(en) Britain, AF, The Bristoloan V4 , #2 - Massive markets overspend provides food for fraud

Why is Facilities Management leaking money like a sieve? ---- More news on Tony ?The 
Toerag? Harvey, the council?s self-perking Facilities Manager following last issue?s 
expos? of his parking charge dodge. ---- Now we can exclusively reveal he?s a lot more 
careful with own money - about ?50k a year from public funds - than he is with ours. 
Accounts published in November reveal that the Toerag?s Facilities Management department 
is overspent by an incredible ?602,000 ? racked up in just eight months! Much of which - 
?283,000 - he hasn?t even bothered to account for. ---- The accounts do show, however, 
that the Toerag spent ?104k on sacking staff and paying out redundancy - and that he 
overspent ?51,000 on markets, which, er, are supposed to earn us money! So why exactly 
have council taxpayers been subsidising The Toerag?s personal St Nick?s Market fiefdom to 
the tune of ?1,500 a week?

The markets overspending doesn?t stop there: in
a special separate column in the accounts listed
as ?Other income? we find Harvey recording a
further ?165,000 loss as ?Markets
Licence income shortfall?. That?s a ?shortfall? of
about ?5k a week. What?s on earth has The Toerag
been up to with our money?

One possible explanation comes from the local
branch of Unison. In an open letter to Mayor
Gorgeous before the budget they said: ?We have
just had a situation in markets, with a deficit of
?200,000 that may well turn out to be fraud...?

So that?s all right then. Especially when you
discover that another one of The Toerag?s areas of
responsibility is... City Council security and cash
collection. Your money safe in their hands? Ha!