Collaboration with, and close consultation of, the communities that local councils govern was hailed as the way to improve public services and engagement at a time of huge spending cuts. (totalpolitics.com)
We were linked with a move to sign the French international, but it is difficult to justify such huge spending. (justarsenal.com)
Now we were in the midst of the crash so no - one was expecting huge spending giveaways but we were not behaving like the agents of change we once were. (totalpolitics.com)