Where do I begin (cue song)? After months of painful revelations, an embarrassing ‘internal’ inquiry and an expensive investigation, heads are starting to roll at what must surely have been one of the most arrogant, inept regimes since the Derek Hatton era.

Full credit to new CEC leader Michael Jones for grasping the nettle over Lyme Green and taking decisive action – an alien concept up until now.

From its inception, Cheshire East was delusional. The inaugural leader claimed to be ‘aiming for the stars’ then recruited a £230K chief executive with questionable communication skills.

Competent cabinet members were hastily fired and replaced with nodding dogs while startled residents looked on in total bemusement. At its peak Cheshire East employed 11 officers earning more than £90,000 each and paid total compensation packages totalling £2.5m for senior employees.

Interim chief executive Kim Ryley says he intends to reduce the number of management posts by 25 per cent. Let us pray that he does. I am however curious about the need for ‘secrecy’ in the Lyme Green report’s full findings.

Considering this investigation was paid for by taxpayers it seems churlish to deny access and elicits the obvious question: what don’t they want us to know?

With his decisive response, Coun Jones has began the long process of restoring credibility to his damaged council. Why not clean the house and publish the full report?

Let us know all the facts and be done with it and while we are about it, ditch the incomprehensible management speak (as follows).

“The new structure will separate those whose job it is to design and purchase services for local people from those who are responsible for delivering services to them. It will bring together related functions and types of expertise to provide a more seamless, joined-up approach to our wide range of activities.

"This will also have the benefit of making it easier for our local partners in the Ppolice, health, and fire and rescue services – as well as for the public – to do business with us in the future.”

Statements like this don’t make sense to anyone outside the council (and probably not too many within). Any retailer communicating to customers in this manner would be laughed off the High Street.

Now, all we need is full disclosure of any severance packages doled out and we can start again.

Talk to us straight, credit us with some intelligence (don’t switch off street lights and tell us driving around in the dark is safer like we’re all village idiots) and maybe – just maybe – we can get to a happier place.