On Monday, the Lib Dems managed to kibosh an earlier claim of putting the city on the front-line of the knowledge economy when they back pedalled on their Service@Swansea ambitions – whilst announcing a cut-price deal to piggyback onto a Cardiff based call centre.
By Friday, we read that the council’s ‘IT partners’ are preparing a whopping great claim for project delays and which the Beans on Toast states could result in a "significant financial impact" on council funds.The paper continues with the point that this latest chapter in the controversial scheme comes just weeks after the council dismissed the possibility of any penalty charges for dropping the second phase.
Earlier in the week, Chris Holley and Mary Jones were attempting to spin their failure to deliver a viable second phase as some sort of saving – instead of putting their hands up to a crap outcome.
No wonder that C.Soloman of Uplands feels that one unilateral action deserves another.
We know that the Spinning Chicken crowd get very upset when we use words like ‘incompetent’, but somehow ‘unlucky’ doesn’t quite capture the moment, does it?
Update: We note that all reference to today's disclosures has disappeared off the EP website. We suspect that there might be an issue of semantics involved but no doubt the Lib Dem spinners will elucidate - once they've got over their pouting.
