The focus on cutting things as if its just common sense is rather telling, when there's always plenty of money for tax cuts on the rich and these sweet-heart deals involving public funds for a whole lot of nothing, to lobbyists and their pals. That it is even taken as normal to make entire cities or town or villages poorer and worse to "balance a budget" is grotesque. This is all intentional; starve a system to justify privitisation. Cutting water and sewage?! So don't ever ask why funds are so low (as part of neoliberalism), but just go straight to "lets make our drinking water worse and pollute our rivers to bAlAnCe A bUdGeT!"
These councils will cut back on everything causing suffering. However one thing is sacrosanct......the huge compensations and pensions for senior council officials. You can be absolutely sure not a penny will be cut from those.
Yes, the Pensions cost a lot of money, but would you like to have no pension when you retire? The State Pension is abysmal and would not keep anyone alive. People need top-up pensions from employers + private ones to have any sort of life after retiring. I have the State Pension + 3 small others from various employers including a very small private one too. All in all I just only manage to make ends meet. I have no foreign holidays, drive an old car and live in a 1 bedroom flat. People need to understand the seriousness of their financial futures and plan for it! Having said that many top Council employees get too high a pension, they should be reduced to sensible levels seeing it is the taxpayer who is stumping all this money up!
Enfield Council was skint then found 10 million quid to waste on cycle lanes, knowing that your budget is going to be cut ,year in year out ,you don't go and spend 10 million quid on a cycle lanes
Top heavy,poor management, too much of our money to waste. One of the problems of promoting within an organisation They are not proficient enough due to lack of experience in business. My experiences with local government is "Its whats right on paper that matters" Not whats right in reality
Just the other week on the radio they were talking about one of the councils in the area where I live having to make cuts because over the last nine years its debt has increased from £30 million to £191 million. I was utterly gobsmacked. I think those who are served by this particular council deserve to know WHY this totally unacceptable situation has been allowed to arise.
Have a look at the gravy trains.Officials on " leave", or suspended ,on full pay, eventually leave,with huge payouts.Tgen,get a job at another council.Then there's the pensions,and the number of officers on huge salaries.Overall inefficiency,poor supervision ,generally no responsibility to taxpayers.
Dont you worry, British you will manage. Yet this situation reminds me of another story called Yugoslavia. When economic problems started cultural problems followed by a war. Enjoy your brexit:))😅
Someone in a one bedroom starter home in a rough area of my town is now in real terms paying the same council tax as the manor house in the village i grew up in just outside the town in the mid nineties.(£1850)
Imagine having a farm, you're in hard time's on the farm and need some help to maintain it You need a strong horse to pull the plough, you need sheep to cut the grass, and you need some food from the chicken's. Imagine having all these animals on the farm, but convincing yourself you can't use your animals to help solve your problem's because an insurance provider says you can't trust your animal's to undertake the tasks, that another farm is paying them to do. Imagine how simple it would be if you learned how best to communicate with your animals on the farm. Don't drink the tap water in your home! It could make you ill, go and buy a bottle from the shop, put fuel in the car to go and buy your water.
You can tell here that the understanding of what is going wrong is poor. The Conservatives Councillor stated that 70% of expenditure was adult social care and 70% of funding is now local taxation and that the government grant was reducing year-on-year. Note, the government caps (effectively) their ability to increase the council tax by insisting on a local referendum if they want to exceed the cap. Notice that national government does not restrict their own ability to raise taxes. This is a mess. Local government funding needs reforming and needs to be removed from the whims of national government, say via a local income tax. Council tax and business rates need reforming too; they are too arbitrary between similar councils, paid by too few people (homeowners only) and in the case of business rates, no longer fit for purpose. Having voted Conservative much of adult life (though not since 2011) it grieves me to say I really cannot imagine how any bunch of adults could run this country so poorly. There is very little that national government touches that is not withered or totally unfit for purpose. That we should on average be paying £2,000+ per annum for this abuse is shocking.
Shortage of money.??? Another £ 700 million for Ukraine yesterday....That's on top of the £ 3 Billion a year guaranteed for the next few years..!! FFS ! Wake-up people..!!
