Strange days in Hampshire. It seems the locals want their county council to spend £193,000 a year on a two-year broadband project even though they've cut their budget by £55m this year, including day care for adults with learning disabilities, care of the elderly, mobile libraries and Sure Start children’s centres for the under-fives.
Well that's up to the voters. It must be what they want - or why would their council do it?
Okay, I'm being ironic. But next time Ed Miliband criticises the government over councils' decisions and calls for more budgets to be ring-fenced again, let's remember that these decisions should be taken locally - and certainly not by Labour ministers who made such a mess of areas like education.
The priorities are down to Hampshire.
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