Labour council to raise council tax by 21%...

In reality red

BIRMINGHAM

The government has also granted the council permission to increase the main local services tax by 10 percent this year and again next year.



Council funding is being cut by £11.3 billion


The rich have had their taxes cut by £9 billion
At the same time as cutting much-needed council funding the government has chosen to give tax cuts worth £4bn a year to top-rate taxpayers and £5bn a year to large company shareholders.


The fall in spending power is largely because of reductions in central government grants. These grants were cut by 40% in real terms between 2009/10 and 2019/20, from £46.5bn to £28.0bn (2023/24 prices).

More than 500,000 council workers have lost their jobs since 2010.
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And tomorrow Budget hunt to cut NI Contribution by 2p in the pound

And introduce more public Spending Cuts.

No Austerity measures my bum bum.

Remember Kiddies never put A tory Govenment In power again.

This Government aren't really Conservative 😂😂😶

Birmingham is not the only Council in financial difficulties, however Labour Councils have a long history of overspending, my Council Tax has gone up again as Mayor Khan wants more money

Drop in the ocean

Let's look at where so Many of them go Bankrupt especially labour controlled ones.

With local authorities controlling many Social care provisions .

It put them under more pressure then they already are because of Tory underfunding .
This report was in 2002 and I'm sure it worse Now.


New analysis, seen by the Guardian, has revealed that Labour councils have borne the brunt of local government cuts over a decade of austerity.

The findings highlight the extent to which poorer, largely Labour-held areas of England have had their funding slashed, on average, by at least a third, while more affluent, largely Conservative areas received greater protection.

The analysis, carried out with Sigoma, arrives exactly a decade since the then Chancellor George Osborne pledged to protect the most vulnerable in society whilst announcing the deepest period of cuts to public service spending since the second world war.

Sigoma shows that, on average, Labour councils saw their spending power reduced by 34 per cent, while the average Conservative council suffered an equivalent decline of 24 per cent. Of the 50 councils which received the deepest budget cuts, 28 were Labour controlled in 2010, while just six were Conservative. The remainder were Liberal Democrat controlled (two) or had no overall control (14).

By the end of the decade, the disparity had widened, with 38 of the 50 worst-hit councils being Labour-controlled while only five were Conservative authorities.



Labour council leaders from the worst-hit areas have told the Guardian that the cuts were so politically skewed as to feel like electoral manipulation.

Urban areas tended to see deeper cuts than rural areas. Inner London boroughs and metropolitan areas outside of the capital both received budgets cut of more than a third, while district and county councils in rural areas lost 22 per cent of their budgets.9

If local councils can afford to pay £125k salaries, they have zero right to increase council tax......So do all the actual responders on scene like fire and police rescue get big payouts for their ptsd? oh no, only the office workers who discussed it later. .

Council officer who got PTSD from helping Grenfell fire victims before she was sacked from her £125,000-a-year role wins £4.6 MILLION in record payout: 52-year-old says six-year legal battle destroyed her life, family and health......

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13205581/Sacked-council-officer-PTSD-helping-Grenfell-fire-victims-wins-4-6-MILLION.html

Tell me how new labour are in anyway Conceritives.

And I be interested in what you See has a Alternative to the 3 Main parties .

Most of f local authority funding in bankrupt England come from the government. And one by one local authorities all over England mostly Tory fascist controlled are becoming bankrupt.  Never mind if you hang on a couple of months you can blame Starmer, Muslims and the SNP. .  England having taken back control, you cannot now blame Johnny foreigner for all the ails of bankrupt England. Nearly one in five council leaders in England now say they are likely to declare bankruptcy in the next 15 months. The latest places to sound warnings about financial collapse include Stoke-on-Trent, Middlesbrough, Somerset, Bradford and Cheshire East. The recently announced 6.5% increase in funds the government gives to councils will barely touch the sides. In both deprived and affluent parts of the country, the millions being cut from local services echo the fiscal savagery of George Osborne’s austerity. This time, however, there is a crucial difference. After long years of endless savings, cuts now automatically entail no end of cruelties.  

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/14/englands-councils-bankrupt-westminster

'Bankrupt England' 'Tory fascists' lol, how predictably tedious, welcome back JD.

I suppose it could be a coincidence but have you noticed that the vast majority of local authorities that have gone bust or are about to go bust are socialist Labour controlled authorities.