What constitutes failure?

摘要

It is hard to get away from Northampton-shire as the local government story of the week, the month, possibly the year. Given that it is the best part of 20 years since a council last issued a Section 114 notice, it could even be the story of the decade.In many ways the response to what has happened has been dispiriting. The debate quickly became polarised between those - including the county's seven MPs - who claimed this was purely about bad decision-making in Northamptonshire and those who saw it as symptomatic of a deeper structural problem with local government funding.