Why are councils struggling. ......the main issue is the utter waste of money and inept management most of email couldn't buy a clue and they don't give a toss because they can always put tax up that's the truth of the matter
Gold plated defined benefit pensions and salary sacrifice deals and other benefits long unaffordable in the private sector since Gordon Brown cost much tax payers money.
@@jayaitch2194 No but none have declared bankruptcy unlike the 6 in England have. So far Councils that have voted to accept the funded council tax freeze from ScotGov are SNP ran Glasgow City Council. Labour ran North Lanarkshire Council Labour ran South Lanarkshire Council. Torie ran Borders Council. Independent ran Western Isles Council. The Scottish Government generates more than 1.5 Billion a year. Last years revenue growth in Devolved Taxes was 2.3 Billion. Its a good thing that COSLA and the Government squabble.
@@ScottishRoss27 Sobthe stated £1.5billion is a myth? Come on! The SNP "government" are as incompetent as it's possible to be, fortunately we are still, thanks to those of us Scots who are also proud to be, British so aren't facing the Darian Scheme situation that led to the Union in thecfirst place.
@@jayaitch2194 Aye as are likely to generate more than that in revenue growth. They can't be that incompetent in Government as have been elected, re-elected and re-elected. Proud to be British? proud of this UK Ranks 21st in World for GDP Per Capita. World Happiness Report 2023 Country Rankings 19th United Kingdom The UK has fallen to its worst ever ranking on corruption. In Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index in 2023 The UK was ranked 20th out of 181 countries. UK Debt approaching £2.7 Trillion. £119 Billion in debt interest payments last year In Unicef Child Poverty Rankings 2023, The UK is ranked 37th out of 39 OECD Nations. Over 14 Million people the UK are living poverty. UK is ranked 17th out of 35 OECD countries for saving disposable income. 6,7 million crimes were recorded in England & Wales in the year ending September 2023. Armed Forces Personnel has shrunk 19,8 percent from 177,800 in April 2010 to 142,500 in April 2023. In December 2023, UK government scrapped its dedicated Disability Minister. Nearly 120,000 retail jobs lost across the UK in 2023. Weekly State Pension Amount Bulgaria £167.66 UK basic £156.20 = 6,83% lower
@@jayaitch2194 Aye as are likely to generate more than that in revenue growth. They can't be that incompetent in Government as have been elected, re-elected and re-elected. Proud to be British? proud of this World Happiness Report 2023 Country Rankings 19th United Kingdom In Unicef Child Poverty Rankings 2023, The UK is ranked 37th out of 39 OECD Nations. Over 14 Million people the UK are living poverty. UK is ranked 17th out of 35 OECD countries for saving disposable income. The UK has fallen to its worst ever ranking on corruption. In Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index in 2023 The UK was ranked 20th out of 181 countries. Armed Forces Personnel has shrunk 19,8 percent from 177,800 in April 2010 to 142,500 in April 2023. In December 2023, UK government scrapped its dedicated Disability Minister.
The focus on cutting things as if its just common sense is rather telling, when there's always plenty of money for tax cuts on the rich and these sweet-heart deals involving public funds for a whole lot of nothing, to lobbyists and their pals. That it is even taken as normal to make entire cities or town or villages poorer and worse to "balance a budget" is grotesque. This is all intentional; starve a system to justify privitisation. Cutting water and sewage?! So don't ever ask why funds are so low (as part of neoliberalism), but just go straight to "lets make our drinking water worse and pollute our rivers to bAlAnCe A bUdGeT!"
Water & sewage are privatised foreign shareholder owned in England.
@@ScottishRoss27 exactly. things are bad and getting worse because the rot has already set in, decades ago
Why is social care so expensive. Someone is making a killing.
Literally
Yet its the lowest paid job
@@hayleydoherty9557Yes its disgraceful
These councils will cut back on everything causing suffering. However one thing is sacrosanct......the huge compensations and pensions for senior council officials. You can be absolutely sure not a penny will be cut from those.
