{"id":2420,"date":"2013-11-08T18:23:48","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T18:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=2420"},"modified":"2013-11-08T18:36:07","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T18:36:07","slug":"fat-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=2420","title":{"rendered":"Fat Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hat-tip to BrownhillsBob:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2421\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2421\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brownhillsbob.com\/2013\/11\/08\/sever-car-crash-at-walsall-civic-centre\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/images\/\/Screenshot-from-2013-11-08-181108-300x203.png\" alt=\"BrownhillsBob&#039;s blog about the latest excess of Walsall MBC. Click to visit the site.\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/images\/Screenshot-from-2013-11-08-181108-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/images\/Screenshot-from-2013-11-08-181108.png 974w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2421\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BrownhillsBob&#8217;s blog about the latest excess of Walsall MBC. Click to visit the site.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The story speaks for itself, except that if I&#8217;ve ID&#8217;d the car correctly from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dhintheman\/status\/398867744206385153\/photo\/1\">this photo<\/a>, then it&#8217;s a Jaguar XJ LWB Portfolio, starting at \u00a370,975. Even if I haven&#8217;t, the range starts at over \u00a350k.<br \/>\n[edit]<br \/>\nThe E&#038;S story quotes \u00a350k excluding VAT. Would Walsall MBC pay VAT on a car purchase, or are they exempt?<br \/>\n[\/edit]<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve submitted an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatdotheyknow.com\/request\/mayoral_car_costs\/new\">FOI request<\/a> to confirm this, plus some other stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Read Bob&#8217;s blog now. Read about the cuts to jobs and services in Walsall (Bob does that kind of thing better than I do), and get angry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hat-tip to BrownhillsBob: The story speaks for itself, except that if I&#8217;ve ID&#8217;d the car correctly from this photo, then it&#8217;s a Jaguar XJ LWB Portfolio, starting at \u00a370,975. Even if I haven&#8217;t, the range starts at over \u00a350k. [edit] The E&#038;S story quotes \u00a350k excluding VAT. Would Walsall MBC pay VAT on a car &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=2420\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fat Cat<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,20,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars-driving","category-politics","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}