Comment on Broken Britain: what went wrong?
burningmatches@feddit.uk 9 months agoIn some ways they’re arguing that austerity wasn’t aggressive enough to get the job done properly.
Comment on Broken Britain: what went wrong?
burningmatches@feddit.uk 9 months agoIn some ways they’re arguing that austerity wasn’t aggressive enough to get the job done properly.
hellothere@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
There is definitely some memory holing going on, the bit implying capex cuts were used to fund increases in opex expenditure like pay rises is pure fantasy. Anyone who isn’t looking to be lied to knows that the current pay crisis in the public sector is due to a decade of pay cuts, not rises.
The reality of course being situations where councils had to maintain mandatory service provision, and their opex budgets had also been cut in to the bone, requiring further cuts to capex to allow a transfer of cash from one to the other.