Expat 🏴 from Birmingham what a Toilet the UK 🇬🇧 has Become 😅😅😅😅😅
An "equal opportunities" employer who paid women less! = £1billion
@@stephenholmes1036 not only Dinner ladies
Immigrant! Let's not have one word for us and another for everybody else.
they take a big chunk of your council tax money for there private pensions get real and pass the word
Yes, the Pensions cost a lot of money, but would you like to have no pension when you retire? The State Pension is abysmal and would not keep anyone alive. People need top-up pensions from employers + private ones to have any sort of life after retiring. I have the State Pension + 3 small others from various employers including a very small private one too. All in all I just only manage to make ends meet. I have no foreign holidays, drive an old car and live in a 1 bedroom flat. People need to understand the seriousness of their financial futures and plan for it! Having said that many top Council employees get too high a pension, they should be reduced to sensible levels seeing it is the taxpayer who is stumping all this money up!
Enfield Council was skint then found 10 million quid to waste on cycle lanes, knowing that your budget is going to be cut ,year in year out ,you don't go and spend 10 million quid on a cycle lanes
Migrants in hotels: 6 million a day then HS2
Plus Ukraine ( £ 3 Billion ) !!
Top heavy,poor management, too much of our money to waste.
One of the problems of promoting within an organisation
They are not proficient enough due to lack of experience in business.
My experiences with local government is
"Its whats right on paper that matters"
Not whats right in reality
That's far too simplistic.
Yes your right far to simplistic,we just allow them free reign
Bingo! Their lack of experience in business is blatant.
Malfeasance
@@Matt-ou7tuOccam’s razor. Not Hanlon’s razor.
Just the other week on the radio they were talking about one of the councils in the area where I live having to make cuts because over the last nine years its debt has increased from £30 million to £191 million. I was utterly gobsmacked. I think those who are served by this particular council deserve to know WHY this totally unacceptable situation has been allowed to arise.
Birmingham didn't pay women equally £1billion,
Have a look at the gravy trains.Officials on " leave", or suspended ,on full pay, eventually leave,with huge payouts.Tgen,get a job at another council.Then there's the pensions,and the number of officers on huge salaries.Overall inefficiency,poor supervision ,generally no responsibility to taxpayers.
Too many mouths to feed, less people bringing something for the table
Too many idiotic mouths to feed.
They should sell their assets.
Dont you worry, British you will manage.
Yet this situation reminds me of another story called Yugoslavia.
When economic problems started cultural problems followed by a war.
Enjoy your brexit:))😅
Someone in a one bedroom starter home in a rough area of my town is now in real terms paying the same council tax as the manor house in the village i grew up in just outside the town in the mid nineties.(£1850)
probably because they spend half their money on social care.
And speeding
Imagine having a farm, you're in hard time's on the farm and need some help to maintain it
You need a strong horse to pull the plough, you need sheep to cut the grass, and you need some food from the chicken's.
Imagine having all these animals on the farm, but convincing yourself you can't use your animals to help solve your problem's because an insurance provider says you can't trust your animal's to undertake the tasks, that another farm is paying them to do.
Imagine how simple it would be if you learned how best to communicate with your animals on the farm.
Don't drink the tap water in your home! It could make you ill, go and buy a bottle from the shop, put fuel in the car to go and buy your water.
The ruleing class are reneging on their responsibility
We give them privilege, power , and a high income
They look after the country. Not amy more.
The uk should get regional proportional parliments
The councils have to much power and FPTP is crap
Cut in services, oh no. How will I manage without my diversity manager.
You can tell here that the understanding of what is going wrong is poor.
The Conservatives Councillor stated that 70% of expenditure was adult social care and 70% of funding is now local taxation and that the government grant was reducing year-on-year.
Note, the government caps (effectively) their ability to increase the council tax by insisting on a local referendum if they want to exceed the cap.
Notice that national government does not restrict their own ability to raise taxes.
This is a mess. Local government funding needs reforming and needs to be removed from the whims of national government, say via a local income tax.
Council tax and business rates need reforming too; they are too arbitrary between similar councils, paid by too few people (homeowners only) and in the case of business rates, no longer fit for purpose.
Having voted Conservative much of adult life (though not since 2011) it grieves me to say I really cannot imagine how any bunch of adults could run this country so poorly.
There is very little that national government touches that is not withered or totally unfit for purpose.
That we should on average be paying £2,000+ per annum for this abuse is shocking.
