stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to World News@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoMan bought private jet with borrowed council moneywww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up1140arrow-down11file-text
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minus-squarethetreesaysbarklinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year ago The Audit Commission - a spending watchdog that stopped councils taking too many risks - was abolished in 2015. Probably not abolishing the thing that was literally there to stop this from happening. In fairness maybe this thing didn’t work, but surely some oversight would reduce ridiculous things like this from happening.
minus-squareAngrilyEatingMuffins@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down4·1 year agoThis is so circular I don’t even know where to begin.
Probably not abolishing the thing that was literally there to stop this from happening.
In fairness maybe this thing didn’t work, but surely some oversight would reduce ridiculous things like this from happening.
This is so circular I don’t even know where to begin.