Mathematician John Allen Santos in his seminal book 'innumeracy: mathematical illiteracy and its consequences' bemoans the negative impact on human progress of a general inability to 'do numbers'.
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/01/books/the-odds-are-you-re-innumerate.html?pagewanted=all In the case of Tory run Notts County Council UNISON East Midlands has unearthed a prime example.
The County Council claims a £33m hole in its budget and is making savage cuts to services. The East Midlands region and the local branch have exposed these cuts for what they really are - an ideological decision to cut services that has nothing to do with money. The region's Local Government Matters blog gives the full details here:
http://unison-em-locgov.blogspot.com/2010/01/notts-county-council-cuts-have-nothing.html
As you will see UNISON have already been able to identify £24m of "easy money" for the council - and the union thinks there could be more money to be found.
If this Tory council is proposing such savage cuts when there is no real need to, imagine what a Tory government led by David Cameron would be like?
