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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Birmingham Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Council manage to spend a staggering £1.2 million spent on library website<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> B1 1BB
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Sandwell Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Council reported to have spent £72 million on white elephant building; Labour council leader admits it was a mistake<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> B69 3DE
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Solihull Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Spent nearly £90,000 on cleaning up fly-tipping but failed to recoup any money in fines<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> B91 3QS
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Wiltshire Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Councillors vote to give themselves a pay-rise after making 252 staff redundant<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> Council leader tries in vain to defend a 36.5% increase in her allowances<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> BA14 8JN
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Mendip Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Council handed back £500k to developer after it failed to spend it in time<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> BA4 5BT
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Bournemouth Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Council manage to spend an unbelievable £200k redeveloping website<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> £86k of public money used on Welcome to Bournemouth Signs<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> BH2 6DY
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Bolton Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Council spend £3.5 million on refurbishing the town hall in the face of £35million budget cut<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> Bolton Council to spend £50,000 on consultants to help axe jobs<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> BL1 1RU
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Bury Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Grant from council used to buy Manchester United season ticket shows lack of competence when using public money<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> £130,000 spent on silencing former employees, the highest of which was over £18,000<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> BL9 0SW
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Bromley Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Tory council show disregard for environment by chopping down more trees than it plants<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> BR1 3UH
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> North Somerset Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Councillors spend public money hiring a consultant on a £100,000 salary in order to advise them how to cut costs<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> Facing £90 million of cuts, the council spend £80,000 on iPads<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> BS23 1UJ
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> East Cambridgeshire Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Council to spend £30,000 on former council official in order to find out how to save money<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> CB7 4PL
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Rhondda Cynon Taff Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> After claims of financial Armageddon, council spends an average of £126,000 on 5 top employees' leaving packages<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> CF40 2XX
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Caerphilly Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Council wastes £100,000 spying on its own employees<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> Council spend over £1 million on gagging orders over a period of ten years<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> CF82 7WF
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Cheshire West and Chester Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Chief Exec on £235,000 per year, 21 staff members on between £100k-£200k per year<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> CH1 2NP
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Wirral Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> £25,000 wasted on re-carpeting the Town Hall<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> Just under £1,000,000 spent on an "executive fire escape" and first-floor alterations whilst budget cuts are made<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> CH44 8ED
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Essex Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Spending public money on a trade delegation to China rather than focusing on local problems<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> Council spends £8.6million on consultants while it cannot stop the rising number of pot holes<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> CM1 1LX
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Croydon Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> The decadence of Tory councillors: £272 spent per tap in brand new £140million HQ<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> Conservative-run Croydon show financial mismanagement by failing to collect £35million in unpaid council tax<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> CR9 3JS
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Canterbury Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Council recommend that £17,000 be spent on mayoral robes<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> Council spend £19,000 buying glorified pooper scooper, which then costs £10,000 a year to run being used only two days a week<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> CT1 1YW
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Coventry Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Cash-strapped council spend thousands on iPads and iPhones<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> £10,000 spent on sending Lord on fact-finding mission to China while council debates multi-million budget cuts<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> CV1 5RR
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Derby Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> £60k spent on resurfacing bike path after just 1 complaint<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> Council rack up £450k of legal fees, at the taxpayers' expense, on row over tow path<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> DE1 2FS
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Derbyshire Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Residents protest against council wasting money on Installing road signs with irrelevant place names<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> Failing to follow up library fines; nearly quarter of a million in unpaid fines<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> DE4 3AG
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Durham Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Public pay for £12k a year clothing allowance to chief exec<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> Public pay for £12k a year clothing allowance to chief exec<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> DH1 5UF
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Darlington Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Cash-strapped council blow £9million on a car park and a loan<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> DL1 5QT
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> North Yorkshire Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Failure to deliver credible results in scheme to help troubled families as fewer than 100 people have found a job whilst on it<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> £68,000 of public money paid out in compensation for accidents at school<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> DL7 8AD
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Doncaster Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Unsuccessful public information kiosk scheme quietly scrapped after taxpayer picks up £600,000 bill<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> DN1 1BN
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> North Lincolnshire Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> 19 council employees earn over £100k per year, while one member of staff earns £327k<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> Council opposition concerned with Tory council's plan to use cash reserve to fund new budget<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> DN16 1AB
