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This is typical modern British democracy at work: undermine something by strangling its funding and investment, make it ineffective and unresponsive and then suggest to the electorate that they can do without it or that it should be privatised.
They did this with the Beeching cuts to railways in the 60’s and now they are doing it to local Government and the public sector in general – particularly where the Council’s are not Tory controlled as far as local Government is concerned.
I think today’s Westminster politicians have forgotten what politics is actually for.
I think the Beeching analogy a good one
There was massive deliberate misstatement and fund starvation then
And it is happening now
Its alarming that the effect of the cuts isn’t being more widely challenged, because what will be lost is;
libraries
parks
leisure centres
& arts centres
without which, we’ll continue to ‘exist’ but won’t, in any real sense, ‘live’.
Agreed
Funny how the Con-Dems, following in Thatcher’s footsteps, love to laud “old-fashioned Victorian values”, given that it was the Victorians who gave us most of pur libraries and parks, while Councils seeking to emulate Victorian civics mindedness gave us leisure and art centres. Truth to tell, their REAL legacy is one of philistine vandalism – in which they demonstrate their true descent from Thatcher, possibly the most philistine occupant of No. 10, bar none.
It is much worse than that. Councils will have to decide how to prune even core statutory services – Adult Social Care, refuse, highways, youth services etc etc. Even the National Audit Office and Office for Budget Responsibility are questioning whether Ministers have the faintest idea of the impact of their actions to date.
Oh yes, Osborne wants to do it all again, and then some.
Agreed
Since many ministers are already rich and are never likely to use such services, it is highly likely that Bill above is correct.