More care

A wise builder always allows a sum for contingencies and we have learnt that earthquakes and inclement weather pay no attention to party manifestos.

We have got off relatively lightly in the Nottinghamshire County Council budget but the myriad of potholes in our roads will not be filled for free by the fairies.

Is the council’s budget “family friendly” to quote a senior politician? Or does that only apply to those of reproductive age?

Perhaps the main sin of too many of us is that we have lived too long, yet those to be hit hardest are not the generation that collected credit cards galore and ran up huge debts.

More thought and care rather than dogma would have been welcome.