Where are these so-called cuts?

[d000hg]

School budgets being cut where friends work, Business Link is closing isn't it too? People I know in council departments asked for voluntary redundancy.

[Old Greg]

16 libraries!

FFS, libraries are just somewhere for tramps to go and keep warm during the day.

Close the lot. If you want a book, buy one from Amazon. Bloody expect it all for free.

My point is that they could be closing them all and using the additional savings to pay me £600 per day.

[Clippy]

Lots of leavers, no new starts, piles of laptops and drawers full of returned VPN tokens (Government).

Makes a change - they normally 'store' these on trains.

[gingerjedi]

What evidence of cuts have you seen?

Lots of leavers, no new starts, piles of laptops and drawers full of returned VPN tokens (Government).

[EternalOptimist]

16 libraries!

FFS, libraries are just somewhere for tramps to go and keep warm during the day.

Close the lot. If you want a book, buy one from Amazon. Bloody expect it all for free.

Nonsense.

they go there to smell of wee AND to stay warm during the day

[DimPrawn]

16 libraries in my area are slated for closure.

16 libraries!

FFS, libraries are just somewhere for tramps to go and keep warm during the day.

Close the lot. If you want a book, buy one from Amazon. Bloody expect it all for free.

[Old Greg]

16 libraries in my area are slated for closure.

[OwlHoot]

There are no cuts and there never will be. It was just a ploy to buy time from the credit ratings agencies.

The main plan of letting high inflation rip the debt to nothingness at the expense of a worthless currency and destruction of private sector wealth, savings, standard of living and pensions is still going strong.

HTH

WHS

Anyone with savings in a bank or building society will be lambs led to the slaughter ...

(Unfortunately that includes my aged Ps! )

[DimPrawn]

There are no cuts and there never will be. It was just a ploy to buy time from the credit ratings agencies.

The main plan of letting high inflation rip the debt to nothingness at the expense of a worthless currency and destruction of private sector wealth, savings, standard of living and pensions is still going strong.

HTH

[Old Greg]

I've seen no evidence of these much talked about government cuts.

Where I live: bins still collected weekly, pavements swept daily, silly local council newspaper full of self puffery still delivered free once a week, town recently had all road markings refreshed, some new street furniture has appeared, local police station now open longer hours, more GPs at the local surgery than ever before.

Are these cuts real?

What evidence of cuts have you seen?

I am afraid they are cutting essentials like NHS contractors.

[Churchill]

Cuts are not instant - councils have to find savings over period of time.

The only instant cuts I saw locally in Birmingham is destruction of West Midlands regional agency that handled £300 mln to give local businesses, this was very fast and not a word of strikes from unions - they must be getting massive pay offs!

Tough sh!t comrade. It could be worse, you could've ended up in prison like certain other Ruski entrepreneurs

[Spacecadet]

Cuts are not instant - councils have to find savings over period of time.

The only instant cuts I saw locally in Birmingham is destruction of West Midlands regional agency that handled £300 mln to give local businesses, this was very fast and not a word of strikes from unions - they must be getting massive pay offs!

unions only strike when their members realise that they might have to keep up their end of the working for money arrangement

[eek]

The only instant cuts I saw locally in Birmingham is destruction of West Midlands regional agency that was SKA's only source of income and now I'm screwed.

FTFY

[AtW]

Cuts are not instant - councils have to find savings over period of time.

The only instant cuts I saw locally in Birmingham is destruction of West Midlands regional agency that handled £300 mln to give local businesses, this was very fast and not a word of strikes from unions - they must be getting massive pay offs!

[Platypus]

I've seen no evidence of these much talked about government cuts.

Where I live: bins still collected weekly, pavements swept daily, silly local council newspaper full of self puffery still delivered free once a week, town recently had all road markings refreshed, some new street furniture has appeared, local police station now open longer hours, more GPs at the local surgery than ever before.

Are these cuts real?

What evidence of cuts have you seen?