No jam for tomorrow

摘要

I he Canadian singer-songwriter, Leonard Cohen, has denied being a pessimist, suggesting he thinks of a pessimist as 'someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.' After reading the Local Government Association's (LGA) dryly titled Funding outlook for councils from 2010/11 to 2019/2o: Preliminary modelling, it would be easy to feel that not only were you already soaked to the skin, but that the water was neck high and still rising.