‘She said the council was in a “very serious financial situation” when it came in, saddled with hundreds of millions of pounds in debt. She added that the latest budget aimed to “stabilise” the local authority’s finances.’
The alternative version of that is:
We couldn’t be fucked checking the council budget before the election despite it being public information and just promised a bunch of bollocks.
FlaviousTiberius on
More taxes (for the plebs), less services
Can’t wait for this on a national level. At least the HENRYs will get their tax cuts though.
FelisCantabrigiensis on
Well, well. A bunch of bullshitting amateurs with no plan turn out to be bullshitters with no plan.
Istoilleambreakdowns on
Culture war bullshit gets mogged by material conditions in shockingly predictable outcome.
EntirelyRandom1590 on
You claim you want to make cuts, but you can’t fight the inflationary pressures on social care, education and infrastructure. None of that is getting cheaper unless you want the most vulnerable in society to suffer the cuts.
HotelPuzzleheaded654 on
The people working in local government and a lot of councillors are just wanting to do the best by their local authority, this idea that they’re a slush fund and everyone’s on the take was and remains cynical nonsense.
People hear things like “gold plated pensions” and make a judgement on an organisation they don’t understand in the slightest.
And Reform are all too happy to pander to that cynicism when it’s their kind of politics that creates it.
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‘She said the council was in a “very serious financial situation” when it came in, saddled with hundreds of millions of pounds in debt. She added that the latest budget aimed to “stabilise” the local authority’s finances.’
The alternative version of that is:
We couldn’t be fucked checking the council budget before the election despite it being public information and just promised a bunch of bollocks.
More taxes (for the plebs), less services
Can’t wait for this on a national level. At least the HENRYs will get their tax cuts though.
Well, well. A bunch of bullshitting amateurs with no plan turn out to be bullshitters with no plan.
Culture war bullshit gets mogged by material conditions in shockingly predictable outcome.
You claim you want to make cuts, but you can’t fight the inflationary pressures on social care, education and infrastructure. None of that is getting cheaper unless you want the most vulnerable in society to suffer the cuts.
The people working in local government and a lot of councillors are just wanting to do the best by their local authority, this idea that they’re a slush fund and everyone’s on the take was and remains cynical nonsense.
People hear things like “gold plated pensions” and make a judgement on an organisation they don’t understand in the slightest.
And Reform are all too happy to pander to that cynicism when it’s their kind of politics that creates it.