Midden.

Carnegie reads that the finger pointing has begun within Fife Council about the appalling state of the Council's finances and the consequent negative impact on the provision of council services.

"THE FUNDING crisis affecting Fife Council’s social work service has been blamed squarely on a “financial midden” left by the previous Labour administration. In a no-holds-barred attack, senior SNP councillor David Alexander claimed yesterday that the controversial decisions the council had been forced to take were a direct result of a “totally inadequate” budget pushed through by a discredited administration in February. He accused that administration of a “craven failure” to take difficult decisions before the local elections in May."

Carnegie will let Fifers decided whether this analysis is correct or is simply an attempt by the new administration to pass the buck back to its predecessor administration.

Carnegie liked Cllr Alexander's suggestion that those Labour Councillors who stood down at May's election hand back their £20,000 golden goodbyes which they got for standing down, but Carnegie suspects that really isn't very likely.