Will BOSH plan be tosh plan...?

Here we go again ...
Tonight’s meeting of Boston Borough Council’s cabinet is looking at yet another get together to save money and improve services.
A report recommends that the gang of eight agrees arrangements for a south-east Lincolnshire joint committee to produce the local development framework for the combined areas of Boston and South Holland.
A joint committee would enable a “more strategic” vision for south-east Lincolnshire through the LDF up to 2026 and take a unified approach to the promotion and growth of an area which has cross border implications.
Of course, there are financial savings to be made, and the report says a total of £375,000 can be saved over five years.
There will also be no need to fill two vacant posts, which would save another £84,000 – or £433,000 over five years.
If the cabinet backs the idea,  the full council on November 15th will be asked to approve a formal request to the government.
If some of this sounds familiar, regular readers may well recall events of around a year ago, when Boston appeared all set to share a number of services with South Holland and East Lindsey district councils.
The merger would have saved millions, but fell apart at the eleventh hour when it was realised that Boston’s parlous finances made it impossible.
At the time, South Holland was particularly scathing towards their Boston colleagues, with leader Gary Porter accusing Boston Leader Richard Austin of “misinforming” the council when the decision was taken to pull out of the deal by feeding colleagues “rumour and ill informed gossip.”
More recently in a discussion at County Hall, Councillor Eddie Poll, Executive Councillor for Economic Development, couldn’t resist a poke at Boston when he said: "I have to say that the comments about Boston quite struck me that there were certain parallels with Rome - in that, all roads allegedly lead to Rome - and I think that Boston thinks that all roads lead to Boston. I couldn't but help but extend that parallel a bit further and see that the current administration kind of reminds me of Emperor Nero"
Perhaps relations have thawed since then or …. does South Holland know something we don’t know?
We note from the report that if the idea goes ahead the new joint committee won’t be up and running until after next May’s council elections – at which time there will certainly be another group in power in Boston.
Meanwhile, if anyone wants a suggestion for a merger between Boston and South Holland, could we offer ... BO-SH.

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