Currency Reform

In Kent, the county where they suck things up, the Farage Falange flagship foray into local government seems to have run into another bit of bilge trouble. Having boasted in July about the squillions saved by scrapping two environmental projects, the unpurged remnants of the council have now admitted, after much pestering by a Labour MP, that the projects had not been started. The squillions in question were based on, or at any rate vaguely related to, "forward-looking assumptions within the capital programme rather than approved or committed schemes;" and the Kent cadre of the Farage Falange has not deigned to amass any bureaucratic documentation on the matter, thereby saving the hard-pressed taxpayer yet more unnecessary expense while freeing up more time for flag-related activities. Lucky residents will doubtless rejoice to find that protection from the non-existent migrant threat has been augmented by probity with non-existent finances. Still, it remains to be seen how much more of the council's budget has been drawn up according to the same convenient future-conditional principles, and whether the council will permit its constituents a similar degree of fiscal flexibility.