How do we resolve the Brexit mess?

SkyBlueFlux said:
I remember back in 2010 when they got in, one of the first times I remember being directly impacted by their policy, they cut funding from a local cafe/art gallery that was run by students as a means to help them sell their artwork.

Not only was it a way for young budding artists to get their work put somewhere where people would see it but it was also a central hub of the student art community. Such was its pull that people like me (STEM students) went there too to engage in the art scene and have discussions with people who had a totally different perspective on life. I loved it because I always imagined this was the kind of place where you hear stories of intellectuals and great minds meeting to do great things (I wouldn’t be one of them, but it was cool to think I might be in the same room). For me the value add for local artists, the community and society at large was so obvious - and it really can’t have cost much to run, it was basically two rooms and a coffee machine.

When it closed down I knew we would never be allowed to have nice things again while this lot were in charge. And 13 years later I can say I was wrong. It’s not that we can’t have nice things, we can’t even have basic, life sustaining things.
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Swimming pool, closed- check
Local tip forecast to close forcing 10 mile journey (and +++ fly tipping) - check
Library hours reduced - check
Payment for garden waste imminent - check
Gritting of known dangerous roads in winter stopped - check
End of road gulley cleaning service - check
Planning permission granted to build on peat bog - check
Local Social Services budgets slashed - check
Sale of playing fields, open spaces etc - check

etc

CNN Analysis Council Budgets 22-24 reports county authorities in England faced with £3.5b in inflationary and demand costs 22 and 23.

Forecasted funding gap by 2025 is £7.8b

Not sure about last 2 full years but by 2020 local authorities will have wrestled with a reduction to core funding from the government of nearly £16b. In real terms councils will have lost 60p in every £1 the gvmt had provided in 8 years back in 2012.

Wonder how Westminster fared? Levelling up and looking after citizens my arse.

Anybody care to post how they or their local community has benefited from this government?
 
BeerIsTheBest said:
Swimming pool, closed- check
Local tip forecast to close forcing 10 mile journey (and +++ fly tipping) - check
Library hours reduced - check
Payment for garden waste imminent - check
Gritting of known dangerous roads in winter stopped - check
End of road gulley cleaning service - check
Planning permission granted to build on peat bog - check
Local Social Services budgets slashed - check
Sale of playing fields, open spaces etc - check

etc

CNN Analysis Council Budgets 22-24 reports county authorities in England faced with £3.5b in inflationary and demand costs 22 and 23.

Forecasted funding gap by 2025 is £7.8b

Not sure about last 2 full years but by 2020 local authorities will have wrestled with a reduction to core funding from the government of nearly £16b. In real terms councils will have lost 60p in every £1 the gvmt had provided in 8 years back in 2012.

Wonder how Westminster fared? Levelling up and looking after citizens my arse.

Anybody care to post how they or their local community has benefited from this government?
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Just a gentle reminder that the Tories have committed to a barge to house immigrants costing £1.6 billion .... which would actually solve the social care crisis ... but hey lets keep voting them in power eh ?
 
BeerIsTheBest said:
Swimming pool, closed- check
Local tip forecast to close forcing 10 mile journey (and +++ fly tipping) - check
Library hours reduced - check
Payment for garden waste imminent - check
Gritting of known dangerous roads in winter stopped - check
End of road gulley cleaning service - check
Planning permission granted to build on peat bog - check
Local Social Services budgets slashed - check
Sale of playing fields, open spaces etc - check

etc

CNN Analysis Council Budgets 22-24 reports county authorities in England faced with £3.5b in inflationary and demand costs 22 and 23.

Forecasted funding gap by 2025 is £7.8b

Not sure about last 2 full years but by 2020 local authorities will have wrestled with a reduction to core funding from the government of nearly £16b. In real terms councils will have lost 60p in every £1 the gvmt had provided in 8 years back in 2012.

Wonder how Westminster fared? Levelling up and looking after citizens my arse.

Anybody care to post how they or their local community has benefited from this government?
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Scary when you look in detail at what’s been cut. Then you realise that our borrowing has continued to rise and try to figure out where all the money has actually gone?

Further, what else you realise is that this government have managed to subsidise big business on every count. Trains are subsidised while making huge profits. All businesses are subsidised by way of Universal Credit to cover shite wages and we‘re basically subsidising private health by way of the NHS; energy. Everywhere you look, they’ve managed to syphon off money to the private sector, leaving them to make extortionate profits while leaving millions of people on their arse and have to choose between things they shouldn’t need to.

Is this what ‘they’ really meant by Brexit benefits? No wonder they’re not in a rush to sort the problem.
 
BeerIsTheBest said:
Swimming pool, closed- check
Local tip forecast to close forcing 10 mile journey (and +++ fly tipping) - check
Library hours reduced - check
Payment for garden waste imminent - check
Gritting of known dangerous roads in winter stopped - check
End of road gulley cleaning service - check
Planning permission granted to build on peat bog - check
Local Social Services budgets slashed - check
Sale of playing fields, open spaces etc - check

etc

CNN Analysis Council Budgets 22-24 reports county authorities in England faced with £3.5b in inflationary and demand costs 22 and 23.

Forecasted funding gap by 2025 is £7.8b

Not sure about last 2 full years but by 2020 local authorities will have wrestled with a reduction to core funding from the government of nearly £16b. In real terms councils will have lost 60p in every £1 the gvmt had provided in 8 years back in 2012.

Wonder how Westminster fared? Levelling up and looking after citizens my arse.

Anybody care to post how they or their local community has benefited from this government?
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Sounds like Cheshire East!
 
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