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For people who think the Tories weren't so bad

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RobinStrike · 03/09/2024 10:23

This is what the social landscape looks like after 14 years of Tory government. The cuts in local authority spending have ravaged local services. No one is going to save libraries and playgrounds while the choice is between them and adult social care.

weownit.org.uk/blog/destruction-last-14-years-numbers

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andymary · 03/09/2024 11:06

Can you do a breakdown of which constituency has had what public service cuts, and which party was in charge of said constituency - as you do know that the Tories didn't run every constituency right? Labour still ran a lot of the big councils... reduced the services and still managed to bankrupt them.

Also, a lot of those "destruction numbers" have valid reasons, did you even look at them? Take the schools for example, there's a big list of school closures on there, which looks really bad at first. But if you read them, it's due to them getting rebuilt/relocated with a brand new state of the art schools nearby instead.

WhistPie · 03/09/2024 11:12

And include in that, OP, the amount that central government funding was cut for each council, and how many of those councils had a marginal constituency as cuts were done as a punishment for not voting in the "correct" party to run the council.

RobinStrike · 03/09/2024 15:55

I'm aware the Tories didn't run every constituency, but the amount of funding allocated to local authorities was cut drastically. See these screenshots from the IFS report. Link to the whole report below.

ifs.org.uk/publications/conservatives-and-economy-2010-24

For people who think the Tories weren't so bad
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