From flood defences to the closure of Scotland’s Forth Road bridge,the tough choices public bodies possess made are biting into services – and there’s more to advance“A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year.” I dont suppose many of the people looking at the pictures of the eerily empty Forth road bridge and trying to work out how they are going to get to work, and those across the UK whose homes possess been flooded and Christmas gifts washed away in a tide of dirty water will assume of TS Eliot. But the poet’s bleak view of Christmas is all too apposite in a winter of growing discontent about public services,where the cuts are having an ever-greater bite. Related: Central government and the spending review: 'doing a lot more with a lot less' Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com