It would be monstrous if that money saw another splurge in local authority spending.
He has invaded the privacy of countless people, not only politicians, and has splurged stories all over the broadsheet press.
Can we look again at some way to improve our budgetary arrangements, so that they do not cause that last-minute splurge?
In this day and age, it strikes me as odd that such an organisation should be allowed to splurge our money in this way.
We do not want any more splurges, with companies buying typists' chairs and desks at the end of the financial year.
The result was a splurge of national newspaper advertising, at vast expense.
That explosion of credit had the effect of inflating the house market, and it led to a splurge of consumer spending.
Yet we have seen, and are seeing, in the splurge of this final fortnight, the reverse of that.
