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Interesting news snippet on local radio in Surrey. People are to polled on whether they will accept a 15% increase in council tax to fund the social care budget in the county as there is a large shortfall on the budget (for 2017-118 I presume).

My answer would be to quote DCFC Army verbatim. **** Off.

But it makes you wonder about the "affluent south" argument. If Surrey, which is supposedly a well to do commuter county has no money for care, what must it be like elsewhere in the country? Or is Surrey like Florida - all the greys have fled here and so we need a higher care budget?

I blame the EU myself. Must be all those eastern Europeans heading for Surrey to milk the budget.

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Interesting news snippet on local radio in Surrey. People are to polled on whether they will accept a 15% increase in council tax to fund the social care budget in the county as there is a large shortfall on the budget (for 2017-118 I presume).

My answer would be to quote DCFC Army verbatim. **** Off.

But it makes you wonder about the "affluent south" argument. If Surrey, which is supposedly a well to do commuter county has no money for care, what must it be like elsewhere in the country? Or is Surrey like Florida - all the greys have fled here and so we need a higher care budget?

I blame the EU myself. Must be all those eastern Europeans heading for Surrey to milk the budget.

15%!!!! Isn't that really a case of...'well we - the Government of now approaching seven years - have cut services to the bone so although we're against raising income tax - not the Tory way - we'll do it this way, abdicate all responsibility and set one section of society against another'? Or am I being too cynical? Maybe some of that £350,000,000 could be redirected to Surrey each week, though Christ knows how much they'll need in poorer parts of the country.

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15%!!!! Isn't that really a case of...'well we - the Government of now approaching seven years - have cut services to the bone so although we're against raising income tax - not the Tory way - we'll do it this way, abdicate all responsibility and set one section of society against another'? Or am I being too cynical? Maybe some of that £350,000,000 could be redirected to Surrey each week, though Christ knows how much they'll need in poorer parts of the country.

The local authority seem to be suggesting that central government funding cuts have been so severe that they cannot afford to spend what they wish to. In fairness to central government, they would say that though, wouldn't they?