In isolation, your statement may tug at the heart-strings of some. However, if people trouble to read the reports from Sheffield, they will note that there is a multi-million Pound refurbishment of council offices imminent. It might well be concluded that councillors have created any “Budget Hell” themselves – and that those who are to experience the “Hell” are the citizens whose library service is being decimated, *not* the councillors and officers. Self-interest, vanity projects, payments to ‘consultants and other ill-advised disbursements of taxpayers’ money are rife in many of the local authorities who are grooming or bullying residents to pay twice for the statutory library service.