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for context, tthe actual reason Birmingham Council is fucked is the same reason that nearly every council in Britain is fucked: the deliberate policy choice by
by bananapub 3y ago
for context, tthe actual reason Birmingham Council is fucked is the same reason that nearly every council in Britain is fucked: the deliberate policy choice by central (what every other country calls "federal") government to de-fund councils and cause them to slash things for 14 years and now start collapsing.
funding from central government is now at 40% below 2010 levels: https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainer/local-government-funding-england https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainer/local-go...
- Symbiote 3y agoOnly the small number of countries that are a federation of states/provinces call their highest level of government "federal". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation
- brigandish 3y agoLike all levels of government, they spend too much on things they don't need to, inevitably. Blaming too little or too much money when these organisation have many millions and sometimes billions available (certainly in the long term) is to miss the point entirely. They waste what they have through poor implementation. That's the story here.
- bananapub 3y agothis is an extremely dumb take, kudos.