Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
Here’s what he was up to in January this year ??
A big drop in the number of rough sleepers in Brighton and Hove is to be investigated after a request by three opposition councillors.
They said that the number of rough sleepers had been misrepresented after a change to the way that they were counted.
Conservative councillors Robert Nemeth, Mary Mears and Nick Taylor asked for ‘an urgent investigation’ into the way in which the number was ‘calculated and represented’ by Labour-run Brighton and Hove City Council.
The count – in November – suggested that there were 64 people sleeping on the streets locally, down from 178 a year earlier.
Cllr Nemeth told the council’s Audit and Standards Committee at Hove Town Hall: “Councillor Mears, Taylor and I would be so pleased if rough sleeping figures had fallen but there were two different counting methods used.
“This led to misleading reporting, disputed by various homeless experts.
What's funny is the methodology for counting rough sleepers has been passed down by central government who are this week crowing about how homeless statistics are falling. It would be interesting if Nemeth indirectly reveals that the Tory figures are actually BS through his local government swipe at a Labour run authority. I'm not sure he is fully prepared for the step up in politics to be honest.