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Niall Connolly's response to the Auditor's Report can be found by clicking the link 'Response to Auditor's Report'.

Taxpayer's Alliance covers the story here:Fearless Somerset Taxpayer | Grassroots | The TaxPayers' Alliance

Western Gazette coverage here:Somerton Town Council’s failures to follow proper procedures may have resulted in unlawful expenditure, says auditor’s report - Audit Commission

Audit Commission Press Release here:Somerton Town Council’s failures to follow proper procedures may have resulted in unlawful expenditure, says auditor’s report - Audit Commission

Report in the Public Interest here: Somerton Town Council: Report in the public interest - Audit Commission

BBC online covers the story here: BBC News - Somerton Town Council 'made unlawful decisions'

The Economic Voice covers the story here: Somerton Town Council failures | The Economic Voice

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If you believe that your Town or Parish Council (ie not Somerton) is behaving in a manner similar to Somerton's, please email information, in confidence, to Muck&Brass. Muck&Brass is collating such information in order to assess the scale of these problems, countrywide.

The publication of the External Auditor's 'Report in the Public Interest' in respect of Somerton Town Council illustrates the almost complete absence of any real accountability of our elected representatives.

Muck&Brass will consider the influences to which our processes of local government are subject. In part this is because it is ever more clear that the activities of the old Somerton Town Council are quite common-place across the United Kingdom. What is also clear is that the various supposedly regulatory bodies regulate within very strict limits. Those limits do little to constrain the ability of councillors to promote their own interests or those of their colleagues, business associates and friends.

Importantly, the changes proposed by the current Government, will lead to even less accountability, if such a thing is possible.

Sunday, 1 January 2012

All the very best........

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