Quote ="bren2k"These savage cuts:
"Council spending on local services has fallen by more than a fifth since 2010, according to a report from Britain’s leading independent economics thinktank.
In a reflection of the austerity drive imposed on local authorities by Conservative-led governments during the past decade, the Institute for Fiscal Studies said spending on services in England had fallen by 21% between 2009-10 and 2017-18.
In a sign of the increasing difficulties facing local authorities across the country, the leading tax and spending thinktank also said the funds available to councils would become increasingly inadequate in the 2020s, rendering the current financing system for the country’s local authorities through council tax and business rates unsustainable."
Ah yes - the logical fallacy of anecdote: "I haven't seen it and it hasn't affected me, so it didn't happen." Meanwhile:
"Welfare changes such as universal credit and the bedroom tax are a key factor in the sharp increase in food bank use and the re-emergence of extreme poverty in the UK over the past seven years, an academic study has concluded.
According to the research, there is “clear and robust evidence” that people struggling on the lowest rungs of the income ladder are pushed rapidly into destitution when their already tight budgets are broken by benefit payment delays, cuts, deductions or sanctions.
The study found five key welfare policies – the rollout of universal credit, increases in benefit sanctions, the bedroom tax, the benefits freeze and the withdrawal of disability benefits – had “sizeable and significant effects” in pushing up demand for food parcels.
One in 50 UK households used a food bank in 2018-19, the study estimated, while at least 3m food parcels were given out – highlighting the rise in charity welfare and the impact of austerity cuts since the start of the decade, when only a small number of food banks existed."
Labour have made a catastrophic mess of this election campaign, that's clear, but please don't rewrite history for the sake of appearing to be wise after the event; it's ridiculous.'"
excellent post.
quality. I can see it now, Doris with scissors in hand cutting the ribbon to our brand spanking new stadium, funded entirely out of all extra money he will make from Brexit....
