Comment on Woking plans to cut funds for care, arts, sports and toilets to plug £1.2bn deficit
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Christ fucking hell. Yet more money at eye watering amounts wasted. What the fuck happened to sound money management? Have these loonies forgotten it? Did they never know of it?
lea@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Central government cuts to budgets, inflation, increased adult social care costs only able to raise council tax by a few percentage points as more wouldn’t pass a referendum?
It was basically government policy for them to be ‘enterprising’ to have any hopes of covering costs with them trying to get to the point of removing central govt subsidy wherever possible.
All it then takes is a couple of projects failing or a lawsuit (ala Birmingham) that lead to unexpected expenditure and they hit effective bankruptcy.