well i think in common with most local authorities we've been playing a sort of cat and mouse game with central government over the last ten years, where we have attempted to continue to deliver the services that we believe we've been elected to deliver, and central government has been trying to close off what it would see as loopholes and gain control of us and stop us doing what it doesn't want us to do, but of course it's a rather unequal struggle and the cat and mouse analogy is quite a good one in that central government has all the power and is able to erm take control of us to the extent now that the budget that both the city and the county council have set for the coming year has effectively been set by central government.