The chancellor’s draw is meant to win votes from Labour – but it’s fomenting opposition in his own party’s ranksBlock your ears to the chancellor’s rhetoric. We are the builders,” George Osborne says to the Tory faithful in Manchester. “We are the party of working people.” Disregard his “proud account of Conservative social justice”. Instead, as his purported “devolution revolution” is all about local councils, and let’s dig a little deeper into the local “common ground” to see what he really has in store.
Councils are in the frontline of the often unseen cuts he passes down,devolving the axe not the cash. No need to seek some tough-pressed spot, just look at leafy, or luxuriant Surrey.
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Source: theguardian.com