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Originally Posted by Damien
Councils have been pretty much screwed, whoever runs them, as they get lumbered with the cost of a lot of social care, but governments feel comfortable cutting their budgets as they don't get the blame.
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Spot on.
Cut backs to council funding started in 2010 and whilst central government is no longer making cutbacks, councils just don't have the wriggle room these days for efficiency savings that Reform UK and Old Boy have said they have.