KCC Closes money wasting TV station

Kent County Council is to close its online TV station, Kent TV. The Internet venture, which costs a reported £600,000 a year to run, will close next month.

The  blend of website and TV station, which started in 2007, is to be closed as the council prioritises spending.

Kent County Council Leader Paul Carter said, "Kent TV has proved itself to be a brave and bold innovation and we have learned a great deal from it. It has provided a source of practical, useful information for residents. And it has particularly appealed to younger residents with its Sound Clash song-writing competition; its Animate and Create animation competition and its groundbreaking soap opera Hollywould, which tackled young people's health issues.

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Drowning in debt

The United Kingdom now has the world's worst debt problem. Yet still our talentless, venal, tribal politicians cannot grasp the damage their pathetic policies do. They scrabble around talking about cuts and investments whilst profligatly wasting hundreds of billions of pounds.

Two things are needed immediately. A 20% cut in public spending ( that's £120 billion) and a set of incentives to revitalise the private job and wealth creating sector.