After the County Council elections in June I wrote “For many year both LIBDEMs and Conservative County Councillors have critisised the amount spent by the County’s publicity department which often seems to promote the party in power. [we are talking big money here in total in excess of £1 million]

So what does the new Tory County Council do as one of its first acts. It abolished Derbyshire Insight with its red masthead [so far so good] but produced a very similar propaganda sheet now call Derbyshire First with a blue masthead [so far so bad] The cost of producing and delivering this to every household in Derbyshire was probably about £40,000. The Tories claim they will put more money into repairing roads and pavements. Well there’s £40000 less than would otherwise have been available.”

Well they did it again in September so thats at least £80,000 less available now.