Budget Da Vinci conspiracy

The budget process in County Hall took a bizarre turn today when it emerged that the councillors’ copy of the Evening Post had been censored to remove all reports of Swansea Council’s budget crisis.

A copy of the Evening Post is put in the Members & visitors Lounge at County Hall every day together with the Western Mail and the Independent.

Cllr David Phillips said, “The Post has been disappearing all this week whilst the Budget stories have been running. But today takes the biscuit. The pages reporting yesterdays Cabinet Meeting and related Budget issues had been removed from the paper completely whilst the Editorial comment had been torn out. If only the budget crisis could be resolved as easily as tearing out the difficult pages!

But Cllr Phillips was determined to find out what he wasn’t supposed to know. However, when he finally got his hands on a copy, at first glance he found nothing other than the usual balanced report. He said, “But then I saw it. With the help of my Dan Brown Da Vinci Code book and a bit of advance numerology I cracked the message. It said, “Help us please, we have no idea what we are doing”.

Cllr Phillips said, “I know Chris Holley is a conspiracy theorist and loves a bit of mystery, but he really didn’t need to put it in code. Most of the people of Swansea already know he’s lost the plot!”