Cornwall Council recently announced they'd be putting up council tax by the maximum amount allowed. 

With the cost of living crisis seeing more and more people struggling to cope with sky-rocketing outgoings, it really does make you wonder, who do these people think we are?

The hot air coming out of New County Hall is getting to the point where it is almost indistinguishable from the putrid stench that plumes out of Whitehall.

Is this what happens when the richest MP in the country becomes Prime Minister? Does Rishi Sunak not understand that not everyone in the country is as eye-watering-ly rich as he is? If the way this cost of living crisis is being handled is anything to go by, it would seem he does not. 

You would hope that, as one Cornwall Councillor remarked during the budget vote this week, Cornwall Council's cabinet would act as if it were "Cornwall’s voice in Whitehall, not Whitehall’s voice in Cornwall."

Perhaps, instead of inflicting more financial misery on the people of Cornwall; instead of outright refusing to provide the leisure facilities that many rely upon for a brief moment of respite; instead of emptily echoing the tired script of party politics, they might actually have a go at serving the people whose lives they so thoughtlessly meddle with. 

Sadly, this doesn't appear as if it will be the case anytime soon, as those in power at New County Hall seem to be as taken in by their own flatulence as their multi-millionaire colleagues in central government.