Walterp
Member
- Location
- Pembrokeshire
Two simple and related points about farm income support, worth making for those who permit their prejudices to blind their logic.
Local authorities across England have either effectively become insolvent this year (Northamptonshire, to be followed by East Sussex) or are formulating 'core offer' budgets - limited to carrying out legally-enforceable duties - to forestall insolvency.
The two points are:
1. the harbingers are Conservative-run, which will reprise the destruction of the myth of Tory economic competence once again, and hence shove the pendulum of 'first past the post' UK politics well into the red;
2. it is only 'forestall' - councils’ collective funding shortfall will reach nearly £6bn by next year.
Obviously, in the wider view, the 'core offer' will not, in future, be able to include farm income support of any description.
Local authorities across England have either effectively become insolvent this year (Northamptonshire, to be followed by East Sussex) or are formulating 'core offer' budgets - limited to carrying out legally-enforceable duties - to forestall insolvency.
The two points are:
1. the harbingers are Conservative-run, which will reprise the destruction of the myth of Tory economic competence once again, and hence shove the pendulum of 'first past the post' UK politics well into the red;
2. it is only 'forestall' - councils’ collective funding shortfall will reach nearly £6bn by next year.
Obviously, in the wider view, the 'core offer' will not, in future, be able to include farm income support of any description.