Quote Originally Posted by BigFatPie View Post
Informative article here about why councils, both Tory and Labour, are experiencing financial difficulties.

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/why-a...krupt-13018122
Great article, thanks for sharing.

Obviously, it's a lot more complicated than just blaming individual council mismanagement or the Tory cuts to councils serving poorer communities to give more money to richer ones, as Sunak openly boasted about in the campaign trail. Both are obviously major contributory factors. If it were just Tory cuts, then why isn't every council in trouble? If it were just individual mismanagement, why are there so many councils in trouble? And it's not as if all the councils in trouble are Labour-run... although, again, as Labour councils have had much bigger cuts than Tory councils, you'd expect more Labour than Tory councils to run into difficulties.