Cobblers. The LP itself in the past has at times decided to challenge those rules.
As
Smokeandsteam outlined you don't just refuse to implement cuts you use the refusal to mount a political challenge to th idea of cuts. No one is proposing the Labour councillors not implementing cuts simply as a end but as part of a political response, one that is rooted in communities.
FFS the idea that this is revolutionary is not just silly it is totally ahistoric - Popular was/is once one of the folk victories of the LP that so many members do not seem to recognise that is pathetic.
Of course there is money, that fact that you are talking the line that there "really [is] no money" is part of the problem. And no it is not a Tory decision it is a decision being made by the councillors you are proposing people vote for, that you are supporting.
When Labour councillors implement cuts they are attacking labour, and when you (as a LP member) support those councillors you are giving support to attacks on labour. Now if you want to argue that such actions are a necessary evil go ahead. It is the nature of capitalism that we are all going to have to make hard choices sometimes but FFS don't hide your head in the sand and pretend that you are not choosing to make a political action.
Have the moral and intellectual honesty to recognise the part that you and your party is playing. Otherwise you are absolving everyone from any political action they take ever - I've no choice but to scab, there's no choice but for me to make 200 people redundant, there's no choice for us but to attack strikers.
