounds and ended up with 3 properties, and they were given the land to build on for a pound a plot. Transparency and good practice seem to be absent from Croydon Council during this period of governance.
One man borrowed £1.8 billion in your name… and got an OBE for it.
Woking Borough Council is now the most indebted local authority in British history. Every household in the borough is on the hook for roughly £45,000 they never agreed to. The man responsible? He retired with a full pension and a medal from the King.
This is the story of how one council CEO turned a quiet Surrey town into a financial black hole… and how the system that was supposed to stop him just watched it happen.
Every few days the Fine Print YouTube channel publishes another story where the leaders enjoyed very generous pay packages, spend money very unwisely and created huge financial problems. Andy Roberts not does just cover financial mismanagement but data breach issues and things which might be described as “not what should happen in Britain”.
If the huge waste of public / taxpayer money makes you angry you possibly might want to avoid watching this content, it seems very few people in a position of power in the UK are concerned about these issues.