RevolutionSound
Well-Known Member
There's nothing left to cut in Birmingham. We're struggling as it is. This will be devastating.
Council “bankruptcy”?
- Thread starter danny la rouge
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equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
Yeah I feel that way about Glasgow RevolutionSound , not helped by hearing the council is now going to spend over £30m on massive repairs to a much beloved local museum on the East side of the city. Had they looked after it properly in the first, like Kelvingrove on the West side, then these repairs might not have been so expensive.
I think the People's Museum should be repaired, I just don't why it's going to be so expensive and why they let it get so rundown.
Interested in your thoughts danny la rouge
I think the People's Museum should be repaired, I just don't why it's going to be so expensive and why they let it get so rundown.
Interested in your thoughts danny la rouge
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danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
It wouldn’t have been this expensive if they’d acted sooner. Especially when you see how much Glasgow Life spent on the Burrell Collection, which actually didn’t need it. I love the Burrell too and have visited since it reopened and I really can’t see what they did that was worth it.
The obvious disparity strikes me as yet another instance of devaluing working class culture and fetishising middle class culture.
The funding for repair of the People’s Palace and Winter Gardens is not even close to being identified yet. So far only £7 million has been found from a Lottery grant (if I recall correctly). I’ve got friends involved in Friends of the People’s Palace. I’ll need to ask them how it’s going.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Just checked the website and I got that a bit wrong. The £7.5million hasn’t actually been awarded yet.
www.friendsofppwggg.org.uk
Update on People’s Palace & Winter Gardens
In August we supported plans developed by Glasgow Life, the arms-length organisation running culture and leisure, brought before Glasgow City Council’s Administrative Committee to “restore, reimagine and enhance”” the People Palace and the Winter Gardens. The cost of this proposal is £35.9...
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likesfish
You can't park here sir
Brighton i360 - Wikipedia well Brighton council want more parking tickets to cover this so if 1 1/2 million londoners could come and park badly this summer( like you do already 
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we will be golden
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still cheaper than ncp and we don't tow or clamp.
)we will be golden
.still cheaper than ncp and we don't tow or clamp.
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
Yes, I seem to recall from the BBC news article that the full funding amount is not yet available, which made me think that repair figure is going to escalate if funding isn't identified soon. The disparity also made me think the divide between the working class and the middle class is widening in the city, which makes me angry and sad.
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
RBWM has been close to a section 114 notice a few times, services here have been cut to the bone.
Most of this has been due to Tory mismanagment of the council finances and the decision to keep the council tax artificially low. Maidenhead and Windsor, which also includes Ascot, Bray and Cookham, is an affluent area. The only reason Council Tax was kept low (the lowest in the country outside London I think) was to placate the Tories.
If that hadn't happened and council tax was at a reasonable rate the council would have millions more available for services. Sickening Tory behaviour yet again.
Most of this has been due to Tory mismanagment of the council finances and the decision to keep the council tax artificially low. Maidenhead and Windsor, which also includes Ascot, Bray and Cookham, is an affluent area. The only reason Council Tax was kept low (the lowest in the country outside London I think) was to placate the Tories.
If that hadn't happened and council tax was at a reasonable rate the council would have millions more available for services. Sickening Tory behaviour yet again.
Saints Alive
Well-Known Member
On top of that, council tax is going to increase by 10% this year and then a FURTHER 10% next year to pay for it. 20% in two years! I suspect that will be a lot of people that will suddenly be defaulting on their council tax.
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
seems like every LA in the country is up against it with quite a few more close to bankruptcy. Bradford is in trouble apparently (got this from someone high up in social care management in the city).
Over a decade of austrerity is really starting to break services all over.
Over a decade of austrerity is really starting to break services all over.
likesfish
You can't park here sir
the majority of stuff council's are responsible for should just be paid out of central taxation anyway and council tax hits the poor the worst and is harder to collect off the poorest.
the outer ring of hell called "KENT" gets to deal with assylum seekers especially unaccompanied minors which should really be a central government task
the outer ring of hell called "KENT" gets to deal with assylum seekers especially unaccompanied minors which should really be a central government task
InArduisFouette
Well-Known Member
again a planned problem of the Selfservative regime
Jeremiah18.17
Well-Known Member
The Local Govt Info Unit recently published a report that said up to a quarter (!) of local authorities could face serious difficulties leading to possible section 114 notices over the next year or so.
