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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
By snipping my words mid-sentence you've entirely changed its meaning. My sentence was about the impact of adult social care costs on councils.
Obviously, I'm very sorry about your mother in law.
Councils principally went bankrupt due to a 50% reduction in funding since 2010, the aforementioned hike in adult social care costs and punts on property designed to replace lost central government funding.
I don't pretend all the councils who went bankrupt were perfectly run (eg Woking with its property punts), but there simply isn't any fat left to cut. Reform UK will discover this when they take control of councils but most of Farage's words were more rhetoric and PR than anything else. They're not going to start adding to the real estate to ensure everyone is in five days a week, for example, as this would be too costly.
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One of the few threats the unions have left is to get all the staff turning up at the office, it works and it scares most local councils silly. My employer has cut office space dramatically and used the savings to balance the books for the last few years.