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Some thoughts on this budget.

The Scottish Fiscal Commission’s latest forecasts (Jan 2026) confirm what councils have warned for years: local government is being cut again, despite rising demand for services.

#ScotBudget #LocalGovernment
#CouncilCuts

Operation Five Minutes Earlier: Britain’s Winter Strategy Is Just Getting Up Earlier, Apparently Opinion | Satire: Celia Walden does New York temperature tourism, the railways do their annual collapse, and the Met Office gets promoted to Secretary of State for Vibes.

Celia Walden does New York temperature tourism, the railways do their annual collapse, and the Met Office gets promoted to Secretary of State for Vibes.
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#Satire #UKPolitics #Infrastructure #Austerity #Transport #Rail #CouncilCuts #PublicServices #NHS

Under Reform-led councils, care homes are facing closure

- 8 in Derbyshire
- 10 in Lancashire

That’s pensioners dumped, families panicking, staff shafted.

#ReformUK #CareNotCuts #ProtectOurElderly #CouncilCuts #PoliticalFrauds

Bradford Council wants to save £60.6 million in the next financial year. Here’s how it plans on doing that. Link below ↓

#BradfordCouncil #BradfordBudget #CouncilCuts #£60MillionSavings #LocalGovFinance #CouncilTax #BCFT #BradfordSavings #LocalElections2026 #WestYorkshire #BradfordPolitics

Tower Hamlets care workers struggle as council cuts contract Dozens of home care staff left jobless after charity Apasen loses council work amid fraud claims

Tower Hamlets care workers struggle as council cuts contract

#TowerHamlets #CareWorkers #CouncilCuts #SocialCareCrisis #UKNews #LocalNews #CareSector #CommunityCare

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Why doesn't the PM give a toss that Birmingham City Council is bankrupt cutting arts funding by a %100. Fire sale of all assets and massive cuts to care, SEN, youth service, and libraries. Bin strike still not resolved. Keir Starmer can get in the sea! #Birmingham #football #AstonVilla #CouncilCuts

Good morning, #MidBucks! Local council is considering new budget cuts. What impact will this have on our community? Share your thoughts and concerns! #MidBucksBudget #CouncilCuts #CommunityImpact

Mayor defends cancelled meeting as concerns grow over how council overspend will be tackled - Bedford Independent Mayor defends decision to cancel executive meeting as questions mount over how Bedford Borough Council plans to reduce overspend...

Mayor defends cancelled Executive meeting amid rising concern about how Bedford Borough Council will cut £15m from its budget. Critics call the delay a dereliction of duty...

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Good morning, #MidBucks! Local council is considering new budget cuts. What impact will this have on our community? Share your thoughts and concerns! #MidBucksBudget #CouncilCuts #CommunityImpact

Good morning, #MidBucks! Local council is considering new budget cuts. What impact will this have on our community? Share your thoughts and concerns! #MidBucksBudget #CouncilCuts #CommunityImpact

Perry confronted outside Town Hall over Carers’ Centre closure CROYDON IN CRISIS: Senior council official tells meeting held in George Street that he and his staff ‘had no knowledge about the closure of the centre or new service provider’. PLUS: Pr…

Perry confronted outside Town Hall over Carers' Centre closure insidecroydon.com/2025/02/25/p... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #CouncilCuts @fisherandrew79.bsky.social

#Libraries #Booksky #Loans #Education #CouncilCuts #Budget #Communities #Reading #WritingCommunity

So councillors in Birmingham give themselves an above inflation increase in allowances.

This comes during the week we hear that over £148 million in cuts will be made to adult social care and children’s social care services.

#Birmingham #CouncilCuts

Birmingham’s cuts reveals the ugly truth about Britain in 2024: the state is abandoning its people | John Harris First it was austerity. Now it’s something even worse: the suggestion that people didn’t need vital local services to begin with, says Guardian columnist John Harris

“The House of Commons…select committee puts English councils’ current financial gap at about £4bn a year, which could have been filled more than twice over by the money Jeremy Hunt used for that almost meaningless cut in national insurance”

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