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> North East Lincolnshire Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Council fined £80,000 after incompetence led them to lose a memory stick with sensitive information about children on<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> DN31 1HU
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Dorset Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Parking fine for person helping someone with health problems<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> Waste of public money painting “wonky” road lines<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> DT1 1XJ
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Dudley Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> £5.5 million spent on council credit cards in one year to fund trips to KFC and McDonalds<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> Used public money to hire private investigators to spy on their own staff<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> DY1 1HF
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Waltham Forest Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> £610,000 spent on making councillors more comfortable in town hall refurbishments<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> Councillor sees his salary rise by 24% despite continuing budget cuts<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> E17 4JF
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Enfield Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Labour councillors take a taxpayer funded trip to the French Riviera<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> EN1 3XY
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Devon Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Sub-standard work on potholes means work has to be re-done, wasting public's money<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> EX2 4DD
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Blackpool Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Public's money ensures comfort for council employees as contract for office furniture is worth between £50k - £200k<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> FY1 1NF
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Glasgow Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Council accused of gross financial waste as they pay £50,000 for performances by “Z-list” celebrities<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> G2 1DU
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Cotswold Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> £19k spent on motivational magician<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> Planning appeals cost public £250,000 over the last two years<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> GL7 1PX
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Guildford Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Council embark on witch hunt for anonymous letter writer by fingerprinting employees, while the subject of one of the letters is given a pay off believed to be around £160,000<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> Original budget of £150,000 for aerial adventure course in public park is hopelessly ignored as it, at least, doubles in price<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> GU2 4BB
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Harrogate Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> £9million on new council offices in middle of residential estate<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> HG1 2SG
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Brent Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Council spends £250,000 of taxpayers' money on keeping libraries closed<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> £98,000 spent on a party to celebrate the opening of council's new offices<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> HA9 9HD
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Harrogate Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Council have already spent £885k on office move, before approval has been sough: if approved costs will rise to £10 million, if not £885k will become waste<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> HG1 2SG
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Herefordshire Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> While council face £4,000,000 overspend, they advertise a £500 a-day job for a temporary senior management position<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> Council spend £50,000 of public money on a bull sign as part of a re-branding exercise<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> HR1 1SH
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Hull Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Council spend a giddying £8.5k kitting out a room for Peter Mandelson<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> Mayor admits that his job is to “wine and dine” councillors - at the public's expense, of course<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> HU1 2AA
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> East Riding of Yorkshire Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Director of Corporate Resources earning over £400k per year, Chief Exec £200k, 7 employees £100k+<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> Despite claims of poverty, council has £1.1billion in cash reserves<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> HU17 9BA
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Suffolk Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Economic crisis leaves high earners untouched as £852k spent on bonuses<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> £4000 of public money spent so councillors can bond in castle<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> IP1 2BX
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Liverpool Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Council blunders badly after it bid for £10million grant to help with bin services, and then turned it down once it was offered<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> L2 2DH
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Leicester Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Council wasted £6,000 on hiring celebrities to appear at council events<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> LE1 6ZG
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Leicestershire Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> £200k thrown away on chauffeur services by irresponsible Conservative council<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> LE3 8RP
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Leeds Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Spends £1.8million on new website<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> Despite council having to cut budget by tens of millions, employee enjoyed an £8,000 all-expenses-paid trip abroad<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> LS1 1UR
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Salford Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Costs for hi-tech hub almost doubled from £8 to £14million, funded entirely through public's money<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> M27 5DA
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Trafford Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Refused to clear up dog mess in a public playground because it posed a health and safety risk to council workers<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> £34 million wasted on a new town hall as 1000 jobs cut from public services<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> M32 0TH
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Manchester Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Council staff waste £355 calling speaking clock, in what is both a waste of the public's time and money<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> £500,000 on private pop concert for councillors, footballers and VIPs<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> M60 2LA
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Kent Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Giving nearly £500k as a leaving package for council chief exec who only spent 16 months in post<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> Council wasted taxpayers' money by painting white lines on the road, then tarmacking over them<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> ME14 1XQ
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Medway Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> £7,000 wasted on hiring famous actor to provide voice-over for bus audio guide while trying to make £7 million cuts<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> Council planning to spend £4.4 million of taxpayers' money on developing Rochester Airport; opposed by nearly 80% of residents questioned<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> ME2 4AU
