I am appalled that the Budget Headlines propose to cut the Welfare Rights Unit in favour of payments to ‘agencies that can help’. It has been my experience that our Welfare Rights Unit has expertise second to none and are compassionate and helpful to those in need. At this time of extreme hardship to many of our residents it seems to me to be a crassly stupid and uncaring thing to do.

Cllr Freer the Leader of Barnet Council has won Private Eye’s “Banker of the Year Award”, “One man who raised cluelessness to an art form was the Tory leader of the London borough of Barnet, Mike Freer. He told councillors that he couldn’t be blamed for the council losing £27.4m in dodgy Icelandic banks because he had never bothered to review the council’s investments. Ever. And in a former life he used to be, er, a banker. Quite.”

Cllr Freer the Leader of Barnet Council has won Private Eye’s “Banker of the Year Award”, The citation reads.

“One man who raised cluelessness to an art form was the Tory leader of the London borough of Barnet, Mike Freer. He told councillors that he couldn’t be blamed for the council losing £27.4m in dodgy Icelandic banks because he had never bothered to review the council’s investments. Ever. And in a former life he used to be, er, a banker. Quite.”

Cllr Freer the Leader of Barnet Council has won Private Eye’s “Banker of the Year Award”, The citation reads.

“One man who raised cluelessness to an art form was the Tory leader of the London borough of Barnet, Mike Freer. He told councillors that he couldn’t be blamed for the council losing £27.4m in dodgy Icelandic banks because he had never bothered to review the council’s investments. Ever. And in a former life he used to be, er, a banker. Quite.”