The next prime minister

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duke63 wrote:A council is totally reliant on Government funding for its income
Well they take me handsomely for council tax every month (wasntme)
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Blade wrote:I agree and would love a meaningful wage rise. In the last 10 years I havent had more than 1% increase in any one year and many years I've had NO increase at all. Fully agree we should at least have inflation to stay level.

Regards the NHS, 40 new hopsitals, massive cash injection and 6000 more GP's and 6000 nurses sounds good to me.
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Regards council spending. I'm equally furious about this,
but dont believe its national governments fault in every instance. My Council ward is Labour and always has been. They have nearly £180 million their sitting on, £40 million of which is cash so available to spend / invest with today. Please let me know why there are cuts in council services when this labour council is cash rich, I really want to know.
Because any entity that used up all its cash reserves now would struggle to survive more than a few years.

I worked with a charity in Brum for a number of years and that accusation was always aimed at them but without cash reserves or access to them and being able to fund them, no business is viable.
Thanks for explaining that Duke.

I do think 180 million seems an excessive safety net for a rainy day to be fair though.
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Blade wrote:
duke63 wrote:A council is totally reliant on Government funding for its income
Well they take me handsomely for council tax every month (wasntme)
That's for the councillors pension contributions.

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Council tax provides about half of local council spending.

Central Govt has reduced its funding of local services by 60% in the last ten years.
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I'm thankful to be in Tax Band B
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Obviously I haven't read all the posts as there were 70-80 of them because I haven't been online for a couple of weeks. But just want to say Thanks to StMarks and Duke for responding on Israel and Palestine as I hadn't got a clue about it all. I've always known it was a very volatile area but never knew the reasons why. Thanks for your explanations

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