Hello all, and a happy new year to you.
 
I would like to take this opportunity for wasting the money that I and all the other people who live in Nottingham, have paid you in "council tax" over the past few years.
Thank you for the beach in the square, that was money well spent! It really did get people spending, which is essential in the current financial climate. For all the good it did, you may as well have paid a chorus line of bankers to stand on a platform in the market square and tickle their testicles for all to see for the entire summer.
Thanks for the "Dickensian" Market that you put on at christmas,it really did get people spending, which is essential in the current financial climate. Although, I seem to remember in previous years it was known as, "The Traditional German Market". I wouldn't imagine for one second that you bent to the will of xenophobia in making the decision to change the name and format, I mean, after all, we are a cultured city!
So cultured in fact, that you took even more of that "council tax" money you collected from us all, and put up a massssssssive erection (the nottingham eye?) so we could all pay £5.00 (hang on, havent we already paid for this out of our council tax?) to see the splendour of the city from a birds eye view. "Oh look...there's Maid Marion way, look how awful it looks from up here"..."look over there, you can see EXACTLY how much bird poo accumilates on top of the council house...they'd better use our council tax money to clean all of that off soon!".
And speaking of splendour....Thank you for paying for all of those new, relevant and vibrant acts to come and play at Woolaton Park for us! I mean, the "Pet Shop Boys"? They really do capture the zeitgeist of todays music culture. Also, it really did get people spending, which is essential in the current financial climate. And you priced the tickets so reasonably too! Only £15 for an adult city resident (hang on....haven't we already paid for this with our council tax?). I mean, you could argue that with us being such a cultured city, it might've been more productive to give the opportunity of playing such an event to some of the hungry, raw, relevant and naturally talented artists and musicians that are languishing away in the vacuous, fund-starved blackhole that is Nottingham's art and music scene, but no...we won't open that particular can of worms this time around.
And finally (because I'd hate to take up too much of your time, you probably have puppies to drown and kittens to kick), thank you for withdrawing essential funding for organisations that house and support the most vulnerable people in our communities.
Thank you for the short sighted decisions that you have made that will lead to the decommisioning of essential city services that house homeless men and women. Men and women that will ultimately become homeless once more, and put your rough sleeping stats through the roof. Thank you for costing hundreds of people like me their jobs, people who made it their lives and jobs to care for our communities everyday. People, who instead of recieving thanks for their efforts, will receive redundancy notices.
 
So thanks for wasting all of that money on all of those irrelevent events, when it could've been put to use in keeping essential social care services alive.
 
Still, now that im going to be unemployed, at least you'll be paying my council tax for me eh?
 
Ta.

I am one of the many workers in Nottingham's voluntary sector facing redundancy after the proposed draconian cuts to the supporting people budget. My colleagues and i work for one of Nottinghams leading housing associations who house the vast majority of the most vulnerable people in our community. people who now face homelessness and hopelessness because of a myriad of appalling decisions made by those who we elect to "represent our interests".

I sent this email to the "have your say" email address listed on the city council's website because i wanted to vent my spleen at them, and i am sharing it with you because i feel the need to highlight how our local government has insulted and appeased its people.

Now, just bare in mind that the supporting people budget had its ring fence removed last year. this means that rather than that pot of money being soley used to fund social care in nottingham, the removal of the ring fence means that the council can spend it however it pleases on whatever it pleases. Also bare in mind Jon Collins, the leader of our local (labour) government has also apparently lied about the amount of money that has been cut. He is telling us all that a figure of 45% needs to be cut, when in reality, it has been found that the actual figure is only 11%. I ask you....what designs does Jon Collins have on the remaining 34%?. well...He certainly doesnt want it spent on housing the homeless, who will once again be back on our streets as of April.

*Governments should be afraid of their people, and not the other way around*