Tory spending plans approved

How about using that money to improve pavements and crossings on the island which are an absolute joke. Or keep it until i sue the council for some bad crossings in newport in which i have almost come out of my wheelchair from hitting the enormous holes in the road and just been missed being run over!!!!!!!!!!!

Just who does MR Pugh think he is? Savings had to made of £17mil but suddenly we have an underspend of £2.3 mil, a lot of money that could be used for much better purposes than those agreed by the Council as reported on page 13.Perhaps the Council failed to read the article on the front page informing them that the Coucil has to find savings of another £20mil. Then MR Pugh has the indencey to state that "We must continue to be as efficient as possible and our critics better get used to it". Excuse me MR Pugh: have you forgotten who you are and who put you there? We, the tax payers pay your wages and supply you with the money to spend on our services. Do not forget that. Also, you seem to have forgeotten that we are a democracy, or perhaps you think that you above a that and have decided that you have set up a dictatorship. I sincerely hope that the Islanders get together and vote you out at the next election before your delusions of grandeur become psychosis.

VOTE VOTE VOTE When a counciler gets voted in by 39 votes to 6 who is to blame I dare bet all the above or below my remarks are quilty of not voting at local level for their represenative you deserve all you reap sorry

there is something very fishy with pugh and his band of dodgy cronies.Too many secrets too many lies. Definitrly needs investigating. And not by themselves

Why not save this to reduce our council tax in 2013/14 or offset it towards all the loans the LA need to pay off. Why, spend, spend, spend when you have debts outstanding!

(Cont'd) until sombody finds a sensible use for it. Have you considered asking the public (you know, those nasty, common people outside County Hall) what they would like?

There is an offence - Theft by Finding. I wonder if the CPS could be persuaded to have a chat with Cllr Pugh and his fellow robber barons?

Beach Huts?? Really that is the best you can do with OUR money....? We have sacraficed at lot of brutal cuts as a collective county, yet the whizz kids in County Hall propose to spend the excess on something so frivilous that only a few (elite) residents(?) will benefit from. Once again this goes to prove how out of touch with the average resident these politicians are...crooked, self-serving...and wimps! The rich get richer.........

Shame on you IOW Council!
Having got your sums wrong and taken more than you give back to the Island, you are behaving like a child who has found a fiver in the street and is off to the shops to spend it - with no regard for who it belongs to. Except, in this case, we know exactly who the 2.3 million belongs to, don't we. The answer is simple. Give it back.

This administration needs reminding of their role. They are there to represent the views of their consituents, not their own personal agenda. Beach huts? Pah! Issue an acceptable design and let people buy land and build their own huts if they want them (nice little earner too). 'Celebrating the IOW'? While we are confronted by volunteeers collecting food for local families that cannot feed themselves in 21st century England, there are more appropriate things to consider than parties for civic peacocks to parade themselves at.

If you won't give the money back (as I am sure is the case) then keep it and earn interest on it

another scam bullied through by Pugh....How much have you really got hidden away in the cupboard for a rainy election day Mr. Pugh.

This is our money, not spent by our incompetant council who proceeded instead on a swathe of un-precedented cuts in services

Who are the abstainers working for? waste of space and tax payers money. Too scared, too stupid or just dont care enough to bother to vote.

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