Bankruptcy but still have to find millions for houses for illegal imagrants
Cause they ran out due to budget cuts, mismanagement of funds or lack of revenue or combination of these. Gave you back 7:20
This is what happens when you dont have fiscal conservatism
It's fiscal conservatism that CAUSED THIS.
Please come To Vietnam ❤ living costs are very low here, foreigners are always welcome for long term living❤
Shortage of money.??? Another £ 700 million for Ukraine yesterday....That's on
top of the £ 3 Billion a year guaranteed for the next few years..!!
FFS ! Wake-up people..!!
Its called tory underfunding
He likes to use 70 % lol
Reform
Tony Blair dropped auditors
what about wales?
When you allow 1.2 millions imigrants into your county every 2 year what do you expect.
Bullshit
Why are councils struggling. ......the main issue is the utter waste of money and inept management most of email couldn't buy a clue and they don't give a toss because they can always put tax up that's the truth of the matter
Tax the richest of the rich!
moto manai
ALL CASH GOES TO COUNCILORS/ Gov...then they break open the safes and take the money and run !!!
On average, councillors in England receive around £7,000 a year - ranging from £3,000 to £16,000 depending on the council.
Gold plated defined benefit pensions and salary sacrifice deals and other benefits long unaffordable in the private sector since Gordon Brown cost much tax payers money.
All give fat hug to china 🇨🇳 🤗
*English councils
And the Scottish ones are all rolling in cash?? SNP government have a 1.5 billion blackhole and there's currently squabbling between them and COSLA.
@@jayaitch2194
No but none have declared bankruptcy unlike the 6 in England have.
So far Councils that have voted to accept the funded council tax freeze from ScotGov are
SNP ran Glasgow City Council.
Labour ran North Lanarkshire Council
Labour ran South Lanarkshire Council.
Torie ran Borders Council.
Independent ran Western Isles Council.
The Scottish Government generates more than 1.5 Billion a year.
Last years revenue growth in Devolved Taxes was 2.3 Billion.
Its a good thing that COSLA and the Government squabble.
@@ScottishRoss27 Sobthe stated £1.5billion is a myth? Come on! The SNP "government" are as incompetent as it's possible to be, fortunately we are still, thanks to those of us Scots who are also proud to be, British so aren't facing the Darian Scheme situation that led to the Union in thecfirst place.
@@jayaitch2194
Aye as are likely to generate more than that in revenue growth.
They can't be that incompetent in Government as have been elected, re-elected and re-elected.
Proud to be British? proud of this
UK Ranks 21st in World for GDP Per Capita.
World Happiness Report 2023 Country Rankings
19th United Kingdom
The UK has fallen to its worst ever ranking on corruption.
In Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index in 2023
The UK was ranked 20th out of 181 countries.
UK Debt approaching £2.7 Trillion.
£119 Billion in debt interest payments last year
In Unicef Child Poverty Rankings 2023, The UK is ranked 37th out of 39 OECD Nations.
Over 14 Million people the UK are living poverty.
UK is ranked 17th out of 35 OECD countries for saving disposable income.
6,7 million crimes were recorded in England & Wales in the year ending September 2023.
Armed Forces Personnel has shrunk 19,8 percent from 177,800 in April 2010 to 142,500 in April 2023.
In December 2023, UK government scrapped its dedicated Disability Minister.
Nearly 120,000 retail jobs lost across the UK in 2023.
Weekly State Pension Amount
Bulgaria £167.66
UK basic £156.20 = 6,83% lower
@@jayaitch2194
Aye as are likely to generate more than that in revenue growth.
They can't be that incompetent in Government as have been elected, re-elected and re-elected.
Proud to be British? proud of this
World Happiness Report 2023 Country Rankings
19th United Kingdom
In Unicef Child Poverty Rankings 2023, The UK is ranked 37th out of 39 OECD Nations.
Over 14 Million people the UK are living poverty.
UK is ranked 17th out of 35 OECD countries for saving disposable income.
The UK has fallen to its worst ever ranking on corruption.
In Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index in 2023
The UK was ranked 20th out of 181 countries.
Armed Forces Personnel has shrunk 19,8 percent from 177,800 in April 2010 to 142,500 in April 2023.
In December 2023, UK government scrapped its dedicated Disability Minister.