Idiocy!

Iain Dale today on his blog reports on a lack of common sense in local government.

West Sussex Council have undertaken to spend £80 a day to send a boy to the second choice school of his parents, because there is no bus. They live 350 yards outside the catchment area for their first choice school, which presumably is much nearer their home or for which there is a bus.

Isn't it kind of them? £400 per week for him to travel in comfort, or £16,000 each year or £80,000 over the school career in the lower school.

It's lunacy, but it could have been worse. Just imagine that there was a reciprocal movement in the opposite direction if West Sussex adopted the lottery!! (Was it them or Brighton which espoused this other nonsense?)

It would be interesting to discover what the hard pressed ratepayers think about this, as they scrabble together money to pay their ever increasing rate demands.