Under the current government, in most of the country you can’t get a Doctor’s appt for weeks, Hospital waiting lists stretch away into the future for even serious or urgent cases, the roads are virtually unusable without blebbing your tyres, schools are stretched to breaking without mentioning their dangerous roofs, the homeless and mentally ill fill our Town centres; closed shops rot on high streets - terminated by the cost of living crisis and desperate councils squeezing them.
The only booming areas are food banks (though job centres stopping referring to them via some bureaucratic data protection excuse), tyre fitters and increasingly, undertakers as life expectancy falls…
Meanwhile the ruling party and their mates enjoy their ill-gotten gains from years and years of corruption, lying, grifting and backhanders.
To quote Lou Reed lyrics (himself quoting) “Stick a fork in its’ ass and turn it over” - Tory/Neoliberal Britain is done…
Under the current government, in most of the country you can’t get a Doctor’s appt for weeks, Hospital waiting lists stretch away into the future for even serious or urgent cases, the roads are virtually unusable without blebbing your tyres, schools are stretched to breaking without mentioning their dangerous roofs, the homeless and mentally ill fill our Town centres; closed shops rot on high streets - terminated by the cost of living crisis and desperate councils squeezing them.
The only booming areas are food banks (though job centres stopping referring to them via some bureaucratic data protection excuse), tyre fitters and increasingly, undertakers as life expectancy falls…
Meanwhile the ruling party and their mates enjoy their ill-gotten gains from years and years of corruption, lying, grifting and backhanders.
To quote Lou Reed lyrics (himself quoting) “Stick a fork in its’ ass and turn it over” - Tory/Neoliberal Britain is done…
baldrick
hmmmmm
It's terrifying what is happening in Birmingham.
I used to work for the council and I saw the writing on the wall then when they stopped directly funding Sure Start due to government cuts - I used to work in the central team. That was 2010/11 ish, I left in 2012 when the first round of redundancies happened, helpfully preventing any of my colleagues having to go through the process.
Since then there's been some bizarre spending on big projects, and the start of some issues coming to the fore e.g. equal pay claims, restructuring of the waste service and home care that should have been resolved years before, but then became protracted union disputes costing £££ plus continued cuts in funding.
Honestly I don't see what else there is to cut. The service levels at the council are appalling, everyone I know who still works there is stressed trying to do ten people's jobs. I don't know how they can continue to run statutory services with no money. The raise in council tax won't go anywhere near the amount of money they need for a decent service. It's just plugging gaps after a decade of underfunding.
I used to work for the council and I saw the writing on the wall then when they stopped directly funding Sure Start due to government cuts - I used to work in the central team. That was 2010/11 ish, I left in 2012 when the first round of redundancies happened, helpfully preventing any of my colleagues having to go through the process.
Since then there's been some bizarre spending on big projects, and the start of some issues coming to the fore e.g. equal pay claims, restructuring of the waste service and home care that should have been resolved years before, but then became protracted union disputes costing £££ plus continued cuts in funding.
Honestly I don't see what else there is to cut. The service levels at the council are appalling, everyone I know who still works there is stressed trying to do ten people's jobs. I don't know how they can continue to run statutory services with no money. The raise in council tax won't go anywhere near the amount of money they need for a decent service. It's just plugging gaps after a decade of underfunding.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
This is all going to plan for the vermin, isn't it? Austerity cuts that can be blamed on opposition led authorities with many voters without the time or information to think through the structural causes. Their desired 'by-products' including lowering expectation of any socialised services free at the point of delivery, driving more people to private provision with a general shrinking of the local state. All quite deliberate consolidator state behaviour and things will be little different under Starmer.
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
Utterly (and predictably) abysmal from Cotton and co.
He doesn’t mention the £Billions wasted by Labour on the Commonwealth games, the new library, scores of property developer led projects like ‘Paradise’ or shitty outsourced IT projects that have cost a fortune but mean BCC can’t even collect the Council Tax.
Also missing is culpability for the expensive and never ending obsession with the centre of town at the expense of outer districts where poverty and decline is off the scale.
Finally, Cotton says nothing about the councils war against its own staff - refuse collectors, social care workers and women workers - or the fact that every penny of cuts demanded by the Tories have been dutifully imposed on us by these pitiful cunts.
Calling on the Tories to conduct an inquiry into the failings of the Labour Party sums them up. Not serious, not up to it, not on the side of citizens and not worthy of support.
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