The government should shed its Brexit paralysis and stem the escalating crisis. Reform of council funding must arrive quicklyThe wonder is that it’s taken so long for councils to tumble over the cliff. This is their eighth year of brutal cuts,while the cost of caring for frail elderly people and needy children sky-rockets.
The Daily Mail’s front page on Thursday blasts absent at councils for a “thumping rise in council tax” of 6%, with nine out of 10 councils set to burst their budgets. They quote the TaxPayers’ Alliance calling for councils to “step up a war on wasteful spending. The real war has been central versus local government.
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Source: guardian.co.uk