The councils selling the family silver to pay bills

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1. Short term solution that will only delay the inevitable.

   Councils needs proper funding from central government coupled with better procurement staff and processes to allow them to make better use of resources.

2. I can never understand why councils can overspend. They literally know their income and costs. It’s not like a business with a R&D department that will yield more growth in the future. Why is spending less than you earn such a foreign concept?

3. By design of Tory central government.

   Asset strip the public sector to fatten up the private sector. Literally the reason Tories exist.

4. There’s a 12meter x 12meter playground by me just been installed. I see max £50,000 work, it cost the council £1.3million. a lot of council workers got paid to do fuck all. if you ask me, the entire system is fucked from top to bottom and it will never change. too many people on too much money for nothing in return. just like with everything else in this world today. Live today. Fuck 2moro.

5. Isn’t this the whole capitalistic right wing goal? Starve institutions of cash and they are forced to sell their assets to the private sector. i.e. the people that made the rules.

6. Why on earth does a council need a private number plate.

7. Councils, you’re wasting taxpayers money. We need you to stop spending money on silly things, be more efficient and focus on corse services – we’re cutting your budgets.

   Councils response is to change nothing about their operating and double down on the white elephant projects.

   I understand councils are being asked to do more with less money but the amount of waste and incompetence is staggering.

8. Selling the family silver isn’t a good analogy, as you never have to rent that silver back later.

   Selling the family car might better reflect the subsequent hit this will have on your revenue budget.

9. A lot of councils are in dire straits thanks to central government.

10. Thames, fucking, water! This country is under bad management.

11. Gotta cut the bills to balance the books. Tax rake in percentage terms of GDP is the highest since WW2 ffs.

12. Well yes, lack of government funding is forcing public assets to be solved off to the private sector, which is what people voted for and can’t complain about.

    All while the private sector use social care to vacuum up your council tax and business rates.