Northamptonshire now forced to pay the price of a reckless half-decade – The Guardian
Northamptonshire county councils catastrophic financial collapse, and the desperate measures it now proposes to balance the books, reflect management incompetence on a grand scale as well as the punishing effects of eight years of austerity cuts. Less than six months after it was declared technically insolvent, the Tory-run council now faces a sobering reckoning for…