Glasgow cannot stomach any more cuts to council services, says patersonHT
Councils have been told to expect to see their budgets cut even further in the future.
For years the Scottish Government has cut the money for local authorities while using numbers on spreadsheets and smoke and mirrors to claim it has actually made more available.If statistical gymnastics was a sport, we’d have world-class competitors. Then again, they’d probably cut their own grassroots funding.
Environmental services include cleansing which we all rely on as we saw, and smelled, and what happens when it’s not there during a strike last year.READ NEXT:These services are valued by the people who need them, who without them life would be so much worse and, in some cases, impossible. The council has to allocate what it gets and is hamstrung by ring-fenced funding to be spent on priorities decided by the Scottish Government with limited powers to raise its own cash.
We could expect, because they keep telling us they are, that Scottish Government ministers are more in touch with people and communities than ministers at Westminster are.
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