Where’s the guy that claimed the tories weren’t corrupt yesterday?
Why is the department of levelling up the one responding to this issue? Has the southeast really had an historical issue with lack of investment?
These tories, genuinely make me feel a mix of disbelief and real visceral sadness, I feel like I should love my country, but I look around at the state of things and I feel so sad, my kids will grow up in this. It shouldn’t be like this, why have we as a public allowed this infection, this cancer to so throughly blight our politics?
> The National Audit Office warned two years ago that many English councils were financially badly exposed after embarking on a £6.6bn borrowing spree to invest mainly in commercial property. Ministers have become increasingly nervous about the massive scale of loans taken out by a number of councils.
Oh the irony of ministers being nervous that councils have done exactly what they were told to do when the government stripped their budgets a decade ago: borrow and invest to fill the holes. Forced to act like private companies instead of public service providers, this is the result. Another shocking failure of hard right economics.
Right after they knocked down a few local businesses to build their cushty new Council Offices too.
Sad to believe that *checks notes* 12 years ago THE LAST LABOUR GOVERNMENT tragically plied the noble council of *checks notes again* Thurrock with the entire countries debt. Out of spite. – local Thurrock resident Barry Johnstone
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Where’s the guy that claimed the tories weren’t corrupt yesterday?
Why is the department of levelling up the one responding to this issue? Has the southeast really had an historical issue with lack of investment?
These tories, genuinely make me feel a mix of disbelief and real visceral sadness, I feel like I should love my country, but I look around at the state of things and I feel so sad, my kids will grow up in this. It shouldn’t be like this, why have we as a public allowed this infection, this cancer to so throughly blight our politics?
> The National Audit Office warned two years ago that many English councils were financially badly exposed after embarking on a £6.6bn borrowing spree to invest mainly in commercial property. Ministers have become increasingly nervous about the massive scale of loans taken out by a number of councils.
Oh the irony of ministers being nervous that councils have done exactly what they were told to do when the government stripped their budgets a decade ago: borrow and invest to fill the holes. Forced to act like private companies instead of public service providers, this is the result. Another shocking failure of hard right economics.
Right after they knocked down a few local businesses to build their cushty new Council Offices too.
Sad to believe that *checks notes* 12 years ago THE LAST LABOUR GOVERNMENT tragically plied the noble council of *checks notes again* Thurrock with the entire countries debt. Out of spite. – local Thurrock resident Barry Johnstone
Bloody labour councils