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No more lollipop ladies, close paddling pools and turning off streetlights: How budget cutting BCP Council proposes to save millions

This will be coming to your area in one shape or another.  A few items below, with more in the pipeline as they still have a £12m gap. 

No America trade deal. Still, I was reading, a possibility of an India deal next year, which will fix everything. 

Community Safety Accreditation Scheme (Save £270,000) – They aim to remove community safety officers from Poole Town Centre, Christchurch Town Centre and Boscombe.

Monitoring CCTV (Save £49,000) – Reduce live monitoring of the cameras by 15-30 per cent and to seek support from partner agencies to fund the service. This could mean cameras will no longer be watched by staff at off-peak times.
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Switching off street lighting (Save £68,000) - Turn off streetlights after midnight to 6am on quieter residential roads within the Poole area.

School Crossing Patrol (Save £12,000) - Remove school crossing patrols from locations that have existing crossing facilities and remove school crossing patrols from locations that, following a survey, do not meet the threshold for a patrol.

https://www.dorset.live/news/dorset-news/bcp-council-savings-budget-cuts...

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Dnnnnnn replied to hawkinspeter | 1 year ago
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Brexit has given an extra shove to the UK's gradual slide over the past 15 years. Other countries are facing similar issues - but Global Britain is just that bit more World Class at going steadily backwards.
It's interesting (in a depressing way) that even the Permanent Secretary to the Treasury through the Osborne years now thinks maybe we could made better use of near-zero interest rates of much of that time, presumably to invest in infrastructure, social housing, skills, innovation - all of which would have generated sustainable positive economic, social and (if we chose) environmental returns over decades. Instead, we have living standards going backwards and 139,000 children in England in temporary accommodation.
Merry Christmas!

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hawkinspeter replied to Dnnnnnn | 1 year ago
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Dnnnnnn wrote:

Brexit has given an extra shove to the UK's gradual slide over the past 15 years. Other countries are facing similar issues - but Global Britain is just that bit more World Class at going steadily backwards.
It's interesting (in a depressing way) that even the Permanent Secretary to the Treasury through the Osborne years now thinks maybe we could made better use of near-zero interest rates of much of that time, presumably to invest in infrastructure, social housing, skills, innovation - all of which would have generated sustainable positive economic, social and (if we chose) environmental returns over decades. Instead, we have living standards going backwards and 139,000 children in England in temporary accommodation.
Merry Christmas!

Oh well, at least the NHS is now thriving with the extra Brexit money given to it…

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jaymack replied to Dnnnnnn | 1 year ago
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If only there had been someone or some group of people willing at the time to suggest that utilising zero % interest rates to invest in the public realm would have been a wise use of public money. Oh, hold on a minute...

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David9694 | 1 year ago
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jaymack | 1 year ago
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The local MP is Sir Robert Syms, Conservative. He and his cohorts are to blame not as they'd wish you to believe the wokarati, the LBGT community or those arriving on small boats. Use your votes wisely at the next election and vote tactically to get these awful people away from the levers of power

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chrisonabike replied to jaymack | 1 year ago
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jaymack wrote:

The local MP is Sir Robert Syms, Conservative.

Are you insinuating that such a dignitary from the Nasty Party is unlikely to be an immigrant (or child of same), of non-heterosexual orientation or trans ... or even (clutches pearls) a vegan?!

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hawkinspeter replied to chrisonabike | 1 year ago
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chrisonabike wrote:

Are you insinuating that such a dignitary from the Nasty Party is unlikely to be an immigrant (or child of same), of non-heterosexual orientation or trans ... or even (clutches pearls) a vegan?!

It's not unknown for children of immigrants to gain success with the Tories, but they also seem the most likely to blame refugees for everything. It's very much climb the ladder and pull it up after yourself so no-one else can benefit.

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Rendel Harris replied to hawkinspeter | 1 year ago
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You've got a generation raised on the welfare state
Enjoyed all the benefits and did just great
But as soon as they were settled as the richest of the rich
They kicked away the ladder, told the rest of us that life's a bitch...

- Frank Turner, "Thatcher Fucked the Kids"
 

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Eton Rifle replied to Rendel Harris | 1 year ago
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Exactly.

The transfer of wealth to the boomers from subsequent cohorts is astonishing. It's well worth reading The Pinch by David Willetts (yes, he's a Tory but one with some brains, unlike the party's current incarnation).

It makes for some shocking reading.

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Rich_cb replied to Eton Rifle | 1 year ago
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It doesn't stop with the boomers, the older portions of gen X are virtually indistinguishable from the boomer generation in terms of wealth etc.

Until we get some redistribution of that generational wealth gap the ability if the country to pay for necessary public services will be sorely diminished.

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chrisonabike replied to Rich_cb | 1 year ago
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Rich_cb wrote:

Until we get some redistribution of that generational wealth gap the ability if the country to pay for necessary public services will be sorely diminished.

From your suggestion elsewhere - isn't an inheritance tax an attempt to address part of that though?

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Rich_cb replied to chrisonabike | 1 year ago
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It is but it doesn't work particularly well.

With the right accountant it's possible to avoid paying any inheritance tax at all, the wealthier you are the less likely you are to pay it. See the Duke of Westminster as a good example.

A reformed council tax would be essentially unavoidable, whoever owned the property would be liable for the tax be they a normal individual or an obscure blind trust registered in a tax haven.

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