Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
- Posts: 4,010
#1
This puts DDC on the rack...............
This puts DDC on the rack.......
Local government to lose out again as chancellor unveils new round of cuts Spending review
for 2015-16 is expected to include 10% cut for local government budget and further round of job losses
George Osborne will try to put Labour on the back foot by challenging Ed Balls to accept the need for
further cuts after 2015-16.
Local government will again be the biggest loser on Wednesday as the chancellor, George Osborne,
unveils £11.5bn of overall spending cuts in 2015-16, an end to automatic pay progression, and a
further round of public-sector job losses.
Local government is expected to get a 10% budget cut in Wednesday's spending review. But, in what
will be the last set-piece announcement of spending cuts before the election, Osborne confirmed that
the budgets for health, schools and international aid would be protected
Paul Watkins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 9 Nov 2011
- Posts: 2,226
#2
Tell us something new Reg.
This is no surprise and is already factored in to forward projections.
Watty
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#3
i don't see a problem with the end of automatic pay rises, people in the private sector have seen pay freezes or even cuts to their wages, we are all in it together after all.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#4
# 2...do you mean less services are factored in ?
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
- Posts: 8,115
#5
The approximately 40% cut in council budgets was originally projected over a four year period starting 2011.
So this extra 10% budget cut equates to a 50% cut in council budgets.
Similar to the rise in chief executive salaries on the FTSE 100, only in the opposite direction!
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
#6
that's one of the problems alexander
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#7
kieth,thats not a problem,theres them and theres us no problem,we are all in it together.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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#8
I think if it could be proved that we were all in it together and fairness people might appreciate the issues more
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Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#9
The same procedure as last year, and the year before that ... and before that...
(chorus one and all): "the rich get richer.... "
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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#10
The gap between rich and poor continues to get wider
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Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#11
The Government has admitted that we will be running out of electricity supply, that the lights will go out.
Should we not be proclaiming this all over Eastern Europe: UK lights going out.
Otherwise, there will be millions more poor people flocking over, they will be squatting in London inside football stadiums, and refusing to go back.
The Police will be dealing with scores of such incidents daily.
They will all take the State to Court to have permanent residency given them, and each one will cost the State tens of thousands in Court cases and 5 star lodgings all paid for ... by us!
So when ARE the lights going out?
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#12
8.30 tonight alex,when will they come on again no one knows.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#13
the electricity issue is very serious there are already plans to ask businesses to cut their usage so that homes can keep their lights on.
the likely date?
general election year, afterwards of course11
our betters have conspired to milk popularity amongst the green coves by coming up with hair brained schemes to be "clean" leaving us with the real possibility of economic collapse.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
- Posts: 3,370
#14
Taxpayers will be paying uk business to shut down to help prevent power outs
The energy industry was soled of to become more efficient and lean.
In normal business you invest in plant and equipment in order to keep on top
What's happened in the energy business ,is shareholders have pocketed the cash instead of reinvesting in the business
So now the customers bills will be loader to pay for new capacity making uk PLC more inefficient and expensive,
The penny may even drop with Barry, when he finds himself sat in his office with a candle, and an electricity bill the sizes of a kings ransom.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#15
I may invest in a diesel generator.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
- Posts: 8,115
#16
Then we'll fight in the shade!
