Or at very least it should be debated in some form, but it seems the council don't want to do it. It makes me wonder how eager they are to save money.

Perhaps we need some old and frail people on allotments, the council would soon start cutting services then!

why are you not a committee member of the wash common allotment society anymore.

He's told us on another thread.

Are you a teaspoon?

If it saves tax.

Like I said - get a campaign going.

He told you did he

My friend has mailed this, I thought you might be interested.

How am I biased? I have not got an allotment? I a not a politician or a councillor?
I am a taxpayer and would like to know that the taxpayers are getting value for money and if allotments can be run as effectively and for less cost then I am all for it.

Then if you class that as being biased then yes I must be?

Well it's 525 tenants, not plots...

still waiting for an answer

If you have something to say, get on with it.

Perhaps you are a Kenwood

I see what you did there, you believed the Council's figures didn't you.

They said the average allotment is 5.06 poles in area and costs £32.62, but at £6.94 per pole a plot of 5.06 poles should cost £35.12.

The Council's accounts show that they've taken £18,233 in rent, so if the average plot costs £32.62 then that suggests there are 559 plots, but if the average plot is 5.06 poles then that suggest there are 519 plots. As it happens the Council only refund outgoing tenants if they apply for a refund so some of that revenue comes from selling the same plot twice.

They also said they budgeted to subsidise the service with £42,500, but actually they budgeted to subsidise by £43,200, but they happened to generate £18,200 of revenue rather than the £17,500 they'd budgeted for.

Rather than these minor discrepancies it's probably more interesting to look at the £42,500 that self-management would have saved the tax-payer - and of course that doesn't include any apportionment of the several hundred thousand pounds of back-office admin and stuff that the Council didn't mention.

I felt I was embarrassing the Committee; generally because I believed the Council would not work with the Society whilst I was involved, and specifically because the Council had served me with a notice that my flag was breaking some imagined site rule and the Committee felt unable to support me.

Now, would you like to answer my question?

I know you can put people on "ignore" - but is there any way you can put a thread on "ignore"?

which one

http://forum.newburytoday.co.uk/index.php?...ost&p=35770

Yes, and you can start by coming up with a thread more interesting. Something about capitol punishment, severe gaols, ASBOs, gassing paedos, immigration and the like should suit you.

Lookout, the resident clown's about!

Is that what they call making someone listen to an American politician?

I already told you that i didn't say there was a campaign against you.