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> South Lanarkshire Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Wanting to keep its pay scale secret, the council has wasted £200,000 of taxpayers' money on a failed legal case<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> Council paid out the largest remuneration package in Scotland, 2011-2012, to outgoing chief exec to the tune of £543,000<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> ML3 0AA
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Islington Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Even as council workers jobs are cut, £40million has been spent on agency staff since 2010<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> While local government budgets are cut, Islington fritter away £133k on tea and biscuits over 3 years<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> N1 2UD
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Haringey Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Roads remain unfixed as council spend £65million on agency consultants<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> Council plan to spend £3,000 of taxpayers' money on yacht trip; actually trebles to £9,000<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> N22 8LE
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> North Tyneside Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Council wasted high street fund by buying a £1,500 Santa Claus<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> Council funded £1 million crane that has never been used<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> NE28 7RR
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> South Tyneside Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Spending a huge amount of taxpayers' money on legal fees chasing down a blogger who criticised the council<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> Over £5,000 of public money spent on parties towards the end of 2013<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> NE33 2RL
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Nottingham Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Despite cutting £83 million from their budget, council allots over £1million to repair a wall<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> Council to spend £13.7 million on redundancies, £4 million more than was spent on libraries<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> NG1 4BT
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Ashfield Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Despite people struggling to make ends meet, council sanctions £70,000 Christmas bonus bonanza<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> NG17 8DA
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Nottingham Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Spent money to pick conkers from a tree as they were deemed a health and safety risk<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> Council wastes £500k replacing pavements in order to encourage exercise<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> NG2 7QP
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Northamptonshire Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Running a class that teaches welfare for hamsters<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> Council commit £100k hiring specialist to oppose HS2<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> NN1 1DN
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Torfaen Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Council fail to sell-off £1 million worth of unused laptops paid for by the public<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> NP4 6YB
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Barnet Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Council ignoring the health of children as schools fail hygiene tests<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> NW4 4BG
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Oldham Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Huge overspend on park redevelopment funded by the public<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> £6k on new carpet for council chief, paid for by the taxpayer<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> OL1 1UG
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Rochdale Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> £500,000 spent on suspended staff between 2011 and 2013 as budget takes sizeable cut<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> Struggling council pay £27,000 for consultancy agency, who – in turn – recommend raising Chief Exec's salary by £40,000<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> OL16 1LQ
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Tameside Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> £5000 spend on teaching council staff how to walk despite having to slash their budget and services<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> Over £5,000 spend on an iPhone app that only 222 people have downloaded<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> OL6 6DL
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> King's Lynn and West Norfolk Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Council spend £600,000 a year keeping local theatre open despite record ticket sales<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> PE30 1EX
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Plymouth Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Council fined £60,000 for sending classified information about a child protection case to the wrong recipient<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> £437,000 spent on designing and maintaining council website amidst job cuts<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> PL1 2EW
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Gosport Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Council plans to spend £100,000 cleaning pond but faces opposition from local environment groups<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> £100,000 plans to pay company to refurbish local ice rink<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> PO12 1EB
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Fareham Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> £300,000 of public's money spent on consultancy company in order to improve its customer service<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> PO16 7PP
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> West Sussex Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Public money used to quench council employees' thirst as £78k on refreshments<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> Spending £100k on making "absurd" videos<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> PO19 1RQ
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Sefton Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> £1.1 million on renting accommodation while Southport town hall remains effectively empty<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> Ignoring a proposal to save a local library that would cost £43,000 and then spending £70,000 to demolish it<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> PR8 1DA
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Reading Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Leader of council takes “a dim view” of the people she represents in dispute over council tax hike<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> RG1 7TD
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Bracknell Forest Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Director of Environment, Culture and Communities on £134,000 per year at the expense of the taxpayer<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> RG12 1AQ
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Horsham Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> £1150 spent on 2 llamas to graze on a field with sheep, as well as £575 on fish for a pond<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> RH12 1RL
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Sheffield Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Huge costs relating to refurbishment of council buildings; including £17k on chairs<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> £4.7 million on consultants in 12 months amidst job cuts and budgetary pains<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> S10 5NA
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Rotherham Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> As of July 2012, since 2007, the council had spent over £1 million in compensation claims. This includes £27k for people falling off chairs.<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> Spends £644,000 of council tax-payers' money on chauffeur-driven cars<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> S60 2TH
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Neath Port Talbot Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Council wastes £730,000 on replacing wheelie bins with smaller versions, while having to make millions of pounds of savings<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> SA13 1PJ
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Southwark Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Council spend £11,000 on plastic cups despite pocketing £36million in funds that could be used for public servcies<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> SE5 8UB
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Lewisham Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Labour council's lack of concern for the environment shown as it is reported to be the least green council<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> SE6 4RU
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Stevenage Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Council waste £63,000 of taxpayers' money on canopy labelled eyesore<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> SG1 1HN
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Hertfordshire Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> 12 six-figure redundancy packages to council employees: one of which received £500k after only 20 months in the job<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> £7million spent on protecting empty buildings rather than putting them to good use<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> SG13 8DE
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Central Bedfordshire Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> 10 members of staff on over £100k per year, 1 on over £200k per year<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> SG17 5TQ
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Cheshire East Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Chief Exec on over £200k per year, 15 other staff members between £100k-£200k per year<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> £210k squandered building 2 ponds in order to create habitat for some newts<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> SK10 1DP
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Slough Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> £26,000 spent by cash-strapped council on spy plane with heat sensitive cameras to find illegal immigrants<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> SL1 3UQ
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Swindon Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> In the face of sky-rocketing budget cuts, council spends £17,000 on bottled water<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> Mayoral office racks up astounding £110,000 worth of expenses in one year<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> SN1 2JH
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Hampshire Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> 1400 made redundant, £220,000 spent on streaming equipment to view council meetings on Youtube<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> Spending £250k on WW1 gun boat refurbishment while cutting 1,700 jobs<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> SO23 8UJ
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Sunderland Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Spent £210,000 of public's money on flights<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> SR2 7DN
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Staffordshire Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Spent £40 million on a business park that is largely empty<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> Council play fast and loose with public's money as £40k spent on giant granite balls to protect council building from ram-raiders and terrorists<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> ST16 2LH
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Stoke-on-trent Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> £10k of public's money spent on motivational texts for obese people<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> ST4 1HH
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Wandsworth Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Residents accuse council of not being impartial, and dismissing their concerns when it comes to planning proposals<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> SW18 2PU
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Westminster Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Council waste taxpayers' money on 23cm double yellow lines<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> Advertising for a tutor in “Ukrainian egg decoration” on their job website; teaching qualification needed<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> SW1E 6QP
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Lambeth Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Taxpayer-funded press campaign that depicted fictional baby deaths branded “sick”<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> SW2 1RW
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Shropshire Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> £360,000 spent on iPads in order to save £20,000 in pens and paper<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> SY2 6ND
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Somerset Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Council's judgement called into question as they spend £5.5million settling a dispute with a company hired to help save them money<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> Irony abounds as £40k spent on consultations about how to save money<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> TA1 4DY
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Telford and Wrekin Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Council refuse to sell off lucrative property in order to reduce debt of £200 million<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> TF3 4LD
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Redcar and Cleveland Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> £1.6 million spent on “vertical pier” causing outcry amongst residents<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> Pedestrian access to council building branded “walk of shame” after costing £36,000 to build<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> TS6 1SF
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Hounslow Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Council gave green light for couple to have £20,000 solar panels on their house only to reverse their decision after they were put up.<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> Millions of taxpayers' money spent on LED street lights that residents say are too bright<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> TW3 4DN
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Hillingdon Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Council continues to remove people from Band D of housing waiting list at the same time as 500% increase in “rough sleepers”<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> UB8 1UW
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Hammersmith and Fulham Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Financial apathy from council as proposed flyunder could cost somewhere between “£218million to £1.7 billion”<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> W6 9JU
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Wakefield Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Planning to spend £100,000 on Tour de France, even though it won't pass through Wakefield<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> WF1 2HQ
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Wigan Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> £23,000 wasted on an ambassador to Wigan's twin town in France<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> WN1 1YN
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Worcestershire Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> £110k on pot hole compensation due to poor road servicing from council<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> Rather than actually solving the problem, council spends £1,000 on parody video about road damage<br>
<b>Postcode:</b> WR5 2NP
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<b>Party:</b> Labour<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_red<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Wolverhampton Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> Council wastes money and paper warning residents about wasting paper<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b> WV1 1SH
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<b>Party:</b> Conservative<br>
<b>Colour:</b> large_blue<br>
<b>COUNCIL:</b> Croydon Council<br>
<b>Spent money on:</b> £410 spent on an umbrella wrapping machine<br>
<b>&gt;:</b> <br>
<b>Postcode:</b>
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